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Oonasdivers release LIDS show offers
UK-based tour operator Oonasdivers have released their LIDS show offers, which they say are valid from now until a couple of weeks after the show (which takes place this weekend the 14th/15th February at London’s ExCeL).
Here are the details:
Oonasdivers Dive Show Specials| Red Sea | Sharm from £565
Book before the 1st March and save £60 per person
Sharks Bay Umbi Village
Price includes flights, transfers, 7 nights B&B and 10 dives.
Valid for all dates of travel up to the end of April 2016. Check here for further details.
Oonasdivers Dive Show Specials | Red Sea | Marsa Alam from £705
Book before the 21st February and save £50 per person
Marsa Shagra
Price includes flights, transfers, 7 nights full board and 5 days unlimited diving.
Marsa Nakari
Price includes flights, transfers, 7 nights full board and 6* days unlimited diving.
*Includes 1 day complimentary diving
Valid for all dates of travel from the 1st January – 31st December 2015 excluding arrivals from the 1st-16th April 2015 and 1st October – 30th November 2015. Check here for further details.
Oonasdivers Dive Show Specials | Red Sea | Hamata from £760
Book before the 21st February and save £75 per person
Wadi Lahami
Price includes flights, transfers, 7 nights full board and 5 days offshore RIB diving (up to 4 dives per day).
Valid for all dates of travel from the 1st January – 31st December 2015 excluding arrivals from the 1st-16th April 2015 and 1st October – 30th November 2015. Check here for further details.
Oonasdivers Dive Show Specials | Red Sea | Liveaboards from £790
Emperor Asmaa from £790
Book before the 16th February and save up to £100 per person
Valid for various departures throughout 2015. For further details click here.
MY Juliet from £925
Book before the 1st March and save £80 per person + FREE Nitrox
Valid for all dates of travel up to the end of April 2016. For further details click here.
Blue Seas, Blue Pearl & Blue Planet 1 from £965
Book before 21st February and save £30 per person + FREE Nitrox on Seas and Pearl
Valid for all dates of travel up to the end of April 2016. For further details click here.
Freedom III from £960
Book before 1st March and save £60 per person
Valid for all dates of travel up to the end of April 2016. For further details click here.
Price includes flights, transfers, 7 nights full board and 6 days liveaboard diving.
Oonasdivers Dive Show Specials| Sudan from £2145
Book before the 22nd February and save £200 per person
Royal Evolution
Price includes flights, transfers, 14 nights full board and 12 days liveaboard diving.
Valid for all dates of travel up to the end of April 2016. Check here for further details.
Oonasdivers Dive Show Specials| Maldives Liveaboards from £1520
Book before the 16th February and save up to £100 per person
Emperor Atoll/Emperor Voyager
Price includes flights, transfers, 7 nights full board and 6 days liveaboard diving.
Valid for various departures throughout 2015. Check here for further details.
Oonasdivers Dive Show Specials| Tobago from £1365
Book before the 1st March and save £225 per person
Blue Waters Inn
Price includes flights, transfers, 7 nights B&B and 10 dives inclusive of equipment. Based on 2 divers sharing.
Valid for all dates of travel up to the end of April 2016. For further details click here.
Oonasdivers Dive Show Specials| St Lucia from £1780
Book before the 1st March and save £460 per person
Anse Chastanet
Price includes flights, transfers, 7 nights half board and 12 dives.
Valid for all dates of travel up to the end of April 2016. For further details click here.
Oonasdivers Dive Show Specials| South Africa & Mozambique from £1325
Book before the 8th March and save up to £160 per person
Shark Diving South Africa from £1325
Price includes flights, transfers, 6 nights B&B and 10 Shark Dives.
Shark Diving South Africa & Mozambique from £2125
Price includes flights, transfers, 12 nights B&B, 1 full day game safari and 18 dives.
Valid for all dates of travel in 2015. For further details click here.
Oonasdivers Dive Show Specials| Thailand Liveaboards from £1925
Book before the 25th February and save up to £70 per person
MV Giamani
Price includes flights, transfers, 6 nights full board and 22 dives.
Valid for all dates of travel in 2015. For further details click here.
Oonasdivers Dive Show Specials| Fiji from £2650
Book before the 21st February and save up to £135 per person
Matava
Price includes flights, transfers, 7 nights full board and 5 days diving.
Valid for all dates of travel up to the end of April 2016. For further details click here.
Oonasdivers Dive Show Specials| The Philippines from £1750
Book before the 21st February and save up to £590 per person
Atlantis Puerto Galera
Price includes flights, transfers, 7 nights full board and 6 days diving. Based on 2 divers sharing.
Valid for all dates of travel up to 31st December 2015. For further details click here.
Oonasdivers Dive Show Specials| North Sulawesi from £2600
Book before the 15th March and save up to £105 per person
Eco Divers Manado & Lembeh
Price includes flights, transfers, 14 nights full board and 12 days diving (3 dives per day).
Valid for all dates of travel up to 31st October 2015. For further details click here.
For more information or to book, contact the Oonasdivers team now by calling +44 (0)1323 648924, email info@oonasdivers.com or visit www.oonasdivers.com.
Blogs
The Ocean Cleanup Breaks 10,000,000 KG Barrier
The Ocean Cleanup, the global non-profit project, has removed a verified all-time total of ten million kilograms (22 million lbs.) of trash from oceans and rivers around the world – approximately the same weight as the Eiffel Tower.
