Our Shocked and Appalled Readers

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Our January issue had two articles that shocked readers so much, they took to pen and keyboard to write us and express their feelings.

"Wreck Diving for Beginners" summarized an article in United Airlines' Hemispheres magazine, in which writer Jim Shepard joyfully described taking his two inexperienced children, ages 15 and 20, on dives inside the constricted, unlit spaces of the WWII wrecks in Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon -- prior to that adventure, they'd only made four dives each, to a maximum depth of 40 feet.

In "Big Trouble at Blue Heron Bridge," tempers flared high after online reports that Moody Gardens, an aquarium in Galveston, TX, sent a group of professional divers to the Bridge, a popular dive site in Riviera Beach, FL, with collecting devices, a truck full of holding tanks, and legal permits to collect 4,300 animals during the span of a week last October....

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