CORAL REEFS IN HAWAI’I ARE DYING The Truth about the War Games in New Hawaiian Marine Sanctuary Expansion
“Did you know the MARINE SANCTUARY at Pupukea along the north shore of Oahu completely died within the last three years! And 30% of the coral reefs around Kauai are already dead or dying at an alarming rate of 4 inches a week and at that rate all the coral reefs in Hawaii will be dead in 10 years. Does anyone care?” Marine biologist, Terry Lilley, made the above comments in one of his videos and in posts he published on Facebook August 28, 2016. He lives on Kauai, is an independent scientist and has had a life long love of the sea and marine health, has spent his life dedicated making under-water videos for the purpose of teaching children about our ocean, when he made an alarming discovery. HAWAIIAN CORAL REEFS ARE DYING. (The pictures and quotes below are excerpts he published on facebook reprinted with permission - emphasis added) “The blue rice corals are the first to die anywhere there is a stress to the reef because they have the most surface area and a thin skeleton. But in Kauai the blue rice corals died all up and down the coastline including places down the Na Pali Coast where there is no run off, pollution, cesspools, sewage or towns! Just pure clean water and the US Navy blasting the reefs with electrical current and sonar! I have a report from the Navy dive team that WARNS them to stay away from the Navy ships underwater as they will get electrocuted! Each ship puts out a constant electrical discharge into the sea to protect the ship from enemies and corrosion. It is enough electricity to instantly stop the heart of a human or whale. These ships patrol our coastline constantly. This is a direct assault on our coral reefs and marine life and can easily be proven.” This is his insight on the Hawaiian Islands Marine Sanctuary Expansion: “Yes to a larger marine protected area to save our marine species and cultural sites... But YES to using the marine sanctuary as massive testing grounds for the US Navy to kill the very species we are trying to protect makes no sense! The Navy microwave, sonic and electronic war being launched out of Hawaii and tested all throughout the marine sanctuary is killing more sea life than the US nuclear bombs did! What kind of craziness is this?... Do you (we) really want our marine life protected or do you want the military to just "claim" that they are protecting our marine life?
Bruce Hay from PMRF claims he is a "fierce protector" of our marine life. The truth is that the entire reef died due to his Navy operations! “What good does a marine sanctuary do when it is set aside as a testing ground for the US military microwave and electronic war testing? A marine sanctuary is designed to protect marine life not the marines! Do you know that the very same people who proposed the expansion of the sanctuary also funded billions of dollars for the Navy and the military contractors to use the sanctuary for underwater Navy electronic war testing grounds! The so called "protection" of the NW Hawaiian Islands coral reefs is just a joke if the US Navy is allowed to use it as their private war testing grounds. Don't celebrate (this marine sanctuary expansion) yet as absolutely nothing is being preserved until we get the US military out of the so called Marine Sanctuary!...We need to hold these politicians liable for REALITY and ACTIONS not their hollow words! Words and boundaries mean nothing to a dead reef that was there for millions of years before us humans showed up!"