Greetings!
This Month of Saturday, October 30, 2010 don't forget the Coral Restoration Foundations Dives to support our ecosystem for generations to come. Choose your dive dates today. Space is limited to 20 divers. Dive with the Florida Marine Aquarium Society one of the oldest Marine Aquarium Society's in North America. FMAS in conjunction with AQUANAUTS SCUBA ACADEMY will be having a special dive event at the CRF dive site in Key Largo, Florida. During this event, FMAS will be planting aqua-cultured corals from the CRF site onto a specific location at Molasses Reef. This location will be designated the "Florida Marine Aquarium Society Reef". This will be the first event of its type to take place in the Florida Keys.
Diving at the Coral Restoration Foundations aqua-culture coral Key Largo Site is FMAS Diver Pedro Rivera pictured above. After completing the morning presentation by Ken Nedimyer, President of CRF divers like Pedro Rivera participated in efforts to preserve the aqua-cultured coral site, and later on the second dive plant frags to repopulate coral reefs.
Thank YOU,
AQUANAUTS is offering these exclusive specialty courses throughout the month. Take advantage of the most beautiful dive locations within the United States; the most thoroughly developed training for certification; the best opportunities for NEW specialties; and the most professionally taught classes. Courses are conducted as requested or scheduled as SOM for your convenience. Come dive with us at AQUANAUTS SCUBA ACADEMY and explore what ALL South Florida Diving has to offer!
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CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION FLORIDA
Florida Marine Aquarium Society - Ecologist & Conservationalist | |
FMAS Local Dive Trips will be ongoing to promote fun active membership to support local conservation and ecosystem restoration. Conducted monthly aboard different vessels going to different sites for coral reef and marine life surveys. Discount% on SCUBA Rental Equipment through AQUANAUTS!
FMAS & CRF would like to invite you to join us for a one-day community-based volunteer program in honor of Eco-Week in Key Largo.
This will be held at Rainbow Reef Dive Center and will include our morning lecture and two afternoon dives. This is an opportunity for friends, family, and members to volunteer and support FMAS / CRF in our efforts to restore reefs in the Florida Keys. Please visit our homepage at www.fmas1955.org to become an FMAS member; or go to CRF www.coralrestoration.org for additional information for this program and future events.
 
Next Upcoming Dive Dates: [ALL Dive Boat Trip Ticket Include (2) Tanks & CRF Donation for $60.00pp] RSVP today online to register at AQUANAUTS or 877-AQUA-TAG.
Staghorn and elkhorn corals are undersea architects, creating reef structures that support vast varieties of fish, sponges, lobsters and other marine creatures. Hit hard by disease, global warming and other stresses during the past 30 years, these corals have declined to a few isolated patches in the warm, sun-splashed waters that run from southern Palm Beach County to the islands of the Caribbean.
But beginning with a chance discovery off Key Largo, where staghorn coral was found growing in an undersea farm for commercial aquarium rock, scientists have begun raising these corals in offshore nurseries with the goal of transplanting them into the wild... (Excerpts from SunSentinel Newspaper) Coral Restoration Education & Dive Excusions are conducted throughout the year with FMAS. Get involved, get certified and make change to benefit the our world. Become a member of the oldest Marine Society established in 1955.
ADOPT - A - REEF PROGRAM:
Your patronage is vital to a sustainable ecosystem. Adopt-A-Reef program is designed to support and encourage conservation. Please help the growth of our organization through the Adopt-A-Reef Program.
RSVP today by contacting our Volunteer Coordinator or 877-AQUA-TAG.
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Devistating Caribbean
Lionfish (Pterois Volitans) have been documented along the entire United States East Coast from Florida through Massachusetts, East to Bermuda and South throughout the Bahamas and in other Caribbean Islands such as Turks and Caicos and Cuba. The expansion has been extremely rapid and exponential in scope. We have seen some Lionfish ha e been located on the Captain Dan and Sea Emperor, also some divers have seen them off Boca Artificial Reef.
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FMAS / CRF DIVE
FMAS & CRF would like to invite you to join us for a one-day community-based volunteer program in honor of Eco-Week in Key Largo. This will be held at Rainbow Reef Dive Center and will include our morning lecture and two afternoon dives. This is an opportunity for friends, family, and members to volunteer and support FMAS / CRF in our efforts to restore reefs in the Florida Keys.
$60.00pp ALL Boat Trips Include (2) Tanks and Donation to CRF. Discount% on SCUBA Rental Equipment through AQUANAUTS! Excursion Dates: Oct 30 8am-5pm Dec 11 8am-5pm RSVP today online at...
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FMAS LOCAL DIVE
Local Dive Trips will be ongoing to promote fun active membership to support local conservation and ecosystem restoration. Conducted monthly aboard different vessels going to different sites for coral reef and marine life surveys. $60.00pp ALL Boat Trips Include (2) Tanks and Donation to FMAS. Discount% on SCUBA Rental Equipment through AQUANAUTS! Excursion Dates: Nov 20 Ft. Lauderdale Hog Heaven 8am-12pm Dec 18 Ft. Lauderdale Aqua Zoo 8am-12pm RSVP today online at...
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