The document discusses plans to create artificial reefs and underwater sculpture gardens in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) to enhance the environment, tourism industry, and local economy. A group of stakeholders in the BVI, including dive operators, artists, conservationists, and government officials, are working together on proposals to remove abandoned vessels from shorelines and sink them to form new reef structures, as well as establish an underwater sculpture garden near Cooper Island. While the projects face challenges around funding, approvals, and logistics, supporters believe they could have significant environmental and economic benefits for the BVI if successfully implemented.
2008 Personal Watercraft Safety Review for Big Wave Surfing and Tow SurfingK 38
2008 Review of the year regarding big wave surfing safety and personal watercraft use for tow surfing and or rescue applications by K38's founder, Shawn Alladio a world authority subject matter expert regarding RWC usage
2008 Personal Watercraft Safety Review for Big Wave Surfing and Tow SurfingK 38
2008 Review of the year regarding big wave surfing safety and personal watercraft use for tow surfing and or rescue applications by K38's founder, Shawn Alladio a world authority subject matter expert regarding RWC usage
Masterclass Our Oceans Challenge / Thursday 23 February 2017Maurice Jansen
The theme of the Masterclass of Thursday 23 February centered around Our Oceans Challenge, a crowdsourcing initiative of a number of leading Dutch maritime and offshore companies and knowledge partners. The aim is to generate as much as feasible ideas towards five major challenges. In two sequential masterclasses, approximately 100 students and young professionals of Rotterdam Mainport University, Netherlands Maritime University and YoungShip Rotterdam engaged in brainstorm sessions leading to concrete ideas. All of these activities were then posted on the online crowdsourcing platform.
World oceans cover roughly 70% of planet and provide thè source of live on Earth. Following the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) the seabed area and its mineral resources are declared as the heritage of mankind. Despite or maybe because of the common right of access to the sea and its resources, our oceans are under pressure. Ecosystems are slow to recover because of exploitation from activities onshore, offshore or from relentless fishery. And yet, it provides for millions and millions of people’s quality of life, employment and existence. Our Oceans Challenge (OOC) believes that despite the challenges, there are opportunities to balance ocean protection with the responsible use and exploitation of ocean space and resources. OOC calls upon the industry to show its responsibility and time to generate breakthrough ideas. The aim is to accelerate innovative and sustainable ideas into viable business.
As an introduction Dr Luc Cuyvers - with his passion for the sea and track record as a documentary maker, author and ocean and marine researcher – provided the audience with an anthology of the issues that he has witnessed in the past 35 to 40 years in his career. Subsequently to Cuyvers’ introduction presentation, Mattijs Bolk, one of the driving forces behind OOC explained how this crowdsourcing initiative started. The ambition is in line with the Sustainable Development Goals, especially Living Oceans. Heerema Contractors took this open innovation initiative last year and this year invited other offshore contractors, knowledge partners and launch partners to join. The biggest challenge for the industry is to develop sustainable business models.
With these challenges students and young maritime professionals went along and engaged in creative brainstorming process, facilitated by people from Our Oceans Challenge. The workshop outputs consisted of various rough ideas that were immediately posted on the OOC open innovation platform. Good ideas are taken further in this platform, enriched with the expertise, insights and thoughts of other industry specialists. From the current 111 ideas, the best ideas will be taken into the development phase, and accelerate into ready-to-use business solutions. All students who are active on the platform will be able to follow how these ideas find its ways to a sustainable offshore industry.
Report - Towards a Sustainable Blue EconomyLeonard
Leonard, the VINCI Group's foresight and innovation platform, and Sustainable Ocean Alliance (SOA), an association specialising in responsible innovation in the maritime sector, publish a report on the sustainable blue economy. The result of a year-long process of reflection that began in March 2022 with the launch of a series of events that ran until October, this report highlights the assets of the seas and oceans, which are essential vectors for the ecological transition.
Planning, Design, Construction, Repair and Renovation of Docks and MarinasDocks & Marinas, Inc.
Here's the coarse notes of my two days of instruction to engineers and planners March 4-5, 2019 in Richmond, British Columbia. What a beautiful area of the world.
