| Several of my friends saw the same dugong on a trip on the Excel last summer. I didn't, unfortunately. Let's hope he or she soon finds a mate and produces some little dugongs,but it's going to take some searching.
I've also snorkelled with the manatees in northern Florida (Crystal River) and agree with every word Bren says. Fortunately, they don't seem to be nearly as likely to become extent as the Pacific and Indian Ocean dugongs.
Of course, man has already suceeded in wiping out one species of seacow, the Stella seacow (I think that's the right name) in western Canada and northwest USA. If I remember correctly, it became extinct only about 40 years after the first Europeans sailors arrived there.
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"From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free." - Jacques Cousteau |