00:30The important thing for me is not to take out the boat, because it carries oil inside,
00:42before it damages my stones, my reefs, so as not to kill the fish, the lobsters that
00:50are going to be damaged with that diesel, gasoline.
01:00It is an inconvenience for tourism, a risk to the environment, a danger to navigation.
01:22It contaminates, it contaminates visually, it contaminates chemically, it contaminates
01:26in all senses.
01:28We ask ourselves the question, who is responsible for preventing this type of situation from happening?
01:33The list has to be exact, not only a nominal list of which boats sank or which semi-sunk,
01:58but also where it is located, so that this danger to navigation is catalogued and at
02:03least identified.
02:04The agreement is unknown to many public servants of the Republic of Panama.
02:20The Hong Kong agreement still belongs to a category of fiction rights, for many of
02:26those who have to fulfill it, and every time it is invoked to safeguard the environment,
02:32the officials have to carry out a search in their files or even a search on the Internet
02:38to be able to delimit whether this agreement exists or not.
02:47For Panama it is very important that the problem of these sunken boats be solved, that we have
02:52problems with this throughout the country.
02:54In fact, we estimate that there are more than 70 sunken boats at the national level.
02:59This is a serious problem.
03:11What we ask is that this bad practice be ended, that this problem be solved and that
03:17pollution on the upper coast be ended by means of abandoned boats, metal boats.
03:23We can transform a problem into a tourist attraction.
03:27You simply take the boat, extract all the hydrocarbons, do a treatment on the boat,
03:33make perforations, look for a specific place where you can sink to a depth that is within
03:39the recreational diving levels, and in this way we transform a problem into a solution,
03:46an attraction and an income generator for the local communities.
03:53For more information visit www.panama.gov
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