{"id":580,"date":"2011-12-19T17:11:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T22:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/?p=580"},"modified":"2021-05-19T07:09:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T11:09:14","slug":"coralations-sea-dream-cruise-ships-reported-anchoring-off-usfws-refuge-cay-of-culebrita-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/2011\/12\/19\/coralations-sea-dream-cruise-ships-reported-anchoring-off-usfws-refuge-cay-of-culebrita-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Coralations: SEA DREAM CRUISE SHIPS REPORTED ANCHORING OFF USFWS REFUGE CAY of CULEBRITA…again"},"content":{"rendered":"
One of the Sea Dream ships left Ensonada Honda Sat., Dec 17th, 2011, but did not head directly to the USFWS Refuge Cay Saturday night. \u00a0We are not sure where it anchored over-night.<\/div>\n

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One of the vessels was reported anchored at the refuge cay on Sun., Dec 18th, 2011. \u00a0Based on yesterday’s report, it appears that despite the public out-cry, USFWS continues to issue federal permits for the Sea Dream Cruise Ships to disembark passengers on the public National Wildlife Refuge Cay of Culebrita. \u00a0 \u00a0There is no mooring or pier at the cay – only Critical Habitat listed sea grasses and corals.<\/div>\n
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Sea Dream markets the Culebrita stop as “off the beaten path<\/em>” tourism – as this unsustainable brand of tourism beats Culebra’s corals and sea grasses to death.<\/div>\n

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The ships obviously cannot control wind direction and swing. \u00a0When not directly anchoring atop corals and sea grass, easterly and south eastery winds swing the boat so the stern faces the reef. As their huge propellors engage to make way – \u00a0sand and debris known as “prop wash” sand blast\u00a0what’s left<\/em> of these Culebrita corals. \u00a0 \u00a0The Sea Dream disembarks passengers to the cay off speeding zodiacs, and provides wave runners to passengers which disturb and threaten the Caribbeans few remaining sea turtles and manatees. \u00a0Photos of corals damaged as anchor passed over them were submitted to NOAA. \u00a0Like with the mud impacting the reefs of Flamenco Beach – the NOAA Restoration Center made a site visit but took no action.<\/div>\n

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But wait – there’s more….<\/div>\n
Sea Dream captains are environmentally reckless throughout the Caribbean. \u00a0On Culebrita we have reported the Sea Dream vessels to the U.S. Coast Guard for reckless endangerment of their passengers as they anchor these vessels in waters marked on nautical charts as<\/div>\n
“Danger: Area Littered with Unexploded Ordinance<\/a>.” \u00a0(bombs)<\/div>\n
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Above you can see what the Sea Dream Yachts (both I and II) are doing<\/div>\n
as they shore\u00a0anchor on the beach at beautiful Prickly Pear Beach in the BVIs.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Multiple written complaints have been issued to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. EPA, and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – all with jurisdictional authority to stop this permit, environmental impact and threat to passengers!<\/strong><\/div>\n

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Sea Dream Culebrita<\/a><\/div>\n
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NOTICIAS – NEWS PLAYA FLAMENCO \u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Primera Hora, lunes, 5 de diciembre de 2011<\/strong><\/div>\n
Siguen los da\u00f1os ambientales en playa Flamenco<\/a><\/div>\n
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Primera Hora, jueves, 8 de diciembre de 2011<\/strong><\/div>\n

DRNA investigarla supuesto movimiento ilegal de terreno en Culebra<\/a><\/p>\n

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CONTACT INFORMATION:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Edwin Mu\u00f1iz,<\/p>\n

Field Supervisor<\/p>\n

United States Fish and Wildlife Service<\/p>\n

Boqueron Field Office<\/p>\n

P.O. Box 491,<\/p>\n

Boquer\u00f3n, Puerto Rico 00622<\/p>\n

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Jack Arnold<\/p>\n

Deputy Assistant Regional Director<\/p>\n

United States Fish and Wildlife Service<\/p>\n

Regional Office<\/p>\n

1975 Century Boulevard, Suite 400<\/p>\n

Atlanta, Georgia 30345-3319<\/p>\n

Lisamarie Carrubba<\/p>\n

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<\/p>\n

Protected Resources<\/p>\n

Caribbean Field Office<\/p>\n

Cabo Rojo, PR 00622<\/p>\n

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Erik Hawk<\/p>\n

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<\/p>\n

Protected Resources<\/p>\n

Southeast Regional Office<\/p>\n

St. Petersburg, FL 33701<\/p>\n

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Carl Soderberg, Director<\/p>\n

U.S. EPA Region II<\/p>\n

Caribbean Environmental Protection Division<\/p>\n

Edif Centro Europa Apt 417<\/p>\n

1492 Avenida Ponce de Leon<\/p>\n

San Juan PR 00907-4127<\/p>\n

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Judith Enck<\/p>\n

Regional Administrator<\/p>\n

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency<\/p>\n

EPA Region 2<\/p>\n

290 Broadway<\/p>\n

New York, NY 10007-1866<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the Sea Dream ships left Ensonada Honda Sat., Dec 17th, 2011, but did not head directly to the USFWS Refuge Cay Saturday night. \u00a0We are not sure where it anchored over-night.   One of the vessels was reported anchored at the refuge cay on Sun., Dec 18th, 2011. \u00a0Based on yesterday’s report, it … Continue reading Coralations: SEA DREAM CRUISE SHIPS REPORTED ANCHORING OFF USFWS REFUGE CAY of CULEBRITA…again<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}