Mission to the Tokelau islands to evaluate cyclone damage to coral reefs / Pierre Laboute

Abstract

Mr Foua Toloa possesses a diving certificate and accompanied me on seven of the ten diving inspections made. Mr Foua is not authorised to go deeper than 25 to 30 m, so when it was necessary to go down deeper I went alone. The air bottles we used had a capacity of only about two cubic metres and it was therefore impossible to stay for very long at each depth described. For this reason the descriptions given hereafter are very rough and the percentages only approximate