Isn Coral Calcium Damaging the Reefs?
Damaging Coral Reefs: NO! You are not the only one concerned. There are millions ahead of you in the environmental lineup, including millions of Japanese, who get offended when you suggest they would participate in ecological damage by endorsing a reef product. The truth is that all over the world when the reefs weather and disintegrate, the coral sand (or coral calcium) is washed out into the ocean by wave action. In Okinawa this coral sand is carried by the ocean currents about 4 miles out to sea where it gets deposited in deep channels. It is carefully vacuumed up and any potential losses are carried further out to sea, away from the reefs by the ocean currents. Harvesting the coral is both supervised and endorsed by the Japanese Government. Since the reefs are treasured by the Japanese Government no harvesting is done directly on the reefs themselves. The work is done at a very safe distance from the reefs and if by chance the harvesting did somehow damage any of the reefs (even if
