Yr-round, Sandals Resorts International and the Sandals Foundation associate with organizations, teams, and people to create a group of ocean-minded conservationists who’re all on the identical mission: to “sea” and be the change our oceans want. Impressed by Nationwide Oceans Month celebrated in June, we invite you to immerse in life under the floor and be impressed by our international companions, crew members, company, and neighbors becoming a member of us in making a distinction to maintain the Caribbean Sea thriving for generations to come back.
Welcoming PROTEUS™ Scientists to Sandals Royal Curaçao
Situated only a few nautical miles from the potential web site, Sandals Royal Curaçao not too long ago hosted world-renowned aquanaut Fabien Cousteau and a crew of scientists who visited one in every of their thought of places for the “International Area Station of the Ocean” referred to as PROTEUS™. The tour was supported by Sandals’ PADI-certified scuba diving program and watersports specialists, together with Company Director of Watersports Michael Clarke, who hosted the group aboard one in every of its customized and state-of-the-art Newton dive boats.
Because the world’s most superior, multi-purpose underwater habitat, PROTEUS™ is designed to drive innovation within the blue economic system, amplify ocean storytelling and allow analysis to handle urgent international points. The modular, state-of-the-art international station might be accessible to public, company, tutorial, and non revenue sectors in addition to to personal people. All only a few nautical miles from our dwelling in Curaçao, Sandals Royal Curaçao.
“Just about every little thing you like and cherish in regards to the seashore, together with the feel-good points of strolling by the shoreline, is due to the ocean. Wholesome oceans imply a wholesome future, and we’re grateful for companions like Sandals who share our ardour for taking motion to enhance them,” mentioned Cousteau.
Future Targets: Youngsters Get Inventive to Save the Sea
Additionally in Curaçao, college students throughout the island are taking recycling to the subsequent degree.
In partnership with AFC Ajax, the Sandals Basis and native Curaçao recycler Limpi, Sandals Resorts is inspiring college students to have enjoyable whereas taking plastic waste severely by Future Goals, a program that removes plastic discovered within the ocean and upcycles it into soccer objectives and nets for faculties throughout the island.
In celebration of two years of Future Targets, college students have been challenged to suppose massive and create one thing new from plastic waste and trash in a pleasant ‘Future Targets: Artwork Problem’ competitors.
The winners of the Artwork Problem and their creations have been posted on billboards throughout Curaçao throughout World Oceans Day Weekend.
A scholar presents his creation to the Future Targets: Artwork Problem panel, together with ACF Ajax Group Members and Sandals Basis employees.
A “Grande” Dedication to the Caribbean
Off the coast of Beaches Negril in Jamaica, Shark Week’s Andy Casagrande and his spouse and fellow underwater photographer, Emma Casagrande, take away invasive lionfish from close by reefs collectively with Seashores’ PADI-certified dive crew. This quickly reproducing and invasive fish species harms Caribbean ecosystems with its giant urge for food for native fish.
Eradicating the species is a obligatory step in cultivating a wholesome underwater habitat for the critters and corals indigenous to the area.
The Casagrandes additionally shared their love for the ocean with their son Ace who shortly after his tenth birthday headed again to Seashores Negril and have become a PADI Open Water Scuba Diver. It’s by no means too early for an ocean journey, and hands-on experiences like scuba diving might help increase the subsequent era of conservationists and sustainability leaders.
A ‘Blue’ Thumb: Gardening Under the Sea
Underwater in Saint Lucia, company staying in any respect three Sandals Resorts on the island are getting their fingers moist and serving to coral populations thrive by coral gardening excursions supplied on the resort’s dive outlets.
By way of a partnership with CLEAR Caribbean in Saint Lucia, the Sandals Basis has helped fund the institution of coral nurseries. Company can take the PADI Coral Restoration Course and assist the CLEAR Caribbean crew outplant and propagate coral fragments.
Higher Collectively: Celebrating PADI Ladies’s Dive Day
In relation to change, there’s energy in numbers. That’s why Sandals Resorts and PADI are captivated with making a dive group and trade the place women and men from all walks of life and backgrounds can share and discover their love for the ocean.
Placing it into motion, Sandals Ocho Rios will host the primary official occasion for PADI’s Annual Women’s Dive Day. Celebrating 10 years of the nationwide vacation, the resort and PADI will convey ladies from everywhere in the world collectively to dive deep into the waters of Jamaica, make lasting friendships with like-minded ladies, and be taught extra about how they will shield the ocean.
Natural Guardians: Mangroves Sink Their Roots
Whereas above sea degree on Sandals’ flagship island of Jamaica, Sandals Basis volunteers and resort employees are planting very important mangrove bushes alongside fragile coasts.
These impactful crops have many roles together with appearing as the best ecosystem for juvenile fish who depend on their buildings for vitamins and safety from predators.
Get Concerned
Yr spherical, Sandals Resorts and Seashores Resorts company are key to the manufacturers’ mission to hold the ocean wholesome and delightful for sea life to thrive and native communities to prosper. Coral restoration dives, lionfish looking certification and academic programs are supplied at choose resorts, giving company the chance to guard and take care of the ocean that warmly welcomes them on their Caribbean holidays.
