Colombo: The world's first underwater Cabinet meeting gets underway on Saturday when Maldives ministers would meet at the bottom of the sea to highlight the dangers posed by global warming to their picturesque archipelago.
A horse-shoe shaped table has been immersed in the blue waters off the Girifushi island, about 35 nautical miles from capital Male, where President Mohamed Nasheed will preside over his Cabinet.
The ministers dressed in scuba suits would arrive by speed boats to the island and then dive to the Cabinet rendezvous.
The Maldivian ministers are going to these extraordinary lengths as a UN panel on climate change had warned that even a rise of sea levels between 18 to 60 cm would submerge the islands by 2100.
A horse-shoe shaped table has been immersed in the blue waters off the Girifushi island, about 35 nautical miles from capital Male, where President Mohamed Nasheed will preside over his Cabinet.
The ministers dressed in scuba suits would arrive by speed boats to the island and then dive to the Cabinet rendezvous.
The Maldivian ministers are going to these extraordinary lengths as a UN panel on climate change had warned that even a rise of sea levels between 18 to 60 cm would submerge the islands by 2100.
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