Reef Environmental Education Foundation
With 2 weeks to go, we are two-thirds of the way toward reaching our goal of raising $60,000 in 60 days. Every dollar you donate will be doubled, and every donation makes a difference! Please help by donating through our secure website at www.REEF.org/contribute, mailing your donation to REEF at PO Box 246 – Key Largo, FL 33037, or calling us at 305-852-0030. Double your donation and ensure REEF’s marine conservation programs can continue. Every gift matters, regardless of the size! Thank you to each of you who donated so far to our summer matching campaign, and thanks to the generosity of the Curtis and Edith Munson Foundation for matching your contributions! With donations from our members, we can continue to support programs that foundation and government funding no longer cover. Staff salaries and … Read entire article »
Filed under: Artificial Reefs, Conservation, Education, Events, ocean, Preservation, Promotions, Reefs, Reference, Report, Training, Travel, Volunteer
LionFish Hunt off Jacksonville Fl. July 29, 2012
Join Offshore Dive Charters on a Lion Fish Hunt @ the Artificial Reef: DryDock [singlepic id=744 w=640 h=480 float=center] Two Dives on the Casablanca, One dive on BR Ferry and One dive on the Huggins, 4 tanks, Deep Dives (approx 110 feet), must be Advanced and will need nitrox. Have your lionfish gear ready because they are there…..Need a puncture resistant gloves, pole spear, EMT shears, and either a bag or tube system that doesn’t allow penetration and a stringer (if you are going to cut off the spines under water – but this does take MORE time) [singlepic id=743 w=320 h=240 float=center] [singlepic id=781 w=320 h=240 float=center] The Casablanca is 327 foot long LST landing craft, hull number CVE 55, was built by Kaiser S.B. Company in Vancouver, Washington. She was originally built as the Alazon Bay, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Artificial Reefs, Boats, Divetalking, Events, Lionfish, Master Diver, Open Water, Promotions, Reefs, Reference, Report, Trip Invitations, Wrecks
Ultimate Diver Challenge – West Palm Beach, FL July 20-31, 2012
This years Ultimate Diver Challenge, UDC is being conducted in West Palm Beach, Florida July 20 – 31, 2012. Preliminary 2012 – Ultimate Diver Challenge Schedule Day 1 – Friday, July 20 •08:00 PM – Opening Ceremony (Meet the Teams and Honorary Guests) TBD Day 2 – Saturday, July 21 •08:30 AM to 11:30 PM – (Fun Diving, Buoyancy and Equipment Check & Registration) •09:00 PM to 1:00 PM – “Discover Scuba” for Community (Blue Heron Bridge) •02:00 PM to 3:00 PM – Marine Life Clean Up Challenge Kick Off — Registration & Rule Review •03:30 PM to 5:00 PM – Photo Challenge Briefing •07:00 PM to 8:00 PM – Seminar 1 “Diving Like a Fish, not like an Ape” Scott Evans, NASE •08:00PM – Challenge One Briefing Day 3 – Sunday, July 22 •09:00 AM – Fun Diving AM/PM Trips & … Read entire article »
Filed under: Contest, Diver, Divetalking, Events, ocean, Open Water, Promotions, Training, Travel
Digital Photography Session being offered
An opportunity to attend a Digital Photographic Specialty course has opened up and this email serves both as an announcement as well as an invitation to attend. Course is being conducted in Jacksonville Florida. Your investment: * JRRT Members and Students for certification is $ 95.00 * Non JRRT Members/students for certification is $120.00 * Non JRRT Members/students no Certification is $ 75.00 * Non JRRT Members on Active Military Duty pay JRRT Prices for certification The certification course includes the classroom sessions, 4 hour field study, materials and certification card. Two dives required to complete the certification (You are required to cover all your expenses for the dives). The date and location of the dives will be announced during the July 17 class. One followup session where we will review the photographs taken below the surface. Requirements: Camera, Understanding of the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Adv. Open Water, Divetalking, Events, Photography, Promotions, Specialties, Training
Lionfish Harvest Dry Docks Jacksonville Fl.
