Humans are really stupid animals....
We should enjoy what we get to see, and we have the luxury to fix these moments for others.
Beeing an instructor, it was allways a have to do for me, to show people a bit about the underwater world, and to tell them how lucky we are, simply to have a chance watching this real.
I have seen divers / photographers watching a scene, and while swimming away kicking the animal from ist original place....
Divers, taking a pic of a pygmy in a fan, and kicking the next fan with their fins, so if there was a pygmy, it would have thought this will be the end of the world...
For the "best shot" putting animals to places they would never go... And riscing the live of that poor thing...
It looks on land, like there is only me, than me and than, after a long break maybe something else...
Under water without witness, it can be even worse...
So ist our job to save of the underwaterworld as much as possible.
To tell people what stupid things they were doing, even when this means to get unfriendly answers.
Who else than a photographer archieves things there???
If you visit some places for years, you see the changes. And we can document it, and tell the people why...
Sorry for the Long message,
but i think ist time to give the "blue" part of the planet a bit back of what we take....
Regards,
Wolfgang