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Title: Safety Issues in Marine Parks
Authors: Ramli, Azahari
Aziz, Zulkufli
Mustafa, Munauwar
Ismail, Mohd Azril
Ahmad, Shuhymee
Talib, Jeffry Azhar
Issue Date: 2016
Publisher: IMBRe
Abstract: Everyone is happy. Yeah, everyone is happy. At last, the planned for a snorkelling activity would be materialised. They should be there two year ago, but as everyone has job commitments, the plan has been postponed for several times, to be exact six times. As Dr Aatan reminded his colleagues, “We are not cancelling, but just set another date”. Dr. Aatan is an outdoor personality, loves nature and is an advisor to students’ Kembara Club at a university where he is lecturing. He has been to Palau Lara for snorkelling several times, but none of his close friends reach there yet. Among his friends, Ahmad Busu is the most excited for the trip. “This is the sixth times we cancel…” as he mumbled to Dr. Aatan, when the trip was cancelled last time due to urgent work commitment of the other friend. Ahmad Busu felt frustrated. He already applied leave from the university and has already prepared the necessary gears for snorkelling. Ahmad Busu, Najib, Maarof and Dr. Yop are Dr. Aatan close friends. They are academics by professions. In addition to close colleagues, there are also the Kembara Club’s advisors. They have involved in numerous adventures projects, taking students into jungles, hilly areas and isolated islands for camping. They and Kembara Club’s students were also involved in cleaning up projects of houses in east coast states, which experienced huge flood in November 2014. They share the offices on the same floor. Always spend their free time together. Ahmad Busu, Dr. Yop and Dr. Aatan are about the same age, except Najib, who are six years older. Maarof is the youngest, three years different from Dr. Aatan. Dr. Aatan always tell his friends about the beauty and preserved marine corals at Pulau Lara. He plans to take all of them enjoying the underwater views of gazetted Marine Park. On 5 November 2015 morning, they departed from Kuala Nibong jetty. The boat carried 50 passengers. “Many foreigners, one… two… three…22”, Maarof started counting and informed the final number of foreigners to his friends. Dr. Yop smiled as he observed the behaviour of his friends. “Keep you volume low brother”, Dr. Yop whispered to Maarof. During the journey, Ahmad Busu was seen having conversations with foreign tourists, Dr. Aatan checking somethings on its Apple and Dr. Yop was talking to the Kuala Nibong Lara Ferry’s staff. Meanwhile, Najib just relaxing, enjoying the scenery along the journey. Najib acts as an informal treasury for the group and also for the Kembara Club. Due to his connections and coming from rich family backgrounds, he is able to provide financial arrangement and funding to the Club activities. After 45 minutes, the boat anchored about 100 meter from the island. All the passengers were transferred to the island by a small boat belongs to the Pulau Lara Marine Park Department. Within 10 minutes everyone was already in the water. The excitement created by the nature. Almost everyone has the snorkelling gears. The voices of the tourists depicted the enjoyment and happiness. The children were screaming happily once encountering the tamed fishes surrounding them. The water is perfect, crystal clear. Simultaneously, Dr. Aatan, Najib, Maarof and Ahmad Busu also joining the others. Exceptionally missing was Dr. Yop. He was seen having conversations with the staff of the Marine Park. They seem to discuss serious matters. Dr. Yop is a senior lecturer in occupational safety and health. Having working in the safety and health in oil and gas industry for 15 years prior to joining the academics, Dr. Yop definitely is an expert in the area of safety and health. Malaysia is a sea bounded country. Being surrounded by the Straits of Malacca along the west and South China Sea in the east, Malaysia also has possession over thousands of islands which are valuable not only to human beings but also to the other living creatures. As an exploration for economy activity intensifies, human to some extend forget about the need to preserve the world for future generation. As the subject of sustainability and environment preservation become a global issue, everyone has the responsibility in ensuring the longevity of the planet earth. Malaysia, after realising that domestic sources of protein have depleted and recognizing the importance of the coral reef areas as a habitat zones, legislated laws to prohibit any fishing activities within the preserved areas in 1984. Four years later, i.e. in 1987, the Government moved another step forward by establishing marine parks and marine reserve areas. Since then, 42 islands have been gazetted as marine parks. Pulau Lara was gazetted as a marine park in 2001 by the government. Fisheries Act (1985) states that marine park is an area covers water stretching two nautical miles from the shore to the surrounding island, with exception to Pulau Kapas where marine park waters covers one nautical mile seaward from the outermost points of the island.
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