Ocean Spirit and The Green Attitude
The Green Attitude Foundation was established by the Attitude Group in 2014 and has grown from strength to strength with its commitment to promote the core principles of Conservation, Humility and Respect, family values, and career development within the group. With our commitment to inform and enlighten the diving community about scuba diving in Mauritius, Ocean Spirit has developed along the same lines as Green Attitude.
Ocean spirit is well positioned to help with this project. As a scuba diving centre, dive shop and PADI Eco Aware Centre with a Green Star, Green Fins membership and a passion for diving. In addition we have also been awarded the prestigious Most Educational Ocean Awareness & Conservation Centre – Mauritius Award in 2023 by AI Global Media. www.aiglobalmedialtd.com
The Turtle Identification Project
Moné, an intern to the Resident Marine Biologist at the Attitude Foundation invited Ocean Spirit to assist with a project to identify local sea turtle using photo-ID software developed in Reunion Island. She says that the project has in fact been running for several years and is now being developed in Mauritius under the direction of the Attitude Foundation. By photographing the facial profiles from left right and above of sea turtles, she explained that the App can identify them and match their profiles. This makes it possible to track their migrations. Our team listened to her talk about the project, and we are excited to be included in this project.
As our Project Aware Foundation "Adopt a Dive Site" Project, Ocean Spirit adopted Turtle Rock. We have been tracking the changes in the reef over the past 8 years. Significantly, there are seasons when the turtles disappear. So yesterday we headed out to Turtle Rock to see if we could find any turtles- and what a great start to the Foundation's project. Take a look
It was a great day of diving, for the clients and for the team. We found six turtles on Turtle Rock the first time we visited, and over the past few weeks we have managed to identify more than 8 turtles, and have been sent “Adoption Certificates” for two of them
We are loading all the dives with our turtle sightings onto our YouTube Channel, so you can share this fascinating project. Our videos are reaching over 2 million views, which is surprising for videos of fish!
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