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Muck diving sounds the very antithesis of coral-reef diving.
漫潛聽起來與珊瑚礁潛水相對立。
Reef divers swim through a world of colourful coral heads populated by strikingly patterned fish,
暗礁潛水者游過一片彩色的珊瑚岬世界，這里居住著各種魚類、
scuttling arthropods and awesome molluscs.
其他節肢動物以及軟體動物。
Muck divers explore apparently unpromising sand flats and muddy silts devoid of visible inhabitants.
漫潛者探索的是毫無前途的沙坪區域以及沒有任何可見居住動物的泥沙區域。
Muck divers, though, see reef divers as the lightweights of the scuba world— people in search of the obvious.
雖然漫潛者將暗礁潛水者看做是潛水界的輕量級選手—毫無創意的尋找者。
Muck diving is about searching for the unusual, the cryptic and the rare.
漫潛是尋找與眾不同、神秘和稀有。
Though enthusiasts discovered muck's attractions less than ten years ago,
雖然狂熱者發現淤泥的吸引力不如十年前了，
and the species that live in it were similarly ignored by science, muck diving is now big business.
生活在這片區域的物種同樣被科學忽視，但漫潛現在是一個大生意。
Tallies are not kept, but research conducted in 2014 by Maarten De Brauwer, a marine biologist at Leeds University, in Britain,
雖然沒有記錄，但2014年英國利茲大學海洋生物學家Maarten De Brauwer
who is an expert on muck diving, suggests that 100,000 tourists visited the Philippines and Indonesia that year specifically to dive on the muck.
（他是漫潛的專家）稱那一年有十萬人專門去菲律賓和印尼漫潛。
This brought $150m into the region. In the Philippines the fishing villages of Anilao in Luzon,
這為該地區帶來了1.5億美元的收入。在菲律賓，呂宋島的阿尼勞漁村
and Dauin in Negros Oriental, have been particular beneficiaries of the growth of this sort of tourism.
以及內格羅斯島的道因是這類旅游業增長的特別受益者。
Dr De Brauwer thinks of divers who explore these sediments as the marine equivalent of bird watchers,
De Brauwer博士認為探索這些沉積物的潛水者就像是海洋版的觀鳥者，
ticking off species in a sort of zoological competition.
在某種動物競爭中勾選物種。
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