A video clip speaks even more...
seacil@labrador (sml) from BeachBum on Vimeo.
seacil@labrador (HD) from BeachBum on Vimeo.
Here lies another 'dead' seacil from what seems to be a poorly thought out project with questionable positive results if any at all. If the seacils are appearing on the intertidal, should we wonder how the corals on the reef surrounding the seacils have fared whilst the seacils were breaking up?
It is reasonable to consider that a seacil being dislodged would act like a elephant carrying a sledgehammer in a fine china shop. What then of the natural reef that existed before the seacil project?
With the cumulative effect of the neverending waves on the regurgitated seacil, more bits of plastic, concrete and netting will get dislodged and distributed along what used to be a gem of a natural shore ... in fact one of Singapore's first 'protected' nature reserves! And it was because of the rocky shore and seagrass lagoon that Labrador is so unique.
If the seacil in encased in concrete, can a section of it float up? Or was the 'regurgitated' seacil section brought up and left abandoned where we see it now?
Perhaps the institution of higher education which installed it can have it removed immediately. The seagrass bed should not be used as a dumping ground however 'unresultant' the project is. And perhaps it is time for a formal official review on the project?
More on the seacil project :
http://wildfilms.blogspot.com/2007/10/debris-on-labrador-explained.html
http://wildfilms.blogspot.com/2007/11/updates-on-large-concrete-slabs-on.html
http://tomorrow.sg/archives/2007/11/26/artifical_reef_at_labrador_an_up.html
http://jus-dive.blogspot.com/2007/11/labrador-park-seashore-environment-with.html
http://jus-dive.blogspot.com/2007/12/is-labrador-talk-really-that-cheap.html
http://www.asiaone.com/News/The%2BStraits%2BTimes/Story/A1Story20071126-38347.html
http://www.innovationmagazine.com/innovation/volumes/v7n1/feature3.shtml
http://www.wildsingapore.com/news/20070910/071029-1.htm
http://wildfilms.blogspot.com/2007/12/can-labrador-survive.html
http://reddotbeachbum.blogspot.com/2007/12/labrador-hope-rebirth-and-waiting.html
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