Descriptive Essay - At the Beach - A-Level English - Marked by Teachers.com. How To Start A Descriptive Essay About The Beach. Short descriptive essay beach. Descriptive writing essay on the beach. Descriptive Essay On The Beach : Conclusion for a descriptive essay .... Descriptive Essay On The Beach. Essay about a beach - oedipusessays.web.fc2.com.
The group’s main focus was to provide awareness on what trash was in our oceans. Through this project, the group members realized that cigarette butts, candy wrappers, and plastic were the three items that were most concerning.
Dear friends and colleagues,
With pride, I welcome you to Matters Academy’s booklet, "Why The Ocean Matters".
Hong Kong and our surrounding seas have provided us with a livelihood for generations. We have achieved international importance because of our relationship with the ocean. Our Fragrant Harbour and our bond to the Greater Bay Area are home to more than 30 million people and play an ever-expanding role in global development.
We rely on the oceans for food, transportation, and recreation. And yet, our oceans are under substantial threat. How can we not put our concern on the ocean and our future?
World Ocean Day is upcoming on 8 June. We take this opportunity to commemorate World Ocean Day by this booklet sharing the work of ten leading individuals and their organizations affecting ocean change in Southeast Asia.
We celebrate and dive into the work of Ocean Warriors, Thailand Manta Project, saving corals in the Philippines, OceansAsia, the Shark Foundation, Conservation of Green Sea Turtles, Bloom Association in HK, and CITES Enforcement.
We also provide the latest insights on underwater ecology: how do fish feel? What do they know? the benefits of the ocean ecosystem, fish stock depletion, and coral reef ecology.
Lastly, let's work toward the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal 14, Life Below Water, to embark on our journey echoing "Why The Ocean Matters".
Welcome.
Chapter volunteers participated in a public charette in Seaside Heights on October 29 to support the non-profit, Architecture for Humanity. AfH is working with the community to design a new event center on the boardwalk in Seaside Heights. The event center will be funded with money raised by MTV after Superstorm Sandy damaged the Seaside Heights boardwalk.
Masterclass Our Oceans Challenge / Thursday 23 February 2017Maurice Jansen
The theme of the Masterclass of Thursday 23 February centered around Our Oceans Challenge, a crowdsourcing initiative of a number of leading Dutch maritime and offshore companies and knowledge partners. The aim is to generate as much as feasible ideas towards five major challenges. In two sequential masterclasses, approximately 100 students and young professionals of Rotterdam Mainport University, Netherlands Maritime University and YoungShip Rotterdam engaged in brainstorm sessions leading to concrete ideas. All of these activities were then posted on the online crowdsourcing platform.
World oceans cover roughly 70% of planet and provide thè source of live on Earth. Following the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) the seabed area and its mineral resources are declared as the heritage of mankind. Despite or maybe because of the common right of access to the sea and its resources, our oceans are under pressure. Ecosystems are slow to recover because of exploitation from activities onshore, offshore or from relentless fishery. And yet, it provides for millions and millions of people’s quality of life, employment and existence. Our Oceans Challenge (OOC) believes that despite the challenges, there are opportunities to balance ocean protection with the responsible use and exploitation of ocean space and resources. OOC calls upon the industry to show its responsibility and time to generate breakthrough ideas. The aim is to accelerate innovative and sustainable ideas into viable business.
As an introduction Dr Luc Cuyvers - with his passion for the sea and track record as a documentary maker, author and ocean and marine researcher – provided the audience with an anthology of the issues that he has witnessed in the past 35 to 40 years in his career. Subsequently to Cuyvers’ introduction presentation, Mattijs Bolk, one of the driving forces behind OOC explained how this crowdsourcing initiative started. The ambition is in line with the Sustainable Development Goals, especially Living Oceans. Heerema Contractors took this open innovation initiative last year and this year invited other offshore contractors, knowledge partners and launch partners to join. The biggest challenge for the industry is to develop sustainable business models.