Join Offshore Dive Charters on a Lion Fish Hunt @ the Artificial Reef: DryDock [singlepic id=744 w=320 h=240 float=center] [singlepic id=743 w=320 h=240 float=center] The Drydock. [singlepic id=745 w=320 h=240 float=center] Approximately 600 ft length and 120 ft width. Depths from 100 to 130 ft. The U.S. Navy Drydock was placed offshore in 1989 to serve as an artificial reef. The drydock is heavily encrusted with Atlantic winged oysters, barnacles, and a type of soft coral (telesto riisei). Sea urchins and arrow crabs are abundant, and occasional scallops and thorny oysters decorate the reef. Sunday, June 24, 2012 Embark on The “Diamond Diver” A 46 ft. Newton with full accommodations The largest diveboat serving Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia Where to meet the boat? 9954 Heckscher Drive, Jacksonville, FL 32226 at 6:00 AM EST Boat located at map Saturday…Southeast winds 10 knots. Seas 2 to 3 … Read entire article »
Filed under: Adv. Open Water, Artificial Reefs, Events, Fish, Lionfish, ocean, Open Water, Promotions, Reefs, Wrecks
Speed Dating Fishy Style: How Fish Spawn and When You’re Likely to Catch Them in the Act
From REEF: Mark your calendars — REEF co-founder and fish behavior expert, Ned DeLoach, will be presenting a Fishinar “Speed Dating Fishy Style: How Fish Spawn and When You’re Likely to Catch Them in the Act” next Wednesday, May 9th at 8PM EST. You don’t want to miss this free webinar. Ned will be showing amazing pictures of fish he has caught in the act of spawning and telling great stories of the many adventures he and Anna have had through the years! Register online here –http://www.reef.org/resources/webinars … Read entire article »
Filed under: Events, Featured, Fish, ocean, Photography, Promotions, Reefs, Reference, Videography, Volunteer
Show your support by displaying Divetalkings official logo
Displaying the Official Divetalking Logo shows you are committed to marine life conservation, preservation and protection. Contact lars2923@divetalking.com to have your high resolution logo emailed to you. Display it at your website. Print it on letter head and attach it to emails to let others know you are affiliated with the organization acting as the worlds protagonist in ocean conservation, protection and awareness. Become an official representative today. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Artificial Reefs, Conservation, Dolphin, Earth, Featured, ocean, Promotions, Reefs, Reference, Report, Rescue, SeaLions, Sharks, Shrimp, Stories, Training, Travel, Video, Volunteer, Whales, Whaleshark, Wrecks
Favorite place to dive
If you had to choose just one place in the world, what place would you choose as your most favorite place to dive, and why? … Read entire article »
Filed under: Earth, Featured, General Question, ocean, Open Water, Promotions, Reefs, Reference, Travel
Divers Direct Sponsors Multi-Location Beach and Reef Cleanup
Sunday, April 22nd FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Divers Direct, Florida’s largest retailer of SCUBA diving equipment, announces its 2nd annual “Scrub & Grub” beach and reef cleanup to benefit multiple locations throughout the state of Florida. This year’s event is being held on Earth Day (Sunday, April 22nd) to bring awareness to the importance of maintaining the health of the aquatic environment by engaging in “green” practices when enjoying this natural resource. Each of the Divers Direct store … Read entire article »
Filed under: Adv. Open Water, Artificial Reefs, Conservation, Diver, Earth, Events, Featured, ocean, Promotions, Reefs, Reference, Report, Volunteer
Underwater World Offshore Jacksonville Florida Event
Thursday March 29th, 2012 @ 7PM Intuition Ale Works 720 King Street, Jacksonville, Fl. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Artificial Reefs, Conservation, Diver, Earth, Events, Featured, ocean, Open Water, Photography, Promotions, Reefs, Reference, Report, Volunteer
Shark fin soup to blame for blue shark decline
by Tamera Jones hey discovered that the sharks feed in exactly the same places in the ocean that long-line fishing boats operate, which means they get caught along with other target fish. The researchers add that such regions are ideal places to implement so-called marine protected areas, where fishing is banned, to safeguard blue sharks and other vulnerable species. ‘These sharks aren’t simply by-catch; we think along with mako sharks they’re being targeted for the shark fin market … Read entire article »
Filed under: Conservation, Earth, Featured, Fish, ocean, Promotions, Reefs, Reference, Report, Sharks
Great Whites found at Ginnie Springs AND Devils Den
Divetalking received an email reporting DECO has been found! Attached to the email was this picture of Chris holding DECO. Attached with the picture was the following message: “Found this little guy in the ballroom in Ginnie springs, placing another shark my Dive Buddy found in Devils Den.” The individuals who found DECO are being rewarded for the find. Congratulations to the team who found her. Chris just reported that the dive team found TWO Great Whites. The … Read entire article »
Filed under: Photography, Promotions, Report, Sharks
Petition Amazon To Ban the sale of Whale/Dolphin
Last week, public outcry forced Amazon.com to pull over one hundred whale and dolphin meat products from its Japanese site. Consumers were outraged that the world’s largest online retailer supported the killing of whales and dolphins — and Amazon.com listened. But now, Amazon.com is refusing to put a permanent ban in place to protect these animals in the future. Melissa Sehgal, an Amazon.com customer, is in Taiji, Japan — the site of an annual dolphin hunt that was exposed in the documentary The Cove. Every day she is witnessing how dolphins are captured and killed, and she wants Amazon.com to help stop it. That’s why Melissa started a petition calling on Amazon to never again sell meat from dolphins and whales. Click here to sign Melissa’s petition asking Amazon.com to permanently ban whale, dolphin, and porpoise meat … Read entire article »
Filed under: Conservation, Dolphin, Events, Featured, ocean, Promotions, Report, Rescue, Whales
Name the Great White
Saturday January 28, 2012 – Thursday March 1, 2012 Description: Four Great Whites are on their way to Florida. One of the four Great Whites has been named NARCOSIS. The three remaining Great Whites need a name. Register your suggestion for a name and if the name you submitted is the first of that name submitted and selected, you will win one of many prizes being given away by Divetalking. When the names of the sharks have a name, they will reside at one of many springs around the state of Florida. It will be you and your friends task to find them to win more prizes from Divetalking. Once the sharks are placed, a post to their location as to which spring they decided to take up residency will be made. Good Luck! Register (Closed) … Read entire article »
Filed under: Contest, Events, Promotions, Reference, Sharks
Stare at her for 30 seconds
Click on the picture below. Stare at the dots on her nose for 30 second. Then stare at a blank white screen, like a browser screen. You may be amazed at what you will see… … Read entire article »
Filed under: 3D, Promotions, Reference
Island Dreams Travel Photo Competition
Why a Photo Competition? – Sad to say, some companies sponsor photo contests so they can get lots of free pictures to use in their advertising. No worries on that count, at Island Dreams we create our own images. The reason for this contest is that our clients often send us photos from their Island Dreams’ travels, and as part of our 25th anniversary celebrations we thought it would be fun to create a way for you to see them, and to give some recognition for the best work. Contest entries will be displayed on Island Dreams’ web site and on our Facebook page, and the winning images may also be highlighted on the pages of our contest prize donors, but not used for any other purpose. We hope you … Read entire article »
Filed under: Contest, Photography, Promotions