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Join Project AWARE in celebrating what divers everywhere love about the ocean
Following Valentine’s Day on Saturday, Project AWARE are feeling the love – the love for our oceans – and they want to share it with you.
Share your favourite ocean pic on Instagram or Twitter and inspire others to want to protect the underwater world in the #WhatILoveAbouttheOcean campaign.
Here’s what you can do:
- Share your favourite ocean picture on Twitter or Instagram using#WhatILoveAbouttheOcean. Your image will be automatically added to the campaign photo grid.
- Don’t have a Twitter or Instagram account? Don’t worry – you can still participate by adding your photo directly to Project AWARE’s #WhatILoveAbouttheOcean grid. Don’t forget to add a caption.
- Make a donation to help protect what you love for future generations.
The ocean is an incredible resource – it gives us life, food, recreation and is home to some of the most majestic and mindblowing species on the planet. Yet only two percent of our ocean is protected with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) declaring that at least 30 percent of the world’s ocean should be protected as marine parks where fishing and mining are banned.
“In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we have been taught.”
That famous saying, by the Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum, sums up how love plays a vital role in inspiring people to take action. Through educational outreach and their shared passion for the underwater world, Project AWARE empower the dive community to better understand the threats facing our oceans and they inspire them to take action to protect it.
Use the power of love during Project AWARE’s #WhatIloveAbouttheOcean campaign. Project AWARE will spread the love far and wide by featuring some of your best pics to inspire others to love and protect the ocean.
For more information about Project AWARE visit www.projectaware.org.
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Dive Worldwide Announces Bite-Back as its Charity of the Year
Over the next 12 months, specialist scuba holiday company Dive Worldwide will be supporting Bite-Back Shark & Marine Conservation with donations collected from client bookings to any one of its stunning dive destinations around the world. The independently-owned operator expects to raise £3000 for the UK charity.
Manager at Dive Worldwide, Phil North, said: “We’re especially excited to work with Bite-Back and support its intelligent, creative and results-driven campaigns to end the UK trade in shark products and prompt a change in attitudes to the ocean’s most maligned inhabitant.”
Bite-Back is running campaigns to hold the media to account on the way it reports shark news along with a brand new nationwide education programme. Last year the charity was credited for spearheading a UK ban on the import and export of shark fins.
Campaign director at Bite-Back, Graham Buckingham, said: “We’re enormously grateful to Dive Worldwide for choosing to support Bite-Back. The company’s commitment to conservation helps set it apart from other tour operators and we’re certain its clients admire and respect that policy. For us, the affiliation is huge and helps us look to the future with confidence we can deliver against key conservation programmes.”
To launch the fundraising initiative, Phil North presented Graham Buckingham with a cheque for £1,000.
Visit Dive Worldwide to discover its diverse range of international scuba adventures and visit Bite-Back to learn more about the charity’s campaigns.
MORE INFORMATION
Call Graham Buckingham on 07810 454 266 or email graham@bite-back.com
Gear News
Scubapro Free Octopus Promotion 2024
Free Octopus with every purchase of a SCUBAPRO regulator system
Just in time for the spring season, divers can save money with the FREE OCTOPUS SPRING PROMOTION! Until July 31st SCUBAPRO offers an Octopus for free
with every purchase of a regulator system!
Get a free S270 OCTOPUS with purchase of these combinations:
MK25 EVO or MK19 EVO with A700
MK25 EVO or MK19 EVO with S620Ti
MK25 EVO or MK19 EVO with D420
MK25 EVO Din mit S620Ti-X
Get a free R105 OCTOPUS with purchase of the following combinations:
MK25 EVO or MK19 EVO with G260
MK25 EVO or MK17 EVO with S600
SCUBAPRO offers a 30-year first owner warranty on all regulators, with a revision period of two years or 100 dives. All SCUBAPRO regulators are of course certified according to the new European test standard EN250-2014.
Available at participating SCUBAPRO dealers. Promotion may not be available in all regions. Find an authorized SCUBAPRO Dealer at scubapro.com.
More information available on www.scubapro.com.
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