To cut the long story short, I had to give up my scuba diving since the the reefs I planned to dive were heavily polluted by silt. The silt came from the commercial palm tree farms which were planted on the coast, the silt getting washed out into the sea during the monsoons and essentially killing off the coral reefs. Completely nonsensical in terms of ecology .. fishing and leisure industry etc. A sad tale.
Btw there were some remnants of the original indigenous people (as on Nicobar islands) still there, although I didn't see them since they lived in inaccessible pockets on Andaman.
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