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Take Action to Help Save Manta Rays with the Manta Trust

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Manta Ray Underwater

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

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THE MANTA TRUST

Mission: Creating a sustainable future for manta rays through conservation research, awareness and education

HQ: Dorchester, United Kingdom

Founded: 2011

Contact: info@mantatrust.org

Project: The Manta Trust uses a multidisciplinary approach to conduct worldwide research of manta rays and their habitat to make conservation practices more effective and to educate the public and community.

HOW TO GET INVOLVED

IDtheManta

Using a program called IDtheManta, researchers can identify mantas using the spots on their undersides, which are as unique as fingerprints. You can submit your own images via the Manta Trust website or by emailing them to idthemanta@mantatrust.org.

Get Your Fins Wet

The Manta Trust has ongoing projects around the globe, including in the Maldives, Palau, Fiji, Thailand, Hawaii and Mexico. Field volunteers collect vital ID information and environmental data but also engage with the community. Field volunteers must be 21 years or older and have an advanced open water certification. Positions are posted on the Manta Trust page.

Get Volun-Techy

Want to get involved, but can’t make the travel happen? You can also volunteer online and help ID rays from the Manta Trust’s database.

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Sunset House Grand Cayman Eco-Dive Week with Dr. Ellen Prager

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Sunset House Grand Cayman Eco-Dive Week with Dr. Ellen Prager

July 2nd – 9th, 2016 LIMITED SPACE

Special Price $1475.00 per Diver

What makes this week so different than the others?

Visit to the Sunset House coral nursery and discussion about coral reef conservation.
Thought sponges were quite inactive creatures – learn the truth about these active pumpers on Grand Cayman reefs.

Compare day versus night on the reef and discuss the differences over a late dinner.
Look at how corals change with depth and why.

Learn about coral reef geology and where that lovely beach sand comes from.

Explore the islands other marine habitats with a trip to sea grass beds, mangroves!

All participants get Dr. Ellen’s copy of Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime book!

Package Includes, seven nights accommodations, six days of morning, two tank boat dives, plus unlimited shore diving. Daily made to order breakfast, welcome pizza party and farewell BBQ, Ellen’t Sex, Drugs and Sea Slime Book, all tax and service charges and more fun memories than you will ever get on a dive holiday!

Dr. Ellen Prager is a marine scientist and author, widely recognized for her expertise and ability to make science entertaining and understandable for people of all ages. She is currently a freelance writer, consultant, science advisor to Celebrity Xpedition in the Galapagos Islands, and a Safina Center Fellow.

She was previously the Chief Scientist for the Aquarius Reef Base program in Key Largo, FL, which includes the world’s only undersea research station, and at one time the Assistant Dean at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. Dr. Prager has built a national reputation as a scientist and spokesperson on earth and ocean science issues and is a sought after speaker for public-oriented events. She has appeared on The Today Show and NBC News, Good Morning America, Fox News, CBS Early Show, CNN American Morning, Larry King, The Weather Channel and in shows for the Discovery Channel.

(price per person in a courtyard room.. Upgrades available. Limited to only 32 divers!)

Valid From: July 2, 2016
Valid To: July 9, 2016
Travel must be booked by: LIMITED SPACE
Booking Email: sunset@sunsethouse.com
Booking Phone: 1 (800) 854 4767
Website: http://www.sunsethouse.com/

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Exercise is Medicine for Scuba Divers

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exercise_featured Exercise is the great equalizer, so much so that exercise is widely thought to stave off the effects of aging. Exercise helps prevent, reverse and manage illness and disease and contributes to overall wellbeing.

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Top 100 2015: Best Overall Diving

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Our readers weighed in on their most prized dive sites around the world — from North America to the Caribbean and Atlantic to the Pacific and Indian Oceans — to bring our 22nd annual 2015 Top 100 Readers Choice Awards to life.

For variety, we have featured one destination in each region (Caribbean and Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, and North America). Not all selections are the first-place winners in the Best Overall Diving category. Check out the complete list of Top 100 Readers Choice winners in this category below.

Need help planning a trip to one of the world’s best dive destinations?
The experts at Caradonna Dive Adventures can help you plan vacations to Bonaire’s Buddy Dive Resort and Divi Flamingo Beach Resort, British Virgin Islands’ Scrub Island Resort, Cozumel, Mexico’s Cozumel Palace and Occidental Grand, and scores of daily specials in the hottest dive locales on the planet.

BEST OVERALL DIVING: CARIBBEAN AND ATLANTIC

1. Cayman Islands

2. Bonaire

3. British Virgin Islands

4. Mexico

5. Belize

BEST OVERALL DIVING: NORTH AMERICA

1. Florida

2. British Columbia

3. California

4. North Carolina

5. Great Lakes

BEST OVERALL DIVING: PACIFIC AND INDIAN OCEANS

1. French Polynesia

2. Indonesia

3. Micronesia (Chuuk)

4. Palau

5. Guam

Thousands of subscribers and Web users rated their experiences at dive destinations in a variety of categories on a scale of one to five. Final scores are an average of the numerical scores awarded. A minimum number of responses was required for a destination to be included in these ratings.

More Top 100 Winners:

Best Wall Diving | Best Underwater Photography | Best Advanced Diving

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2016 Show Support Pack

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Are you exhibiting at a 2016 Trade or Consumer Dive Show?  Whether exhibiting at a show at which PADI also has a physical presence or not, PADI invites you to take advantage of the 2016 Show Support Pack.  This year … Continue reading →

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