Mactan Channel - A Virtual Toilet Bowl - Please Help!

[brownprose]

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When I was a kid, my dad used to bring us to Opon church on a barge back then. I could still remember how flying fishes glided like bows that came out of nowhere as we crossed our way to Muelle Osmeña. I recall there were rocks, seabrains, corals, jelly fishes, urchins and starfishes so visible even from the deck.

Unfortunately, you don't see them now. Much of the life and beauty below the magnificent channel is lost now. If you haven't tried a ferry at Pier 3 or Muelle Osmeña, get yourself a ride and you will know what I'm talking. The sea is murky. Garbage and animal corpses are a usual site and the smell is just disgusting as you approach or embark Pier 3.

Some of the garbage reach as far as Olango and at the coastlines of many popular resorts. Cordova folks, resort-owners are complaining nga " daghan gyung hugawan nga mga taga sugbo kay gihimung basurahan ang dagat."

It's never too late to do a clean up...you only need to tell your friends what's happening. Or if you have friends sa Cebu Port Authority ask them to enforce strictly against the dumping or throwing of trash from passengers. Diha sa Carbon pod...many of their carcasses are thrown diha sa dagat as well as mga innards sa karne, plastic cups and other non-biodegrable stuff.

Let me know what you think here and let's help make Cebu a tourist and environment-friendly place.

[salbahis]

TRUE, TRUE, even ako mag hatod ako langa, mag ferry man jud ko, pwerte jud bahoa diha sa pier 3, hubakon nalang gud ko usahay, as-in!, i hope our port authority will do something!, an also to all people of opon, please be responsible, not just to our water even to our environment as a whole!, cleanliness is next to godliness...

[brownprose]

amen to that bro!

[mata_hari]

ako nahan man jud ko mag ferry kay fresco lagi kaysa PUJ, nitagam na jud to katong kita ko ug patay na iro na butirik na kaayo iya tiyan and mata sa uod.

then baho na jud kaayo. bitaw. as in. wala diay gi hire na janitor ang government para lang sa dagat. i think it would not be a bad idea.

[shoeless_rebel]

so what are we gonna do about it? i have some friends from reef check and surfers against sewage. ni try ko ug discuss ani but istorya raman kadaghanan... wala man mu take ug action. i just do my part... i don't throw garbage in the ocean and i try to use non biodegradable materials @ a minimum.

[brownprose]

so what are we gonna do about it? i have some friends from reef check and surfers against sewage. ni try ko ug discuss ani but istorya raman kadaghanan... wala man mu take ug action. i just do my part... i don't throw garbage in the ocean and i try to use non biodegradable materials @ a minimum.

Bai what you've done is good enough. We only need to tell our friends about it and let them help spread the word. If you have contacts in the government you can tell them about it. Or in the media, you can suggest to come up with a story about it until it reaches wide public attention.

[brownprose]

By the way, I saw a great deal of oil refuse this morning probably and intentionally dumped by one of the boats there, so sad.

[LytSlpr]

the question is funding, kung naa man gani pang one time photo ops ra. probably inig ka earth day lang.

lisod i-sustain kay corrupt atong government.

[Godfather]

How about writing a letter to the editor of Sunstar, The Freeman and the Cebu Inquirer? This issue is much too critical for Cebu and our children's future to be left unresolved immediately. Let's all compose the letter, putting our combined wits together and with the permission from the owners of istorya, sign it with Istorya.Net forum members.

[mata_hari]

Ok sad kaayo na na pamaagi nimo Godfather... how about enticing the Legislature to make a law na as in pang reclusion perpetua ang mo trash sa dagat. irreversible na jud na ang damage sa dagat, specially kanang naa sa mga pier... murag black as in canal black na jud ang dagat.