“The damage caused by the grounding of USS Guardian onTubbatahaNatural Reef Park is bigger, far more reaching and strategically fatal to the livelihood of Filipino fishermen and to the fishing environment directly link to the protected reef park. It will take one year for a millimeter of mostly hard corals inTubbataha’s South Section to go back to its sound condition and it will take 250 years for a meter of coral to mature,”