To complete its mission of ridding the oceans of plastic, The Ocean Cleanup uses a dual strategy: cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) to remove the plastic already afloat in the oceans, while stopping the flow of plastic from the world’s most polluting rivers.
Through cleaning operations in the GPGP and in rivers in eight countries, the cumulative total of trash removed has now surpassed ten million kilograms. This milestone demonstrates the acceleration of The Ocean Cleanup’s impact, while underlining the astonishing scale of the plastic pollution problem and the need for continued support and action.
While encouraging for the mission, this milestone is only a staging point: millions more tons of plastic still pollute our oceans and The Ocean Cleanup intends to continue learning, improving and innovating to solve this global catastrophe.
This announcement comes as governments from around the world meet to continue negotiations to develop a new legally binding instrument to end plastic pollution at INC4 in Ottawa, Canada. Representatives of The Ocean Cleanup will be in attendance and the organization will be urging decision-makers to collaborate towards a comprehensive and ambitious global treaty which addresses plastic at all stages of its life cycle and in all marine environments worldwide, including in areas beyond national jurisdiction.
It is encouraging to see that the need for remediation is reflected in the various options for potential treaty provisions. It is essential that the final treaty contains clear targets for the remediation of legacy plastic pollution, and reduction of riverine plastic emissions.
Tackling plastic pollution requires innovative and impactful solutions. The treaty should therefore incentivize the innovation ecosystem by fostering innovations that make maximal use of data, technology and scientific knowledge – such as those designed and deployed by The Ocean Cleanup.
‘After many tough years of trial and error, it’s amazing to see our work is starting to pay off – and I am proud of the team who has brought us to this point.’ said Boyan Slat, Founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup. ‘While we still have a long way to go, our recent successes fill us with renewed confidence that the oceans can be cleaned.’
The Ocean Cleanup was founded in 2013 and captured its first plastic in 2019, with the first confirmed catch in the GPGP coming soon after the deployment of Interceptor 001 in Jakarta, Indonesia. After surpassing one million kilograms of trash removed in early 2022, the non-profit project has since progressed to the third iteration of its GPGP cleaning solution, known as System 03, and a network of Interceptors currently covering rivers in eight countries, with more deployments set for 2024.
About The Ocean Cleanup
The Ocean Cleanup is an international non-profit organization that develops and scales technologies to rid the world’s oceans of plastic. They aim to achieve this goal through a dual strategy: stemming the inflow via rivers and cleaning up the legacy plastic that has already accumulated in the ocean. For the latter, The Ocean Cleanup develops large-scale systems to efficiently concentrate the plastic for periodic removal. This plastic is tracked and traced through DNV’s chain of custody model to certify claims of origin when recycling it into new products. To curb the tide via rivers, The Ocean Cleanup has developed Interceptor™ solutions to halt and extract riverine plastic before it reaches the ocean. Founded in 2013 by Boyan Slat, The Ocean Cleanup now employs a broadly multi-disciplined team of approximately 140. The foundation is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
For more information, visit: theoceancleanup.com and follow @theoceancleanup on social media.
Marine Life & Conservation
Steve Backshall to headline Shark Trust’s flagship event: For the Love of Sharks
Join a host of amazing, shark loving, speakers including Steve Backshall and the Shark Trust team for an evening celebrating shark conservation at the Royal Geographical Society in London this November.
Date: 29th November 2024
Time: 6-10pm
Location: Royal Geographical Society, London
Tickets: https://www.sharktrust.org/Event/flos24
The event will be a celebration of all things shark. Those lucky enough to get hold of tickets will hear from engaging guest speakers with a passion for sharks.
The line-up includes (*subject to change if unforeseen circumstances arise)
Steve Backshall: One of television’s busiest presenters, BAFTA award-winning wildlife expert Steve has been passionate about the wild world ever since he was young.
Steve’s impressive TV career has taken him all around the world, investigating a wide array of species and environments. Steve has filmed over 100 hours of children’s wildlife programmes with the BAFTA award winning Deadly 60 franchise and recently, with Sky Nature, for his new series ‘Whale with Steve Backshall’. He has been a patron for the Shark Trust for 10 years.
Simon Rogerson: is a photojournalist specialising in natural history, diving and the sea.
He is editor of SCUBA magazine, the official journal of the British Sub-Aqua Club. Simon started his career as a crime reporter but gravitated towards his ‘less depressing’ interest in underwater exploration, joining the staff of DIVE magazine in 1999. In 2005 he was named ‘Editor of the Year’ in the PPA’s Independent Publishing Awards. Simon also works as a freelance writer, contributing frequently to the Sunday Times and Telegraph, in addition to BBC Wildlife, Esquire, and a host of international diving magazines. He is the author of a book, Dive Red Sea, published by Ultimate Sports. Now based in Berkshire, Simon has been a Patron of the Shark Trust for 20 years.
More speakers to be announced soon. Head to the Shark Trust website to learn more.
The evening will also allow guests the final chance to see the Oceanic 31, shark art exhibition. Some of the artwork will be auctioned/raffled at the event, while the rest will be auctioned online to raise money for the Shark Trust Oceanic Programme.
For the Love of Sharks is an evening with something for everyone who is interested and fascinated by sharks. Join the Shark Trust, their Patrons, Trustees and Staff, along with a host of supporters for this celebration of shark conservation.
For more information or to buy a ticket: https://www.sharktrust.org/Event/flos24
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