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LINKS WE LIKE
Blue Ventures is an award winning not-for-profit organisation dedicated to facilitating projects and expeditions that enhance global marine conservation and research.
Scott Stevenson - Underwater photographer
Scott is an excellent underwater photographer with whom I have just completed an extraordinary series of interpretive signs for the Ogden Point Breakwater in Victoria, British Columbia. Visit his web site to view some of his photography.
The Ogden Point Enhancement Society
The Ogden Point Enhancement Society is committed to the continued beautification of what many consider to be the most beautiful place to dock a cruise ship in Canada, the Ogden Point Terminal. I am proud to sit on the Board of Directors.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Coral Reef Conservation Program supports effective management and sound science to preserve, sustain and restore valuable coral reef ecosystems.
Blue Ocean Institute was founded by Carl Safina and Mercedes Lee and works to inspire a closer relationship with the sea through science, art, and literature. We develop conservation solutions that are compassionate to people as well as to ocean wildlife, and we share reliable information that enlightens personal choices, instills hope, and helps restore living abundance in the ocean.
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Scripps Institution of Oceanography is one of the oldest, largest, and most important centers for marine science research, graduate training, and public service in the world. Research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography encompasses physical, chemical, biological, geological, and geophysical studies of the oceans.
The World Wildlife web site, because it's an amazing web site and they are an amazing organization.
Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can "sponsor a business" and help the world's working poor make great strides towards economic independence. Throughout the course of the loan (usually 6-12 months), you can receive email journal updates from the business you've sponsored. As loans are repaid, you get your loan money back.
Since 1990, the David Suzuki Foundation has worked to find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world that sustains us. Focusing on four program areas – oceans and sustainable fishing, climate change and clean energy, sustainability, and the Nature Challenge - the Foundation uses science and education to promote solutions that conserve nature and help achieve sustainability within a generation.
Two if by Sea Catamaran Charters
Captain Steuart holds an RYA Yacht master certificate and has experience as a boat builder, delivery captain, race skipper, sailing instructor, including several trans-Atlantic crossings. He has a passion for diving and is a PADI Instructor. Chef/hostess Fran earned degrees in Human Communications and Psychology and is a licensed social worker and English teacher. She worked in the catering business in hotels and restaurants for several years in many parts of the world. She is also a PADI dive instructor, especially good with kids and new divers. They are two of our closet friends. You'll love them.
Discover what many divers, world travelers, nature lovers and active families already know. Anthony's Key Resort is the resort designed by nature where tranquility and adventure combine for a formula that has drawn visitors back again and again.
On Cayman Brac, Brac Reef Beach Resort offer their guests the best of Cayman Island diving – a choice of the 120 dive sites dotting the Sister Islands. Join Ocean's Edge as we dive at Brac Reef.
Scuba divers of all skill levels will delight in the facilities at Jean-Michel Cousteau Fiji Islands Resort which was awarded "World's Best for Scuba Diving" by Harpers Abroad. (Jan '03)
Divers Alert Network a nonprofit scuba diving and dive safety association providing expert medical advise for underwater injuries.
The Pocket Divesite books are must-have if you are planning to go diving in the area (e.g. Similan Thailand, or Phuket and surrounding). There are lots of colourful dive site diagrams, descriptions of area dive characteristics, and summaries of practical information you will need to know before you go.
Jonathan Bird is an Emmy Award-winning underwater cinematographer with experience in all aspects of underwater wildlife cinematography and still photography. He has shot and produced films for television which have aired all over the world.
Kevin Oke Photography offers stock images primarily from British Columbia, Canada and France, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Costa Rica and Mexico. Beautiful photography. Kevin also assisted in the photography for the Ogden Point Breakwater panels which a beautiful aerial of Goldstream Estuary.
Phillip Colla is a natural history photographer focusing on wild marine mammals, the California kelp forest, inhabitants of remote eastern Pacific islands, National Parks of the American West and, most recently, waves. Phillip also assisted me in the development of the Ogden Point interpretive signage with his beautiful images
Christina Craft travels extensively to capture wildlife in its natural surroundings. She has won several awards and has received international recognition for her wildlife and nature photography work. Christina hails from Victoria on Vancouver Island in British Columbia (B.C.), Canada. Christina also assisted in the photography for the recent Ogden Point Enhancement Society interpretive signage project.
Gulf Islands National Park Reserve
Established in 2003, Gulf Islands National Park Reserve safeguards a portion of British Columbia’s beautiful southern Gulf Islands archipelago. These islands are representative of the Strait of Georgia Lowlands, one of the most ecologically at risk natural regions in southern Canada. This small park reserve includes thirty-five square kilometres of land and intertidal area on fifteen islands, numerous islets and reefs, and approximately twenty-six square kilometres of marine areas which provide valuable habitat for seals and nesting shorebirds.
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