I went diving two days in Ishigaki. The dives themselves were pretty cool and I saw a lot of stuff I‘ve never seen before.
What I didn‘t like however is how the 2 diving schools I‘ve been with and almost every other diver I‘ve seen underwater just didn‘t care about the nature down there at all. Standing on corals, holding on to them (and even breaking some), lifting up rocks and picking up baby crabs hiding under it to show them around, shoving the flashlight into the fishe‘s faces, etc.
I really thought that japanese people respected nature a lot but now I have the feeling that that stops at 0 meters over sea level.
Maybe these 2 trips (and almost all other schools I‘ve seen down there) were just a bad example. What do you think?
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