Letters Divemaster Internship Wanted Hello there!
My name is Saroya, I am from the Netherlands and my biggest passion in life is diving. Last year I finished my bachelor study Facility Management and have been working for almost 6 months. But I quit my job and decided to follow my biggest dream, to go travelling and diving again and hope te become a good divemaster soon.
I started travelling half of february and like to start with the divemaster course around the beginning of May (earlier/later is also possible).
Because I am travelling on a low budget I am looking for a place where I can work for my divemastercourse. It will also give me a lot more experience.
Maybe it is good to know that I already have done my Open Water, Advanced, EFR and medical examination. I'm looking for a free divemaster course while I work for you to pay it off.
Sincerely,
Saroya de Vries Can you help Saroya? Contact news@scubatravel.co.uk.
Diving with Sharks - Good or Bad? Does diving with sharks and rays affect their behaviour? 
Shark and ray tourism generates thousands of millions of dollars globally each year and, says WWF, it is growing substantially. Florida alone generates more than $221 million in shark diving revenue per year. Businesses around the world provide a variety of activities that allow people to get close to sharks and rays, ranging from boat-based spotting to guided snorkelling, cage viewing experiences and scuba diving. If current trends continue, the numbers of shark related tourism could more than double over the next twenty years. Is this a good thing or a bad thing for the sharks? Research published this month by American scientists finds that scuba divers can repeatedly interact with reef sharks without affecting the behaviour of the shark in the long term. Well-regulated shark diving tourism can be accomplished without undermining conservation goals. So, how can divers and dive operators ensure that they dive with sharks responsibly? The WWF, Project Aware and the Manta Trust have produced a Guide to shark and ray tourism. 
Advice from the Guide to Responsible Shark and Ray Tourism to Dive Operators - Operate a code of conduct to reduce pollution from vessels, discarded waste and plastics, physical and chemical damage such as boat strikes, breaking off coral and damage from sunscreen.
- Avoid touching the animals or altering their habitat which could ultimately damage the resources upon which the tourism businesses are based.
- Think several times before feeding or “provisioning” sharks. Provisioning may lead to animals begging from tourists, and becoming aggressive if they aren't satisfied.
- Proactively support conservation of the habitats and species on which your business depends. Marine protected areas (MPAs), which limit or restrict activities that affect marine life within a defined area, are one widely adopted conservation tool. In Palau, shark diving within the MPA is popular because the white tip and grey reef sharks are predictable, relatively numerous and spend most of their lives in the one area.
- Customers want the best experience they can get, so it's important staff training goes beyond safety and customer service. Staff should receive a comprehensive induction into the business; and this should be followed by regular training and updates on the latest science, management practices, conservation and regulatory issues.
- Use eco-accreditation, such as that from Green Fins,
You can take a self-assessment survey to see how you score as a dive operator. The guide also provides a suite of free, practical, downloadable tools that can be used by operators, NGOs, local communities and resource managers. Further Reading Diving with Sharks - Good or Bad, SCUBA News March 2017 Bradley D, Papastamatiou YP, Caselle JE (2017) No persistent behavioural effects of SCUBA diving on reef sharks. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 567:173-184. Dive the World's Top 10 - 25% off Belize Liveaboard
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Experimental installations of 3D-printed reefs are now being implemented in the Mediterranean, Caribbean, Persian Gulf and Australia. |  | Obscure plankton that influences climate, ocean ecosystems, and perhaps even evolution
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Most current fishing practices are neither economically nor biologically sustainable. Every year, the world spends 80 billion dollars buying fish that cost 105 billion dollars to catch, even as heavy fishing places growing pressure on stocks that are already struggling with warmer, more acidic oceans. How have we developed an industry that is so wasteful, and why has it been so difficult to alter the trajectory toward species extinction? |
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