With these challenges students and young maritime professionals went along and engaged in creative brainstorming process, facilitated by people from Our Oceans Challenge. The workshop outputs consisted of various rough ideas that were immediately posted on the OOC open innovation platform. Good ideas are taken further in this platform, enriched with the expertise, insights and thoughts of other industry specialists. From the current 111 ideas, the best ideas will be taken into the development phase, and accelerate into ready-to-use business solutions. All students who are active on the platform will be able to follow how these ideas find its ways to a sustainable offshore industry.
Report - Towards a Sustainable Blue EconomyLeonard
Leonard, the VINCI Group's foresight and innovation platform, and Sustainable Ocean Alliance (SOA), an association specialising in responsible innovation in the maritime sector, publish a report on the sustainable blue economy. The result of a year-long process of reflection that began in March 2022 with the launch of a series of events that ran until October, this report highlights the assets of the seas and oceans, which are essential vectors for the ecological transition.
Planning, Design, Construction, Repair and Renovation of Docks and MarinasDocks & Marinas, Inc.
Here's the coarse notes of my two days of instruction to engineers and planners March 4-5, 2019 in Richmond, British Columbia. What a beautiful area of the world.
Descriptive Essay - At the Beach - A-Level English - Marked by Teachers.com. How To Start A Descriptive Essay About The Beach. Short descriptive essay beach. Descriptive writing essay on the beach. Descriptive Essay On The Beach : Conclusion for a descriptive essay .... Descriptive Essay On The Beach. Essay about a beach - oedipusessays.web.fc2.com.
The group’s main focus was to provide awareness on what trash was in our oceans. Through this project, the group members realized that cigarette butts, candy wrappers, and plastic were the three items that were most concerning.
Dear friends and colleagues,
With pride, I welcome you to Matters Academy’s booklet, "Why The Ocean Matters".
Hong Kong and our surrounding seas have provided us with a livelihood for generations. We have achieved international importance because of our relationship with the ocean. Our Fragrant Harbour and our bond to the Greater Bay Area are home to more than 30 million people and play an ever-expanding role in global development.
We rely on the oceans for food, transportation, and recreation. And yet, our oceans are under substantial threat. How can we not put our concern on the ocean and our future?
World Ocean Day is upcoming on 8 June. We take this opportunity to commemorate World Ocean Day by this booklet sharing the work of ten leading individuals and their organizations affecting ocean change in Southeast Asia.
We celebrate and dive into the work of Ocean Warriors, Thailand Manta Project, saving corals in the Philippines, OceansAsia, the Shark Foundation, Conservation of Green Sea Turtles, Bloom Association in HK, and CITES Enforcement.
We also provide the latest insights on underwater ecology: how do fish feel? What do they know? the benefits of the ocean ecosystem, fish stock depletion, and coral reef ecology.
Lastly, let's work toward the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal 14, Life Below Water, to embark on our journey echoing "Why The Ocean Matters".
Welcome.
Chapter volunteers participated in a public charette in Seaside Heights on October 29 to support the non-profit, Architecture for Humanity. AfH is working with the community to design a new event center on the boardwalk in Seaside Heights. The event center will be funded with money raised by MTV after Superstorm Sandy damaged the Seaside Heights boardwalk.
1. www.vipropertyyacht.com February 2013
15
Fishermen have their concerns, as do taxi drivers, charter
yacht operators, supermarket workers and so on. In a small
community such as this, of course, a Venn diagram of each of
these interests would always intersect with all the others, such
is the degree of interconnectedness and interdependence.
If the dive operators do well, then so do the taxi drivers, the
supermarkets, the hotel owners, the gas stations and the ferry
companies.
In a creative and entrepreneurial community such as
ours, ideas bubble to the surface and catch the attention of
people in many and diverse fields. Such an idea occurred to
Nagy Darwish, a surgeon who arrived in the BVI to practice
medicine and enjoy the pleasures of the country’s waters,
particularly the parts beneath the surface. His experiences
diving and his appreciation of the beauty to be found in
the depths, contrasted with the views of wrecked cars and
abandoned vessels scattered about the island, prompted the
thought that it might be practical to take all these wrecks and
put them beneath the water, and thus solve two problems at
once: what to do with the abandoned vehicles, and how to
create more, and more varied, dive sites. Eureka! But further
examination made it clear that the costs of preparing vehicles
for submersion were prohibitive—all that oil and rubber and
asbestos had to be eliminated before they could be dropped
into the deep.
