A team of divers has found that corals near Kampung Salang beach in Malaysia have changed colour, a signal that they are dying. ‘The cabbage corals, brain corals and staghorn corals have turned white,’ said Kids Scuba director and scuba educator Syed Abdul Rahman Syed Hassan. He said the underwater temperature had also changed. ‘In my numerous dives here previously, the temperature was between 25 deg C and 27 deg C. However, in my two days of underwater discovery, the temperature was at 32 deg C,’ he said. His team dived 26m deep and about 300m from the Kampung Salang beach on the first day. The following day, they were at the same depth at the Pulau Batu Malang coral site, which is 200m from Pulau Tulai. His forecast was that the corals in Tioman Island would die soon due to the warmer weather.
‘TIOMAN CORALS DYING’
‘TIOMAN CORALS DYING’
