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Join Saba’s Sea & Learn Environmental Awareness Program, October 2015

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Sea & Learn invites you to Saba for another exciting event this October! Enhance your environmental awareness as you join our 2015 experts for firsthand encounters with nature.

Every year during the month of October, Sea & Learn hosts more than a dozen world-renowned scientific experts for a month-long environmental awareness event. There are 14 experts on Saba during the month; each week has different topics with different scientists and different activities. Every other night there’s a presentation held at a bar or restaurant. Sign up for a dive, join a hike or just sit with a cold drink and enjoy the night time presentation–there are numerous ways to enhance your own environmental awareness.

This year marks the 13th annual event; all activities are free and open to the public. Sea & Learn is unique to the rain forest island paradise of Saba in the Dutch Caribbean. Saba is called the Unspoiled Queen for its pristine nature and vibrant biodiversity from mountainous cloud forest to its deep water pinnacles.

Visit the new Sea & Learn website to learn more: http://www.seaandlearn.com/ and find Sea & Learn on facebook for all the latest updates. For specific questions or to be added to the mailing list, email seaandlearnsaba@gmail.com.

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Help Save the World’s Shark Populations with WildAid

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Slaughtered sharks on the shore.

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S.O.S. = Save Our Sharks
Due to threats like shark finning, shark culls and accidental bycatch, sharks need our help now, more than ever. WildAid informs the public and helps promote sensible action.

Mission: Saving the world’s shark populations by building awareness, education and action
HQ: San Francisco
Year Founded: 2007; merged with WildAid in 2014
Contact: wildaid.org
Project: Shark Savers works to reduce the demand for shark fins and to increase the scope and regulation of shark sanctuaries worldwide. “Sharks play a critical role in marine ecosystems as the top predators that keep populations of other species in balance,” says Marcel Bigue, WildAid’s marine program director. “The health of our oceans depends on them.”

In search of a worthy cause? Here’s how you can help.

1. SAY NO TO FINS
Shark finning kills roughly 73 million sharks each year and is rapidly driving many species toward extinction, but you can help stop that. Join Shark Savers’ movement, I’m FINished with FINs, by signing an online pledge to not consume shark fin under any circumstances. But don’t let your involvement end with a signature: Talk to legislators about banning the practice, and locate restaurants in your community that have shark on the menu. Sparking conversation is the first step in fighting the problem.

2. DIVE FOR SCIENCE
Even if biology wasn’t exactly your best subject in school — we’re not judging — Shark Savers wants you to join the front lines with its SharksCount program. Divers of all skill levels are given tools to count and identify the sharks they see underwater. The data collected is added to an online database to help provide essential information about local shark population trends, and your dives help promote sustainable shark eco-tourism. Email sharkscount@sharksavers.org and specify where you dive most often.

3. HELP SANCTUARIES
The Shark Sanctuary Program supports local initiatives to protect sharks around the globe. “Marine protection areas, particularly those in the developing world, are dependent upon the support and expertise of groups like WildAid to safeguard their natural treasures,” says Bigue. Donate at wildaid.org, and contribute to expanding and safeguarding these areas. You can also increase awareness of the importance of marine sanctuaries in your community by using educational resources available on Shark Saver’s site.

Looking for more ways to help? Here are 30 Things You Can Do For The Marine Environment

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Video: Diving Cuba’s Gardens of the Queen

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Map of the Gardens of the Queen - Cuba

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Jardines de la Reina
The 90-mile arc of mangroves and keys along Cuba’s southeastern coast encompasses an 850-square-mile no-take marine reserve.

Cuba is a dream destination for many divers, and this video highlights the country’s beautiful dive sites in Jardines de la Reina, or Gardens of the Queen. This area is part of an 850-square-mile no-take marine reserve and is home to a huge variety of marine life including plenty of sharks, grouper, and crocodiles. The Gardens of the Queen is earning quite the reputation for the large number of sharks that can be found swimming within its pristine waters.

Ready to dive the Gardens of the Queen and take this trip yourself? Click here for trip and travel information on scuba diving Cuba.

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Harry Thornton became a PADI Scuba Diver

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This story is so amazing that I had to write about it. On the 5th of August 2015 something really special happened in Larnaca, Cyprus. Harry Thornton became a PADI Scuba Diver. Well – this event is nothing out of … Continue reading →

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Explore Costa Rica: Volcanoes, Bull Sharks and Top Dives

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No matter what adventure you crave, you’ll find it in Costa Rica — both topside and underwater. You can surf world-class waves, hike along the foothills of an active volcano, speed through the rainforest canopy on a zip line or scuba dive with bull sharks. Did we mention there’s also volcano-heated hot springs to […]

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