renting jet ski's on the beach

[booger]

Well said! I too wanted to ride the jet skis, but will reserve that for a lake somewhere. The damage to the reef will change things up forever, and not in a good way. I want my Booger to be able to enjoy later in her life what I have the pleasure to enjoy now.

Jet ski's are overlooked for the sake of "tourism", even though they are extremely dangerous and harmful to the environment. Negril remains subject to hydrocarbon discharges from the high and increasing density of inshore motor boat traffic. Each motor boat or, "jet ski" which leaves a wake behind on the surface also leaves behind a small oil slick and a turbid plume of resuspended fine-grained bottom sediments. Pollution causes damageto coral reefs due to poisons and heavy metals. Once these sediments and poisons have entered the coral through polyps, the polyps die and without the polyps no new corals can grow leading to complete destruction on the coral.

It is imperative that we continue to raise awareness and to inspire others to respect our precious planet. As we continue to devise new ways to mitigate humans’ effects onour planet, we owe it to ourselves to compassionately educate those around us.

[MiShell]

Thank you Rhodesresort for caring about the environment.

If we want to continue to enjoy the beauty of Negril and the entire world for that matter we all need to be more environmentally aware.

As a healthy 37 year old I developed an illness called Multiple Chemical Sensitivity or Environmental Illess or Toxic Induced Loss of Tolerance (TILT). This illness is growing in numbers and now even children are affected by it. This illness is caused by chemicals in the environment including petrochemicals. It can be a one time large exposure or just normal life exposure. There was no warning and it is extremely life altering/restricting.

I enjoy the sea water as it is cleansing and I function much better in Negril...adding toxic chemicals takes away from this experience.

This illness can happen to anyone and will continue to grow in numbers until we make some major changes to reduce our day-to-day exposure to 100's of chemicals.