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Grant Downie had been out in the Pacific for about 10 minutes when he realized he could no longer see from his right eye.
Second-generation advertisers were sitting on the waves more than ever looking for their fish – the precious red water lilies they sought in their place uni, or gonads reading sushi. But red fur, which lives in tropical rain forests, was difficult to find in recent years. And each other deep foot forces too much nitrogen to enter the bloodstream, increasing the risk of a malignant tumor in the body or brain.
This time, with half of his vision a black wall, he was afraid to push him too far. Although his right eye returned to work after 20 minutes, the 33-year-old thought he had ended up with dangerous dives, even though the decision could have devastated him.
“I knew it was mine,” Downie said last month, about seven months after the incident, which took place on the Fort Bragg coast in Northern California. “Maybe I’ll go down to 65 feet, but I don’t know if I’m going too deep. It’s still growing for the guys who are still trying to get going.”
Anyone who relies on the California jungle for their livelihood can tell you that something is wrong under the Pacific Ocean. It is not just a small number of urchin species that are declining. There are no large, fast-growing, salty trees that once provided food, shelter, and a safe haven for the many species of marine life, from sea otters to abalone, rockfish, and brittle stars. Where the smallest kelp or kelp once a bull is disturbed, all the rainforests have been destroyed by another animal: purple leather.
People sometimes refer to purple shells as “sea urchins”, due to extreme hunger and their ability to survive. (They can live a “hungry” life for many years.) Similar to spiky, pom-poms poms-size, brown leathers are impressive, destroying everything from plankton to dead fish. But they are very fond of kelp, and they can chew the strings that attach to any strings in the sea.
“Barrenness” as some call it, can stretch for hundreds of miles, scientists said earlier this year as some forests in northern California have suffered 95% damage since 2012.
Kelp is an important part of the West Coast marine environment. Like the world’s forests, kelp (especially purple algae) is essential for deep carbon dioxide, converting sunlight and carbon dioxide into leaves and canopies. But unlike trees, which repel large amounts of carbon dioxide, they are dead they have the potential sinking to the bottom of the sea, giving it a natural appearance. With the kelp forests transformed into nubs and the famine-stricken people waiting at the bottom of the ocean, its movement was severely disrupted.
“We are losing the most important systems, which means losing fish, losing fun, losing too much air, losing side protection,” said Fiorenza Micheli, a marine expert and director at Stanford’s Center for Ocean Solutions. “That’s like throwing away a rainforest – unless we see it.”
Other parts of the West Coast have seen as much as An increase of 10,000 percent in purple skins over five years. A large number of “purps,” as various traders call them, have disrupted areas along California and southern Oregon. As a result, many kelp lovers – commercial fishermen, amateur swimmers, swimmers, and scientists, to name a few – are eager to take their purple weapons into the sea, often with hammers and pits.