Scuba Diver Australasia Magazine + ALERTDIVER Issue 3/2015 | Page 6

FROM THE EDITOR CHINESE Question: Would you rather be living in a time some hundreds of years ago when the seas were full and fecund and soupy with fish, but without the gear or techniques that would let you dive them, or, would you rather live in the postCousteau era, with the ability to get down there, but with less to see when you do? e-Magazine Tough call, but there really is possibly no better time to be alive than right now. Why? Because right now we have a chance to be superheroes! But I’m talking more Avengers than Superman: Our power lies in the collective. It’s old news that the ocean is bearing the brunt of our onslaught on the environment. We know that fish stocks are collapsing, that rising temperatures and acidification are killing our coral reefs, and that our plastic addiction is suffocating ѡ