Video of Hurricane Irma 'deaf interpreter' signing nonsense about pizza and bears goes viral. Emergency officials in Florida have come under fire after a lifeguard they used as an interpreter for the deaf signed gibberish about pizza, monsters and a bear during a safety briefing on Hurricane Irma. Manatee County leaders said they were "in a pinch" as the storm approached the Tampa Bay area on 8 September, and that they desperately needed someone to interpret an emergency public broadcast. After failing to get an expert to communicate the evacuation and safety advice, they instead asked county employee Marshall Greene, who works as a lifeguard for the marine rescue unit and who has a deaf brother. The decision proved to be a terrible mistake. Members of the deaf community say Greene mostly signed gibberish, including references to "pizza" and "monsters". He also signed the phrase, "help you at that time to use bear big," during the broadcast.

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Other sentences signed were incomplete or incomprehensible, deaf people said. A video of the performance, complete with subtitles, has since gone viral online. The former president of the National Association of the Deaf, Chris Wagner, who has previously worked in Manatee County, said the debacle was an insult to the deaf community."Everybody was talking about it on social media, everyone was shocked, asking leaders in the deaf community to do something about it," he told local news channel WFLA. It was obvious to me he wasn't a professional interpreter.

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I was totally shocked."Wagner said Greene also fell foul of basic good practice for interpreters by wearing a bright yellow shirt, thereby making his hands less visible to deaf viewers. He also repeatedly turned his head towards the podium rather than keep eye contact with the camera. Greene's father defended his son, saying he only agreed to help out because his bosses had nobody else available."He can't expect to communicate something he doesn't know," his father said. County leaders have faced the brunt of the criticism for failing to organise an interpreter despite days of weather warnings. The county often uses the company Vis. Com to provide interpreters, but owner Charlene Mc. Carthy claimed she was never called.

She said she was horrified when she saw the broadcast."I knew something went horribly wrong," she said. It was horribly unnerving for me. To watch that, knowing I could provide a qualified, certified interpreter."County officials say they have learned from the mistake. Members of the local deaf community have demanded an apology from Manatee County, saying the error was dangerous and put lives at risk.

Massive Bleaching Event May Be Coming To An End. A forecast of ocean temperatures worldwide indicates the widespread coral bleaching event that was declared in 2.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported. The most recent forecast shows widespread bleaching has stopped in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean basins meaning the trend worldwide is likely coming to an end. With data collected by geostationary and polar- orbiting satellites, NOAA scientists were able to examine ocean temperatures and identify the areas at risk and the patterns of bleaching events. Additionally, scientists plan to monitor ocean temperatures for the next six months to confirm the end of the event, a release from NOAA said. Read: Your Sunscreen May Be Killing Coral Reefs, Here's A List Of Eco- Friendly Products. What is coral bleaching?

Ocean corals need specific conditions to thrive. When they’re exposed to warm waters or rapidly changing environments, like an increase in pollution or overexposure to the sun, the corals can lose the algae living in their tissues. Those algae give the coral its vivid color, so once they’re gone the coral turns a shade of white and considered “bleached.” This puts the corals under stress and makes it more likely the coral will die, NOAA said. The bleaching event that researchers suspect is coming to an end is the third global bleaching event on record, the first occurred in 1. But the event that began in 2. All of the tropical coral reefs in the world saw heightened temperatures and more than 7.

NOAA is working with scientists, resource managers and communities around the world to determine what the true impacts of this event will be on coral reefs,” Mark Eakin, Coral Reef Watch Coordinator at NOAA, said in a release. The Great Barrier Reef suffered severe bleaching earlier this year following a 2. Arc Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies found. These two events gave the reef little to no time to recover meaning it could hit a point of no return.

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Read: Coral Bleaching Spreads On The Great Barrier Reef. Why are healthy coral important?

Healthy coral reefs support ocean ecosystems and provide protection for ocean life and coastlines alike. The reefs help minimize the impact of waves and storms along coastlines while providing habitats for marine life as well as essential nutrients and foods for those ecosystems. Some reefs can come back from a bleaching event if the water temperatures return to normal fairly quickly. Reefs in Hawaii, Florida and the Caribbean are big tourist attractions and still may be at risk for bleaching later in the summer. NOAA will continue to monitor the warming ocean temperatures and bleaching events.

The heat stress outlook is available online and will calculate the risk factor for a bleaching event in the next four months.