But a process had been started. In conversation with friends
and colleagues in his Rotary group, Dr. Darwish learned that he
wasn’t the only person thinking about this subject. There was
concern about the rusting hulks sunk by Hurricane Earl in 2010
lined up along the waterfront at Baugher’s Bay. Some people
were thinking about ways to enhance the attractiveness of the
islands to tourists—perhaps a sculpture garden underwater?
High Hopes
in DEEP Water
Clean-up project seeks supportBy David Blacklock
The British Virgin Islands can often appear to be
a community of varied interests vying with one
another for attention.
Abandoned vessels like
this catamaran litter
Baughers Bay.
Photos by Dan O’Connor.
2. 16 VI PROPERTY & YACHT Published by aLookingGlass Ltd.
The sculpture garden plan had been initiated by Trellis
Bay entrepreneur and artist, Aragorn Dick-Read, who had
envisaged an underwater feature that would attract tourists
and locals alike. Presented to the BVI Dive Operators’
Association, the idea began to take shape. As a way to build
up artificial reefs, the sculpture garden has many positive
attributes. It serves as a focus for snorkelers and divers,
as a revenue enhancer for the territory, as an educational
point of focus, and most important, as the basis for new
reef structures which create new environments for fish
to flourish. I recently spoke with Casey McNutt, president
of the Dive Operators’Association, who told me, “We feel
really thankful to Aragorn for trusting us to run this thing.”
While there is still discussion regarding the subjects of the
sculptures, the consensus seems to lean towards imagery
that is iconic for the BVI. As for timing, Casey said, “We’d
like to see it up and running for next season. If we can get
approval for the project we’ll be able to go ahead and raise
the money for it.”And as for location, Cooper Island seems to
be getting the nod.
While the sculpture garden is no slam-dunk, it seems
more immediately attainable than the plan to remove
and sink the rusting hulks that litter the shoreline around
Baugher’s Bay. Any attempt to remove the vessels could be
fraught with difficulties since the hulls have been breached
Rotarians gather at The Moorings for a
lunchtime meeting.
3. www.vipropertyyacht.com February 2013
17
and corrosion might cause the hulls to collapse as they are
being moved. Furthermore, it seems that squatters have moved
aboard and are living on these wrecks, with little effort being
made to remove them. The ownership of the wrecks hasn’t been
established either, so there may be claims of damage should
they be moved. None of these problems are insurmountable,
but it will take a concerted, long-term effort of all participants
to make it happen. Nor will it be cheap, since the flotation and
transportation of fragile hulks will require more than a tug and
a length of rope—flotation bags, spill collars and the like will
require expertise and funds.
With enthusiastic participants from a variety of sources,
such as the Dive Operators—in the person of Casey McNutt,
Dr. Darwish, Abby O’Neal and Charlotte McDevitt from Green
VI, and with the support the members of Rotary, Governor,
Boyd McCleary; Minister for Natural Resources and Labour Dr.
Pickering; members of the Conservation and Fisheries Dept,
members of the Tourist Board and others, the plan has a real
hope of, stage-by-stage, coming to fruition. Who could object
to a plan that simultaneously kills two birds and hatches a third
(or is that a fourth)?
Of course, a clever idea is worth nothing unless there is
effort behind it to bring it to life. Such is the position at the
moment—the effort is beginning to gain organization and
As a way to build
up artificial reefs,
the sculpture
garden has many
positive attributes.
4. 18 VI PROPERTY & YACHT Published by aLookingGlass Ltd.
momentum. Discussions about how to make
these things happen and who would be best
suited to oversee the effort are underway.
What isn’t in doubt is the worthiness of
the plans. The principals involved are in
a holding pattern as they await decisions
from a number of sources. Dr. Darwish is
in the UK for an extended period and is
actively seeking assistance there. Rotary has
a major meeting in May and decisions made
there may affect the future of the various
concepts. Where the projects go and how
they get there will be the subject of further
articles as we attempt to follow these
promising initiatives to their completion.
Deralict vessels polute
Baughers Bay waters.