Accidents do not "happen".
They are caused.
However whether they can be foreseen and planned for is another thing.
BUT there is always a reason.

Typical ACF propaganda.

It is surprising that the author does not call for all boat/ship traffic to be banned from the Reef, given that humans are known to cause accidents.

The author is no doubt celebrating the fact that South Australia became the first state to reach zero emissions yesterday.

Certainly all boat and car engines and farm fertiliser should be banned and removed from Australia's eastern seaboard.

Oh the reef needs to be saved. In the 1970's we were told it would not exist by 2000. Yawn. What a waste of tax payer money. I take it that the ACF are on the gravy train.

Will any of these people ever grow up. Obviously this clown, Basha Stasak has never seen the reef, or he could never write this garbage.

Well, lets say no honest human with any knowledge of the reef could write such garbage. I guess such people are in short supply around the Australian Conservation Foundation.

I spent many years running tourist reef experience trips, & also many taking southern fishermen out for a few days fishing. I know some of it as well as the professional fisherman know it, & that is a damn sight better than any of Townsville's researchers, or noisy activists from rip off merchants like the Australian Conservation Foundation.

I also spent years cruising many of the Pacific islands & atolls, & building jetties on the reefs for plantations & villages.

There are dozens of lovely little reefs in the islands, but nothing that equals the scope, grandeur or overall quality of the Great Barrier Reef.

Of course in over a thousand kilometres of reef, formed by many hundred individual reefs, anyone can find a few spots under strain. Inside any lagoon you will be able to find patches to provide pictures that show some poor coral, but over all our reef is in great health.

It really is time these people were charged with conspiring to defraud the Australian public with this rubbish.

For the last 50 years I have been hearing "the reef is doomed". I have dived all around the New Guinea and the Pacific. Reefs that were totally wiped out by a cyclone were flourishing a few years later. The great barrier reef is no different. Areas I dived on that had been damaged were fine on my next visit. It is time that these ignorant, lie peddling, so called conservation groups and rent seeking marine biologists were told where to get off. They are foolish in the extreme thinking we can control the climate and the vast forces of nature.