WE ARE COMMITTED TO PROTECTING THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT!

Dive with confidence knowing you are supporting a eco dive shop that cares about the underwater world and is actively trying to protect it. We want many future generations to experience the beauty and wonder of our great ocean.

PADI Aware

We work with PADI Aware to help with their environmental protection initiatives. Educating our divers on exploring in an environmentally responsible manner using good buoyancy control and streamlining in order to not damage sensitive marine life. We run PADI Aware specialties to help educate divers on the marine environment and are constantly trying to foster the connection people have with the ocean to promote its need for protection.

Dive Against Debris

We run ocean clean up dives through PADI Aware called Dive Against Debris. With a group of divers, we collect trash in mesh bags during our dive. After the dive we separate/sort it and report what we have found. This is a vital step in protecting marine life (especially turtles) who mistake waste for food. If you are interested in doing a Dive Against Debris please contact us.

We do not drop anchors

Dropping anchors can damage marine life and coral; even if you drop an anchor on the sand it may move and damage sea life nearby. This is why we do not drop anchors on any of our dives. Almost all of our sites have mooring buoys which we connect to the boat and use this line for the divers to go down. If a site does not have a buoy, our captain will position us directly over the site, the divers will group together on the surface, and do a free decent down.

Stony coral tissue loss disease and coral monitoring

Barbados, like many other Caribbean islands’ corals, are suffering from stony coral tissue loss disease. It looks much like small patches of coral bleaching. In order to help prevent the spread of this disease, we wash our gear in a mild bleach solution and let it dry in the sun so the gear does not spread the disease to other locations.

We also do coral monitoring to track the spread and bring awareness and funding to research, prevention and treatment of the disease as well as to coral growing projects. We report the disease information to AGGRRA. (visit their website to learn more). We are also members of CORALL, a local organization working to grow coral and protect our existing reefs.

Lionfish hunting

Lionfish are an invasive species here in Barbados with no natural predators. They eat all the small reef fish that are part of the natural ecosystem, making lionfish very harmful to the marine environment outside their natural habitat. In order to protect the reefs, we hunt any lionfish we see while diving. As a point of interest, lionfish are also quite tasty to eat! If you would like to help with this work, we offer a lionfish specialty course to learn how to safely remove them from the reef. Please contact us for more info.

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