Dive With Sam

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I am an English Dive Instructor currently on Tortola, British Virgin Islands �

Offering courses from Try Scuba all the way up to Dive-Master!

SSI Dive Pro: 73314

New study predicts the ocean ecosystem will collapse this decade 17/06/2020

When the Ocean dies, we all die!
- Commentary by Captain Paul Watson

Year after year for decades I have been warning about the collapse of marine eco-systems.

We are witnessing the killing of diversity of life in the sea through over-fishing, illegal fishing, plastic, sonic, chemical and radiation pollution, coral bleaching, acidification and all accelerated by climate change.

For years I have stated over and over again that 2030 will be the date when the collapse will become irreversible.

In 2015 at COP 21, I delivered a warning with a request for a 50-year moratorium on all heavy-gear commercial fishing operations and an end to government subsidies on corporate fishing.

For years we have called for the strict enforcement of marine conservation laws and regulations.

Unfortunately, there is a severe lack of political and economic motivation to address the problem. Instead, we saw last week the President of the United States open up the only high seas sanctuary on the Atlantic coast to commercial fishing in opposition to a Supreme Court decision that it remain closed.

Poachers are running amuck on the high seas and the world's navies ignore them as they play silly little war games with each other over political power and corporate control of resources.

Without phytoplankton, there will be a depletion of oxygen. Without the fishes, the entire global marine eco-system will collapse.

We don't survive on a planet with a dead ocean.

Ocean conservation is one of the most important causes in the world today. Failure to act now will have devastating and dark consequences.

This is why our ships are battling poachers along the coastlines of Africa. This is why we are intercepting poachers in the Galapagos Marine Reserve and patrolling the waters of the Eastern Tropical Pacific, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and the Southern Ocean. This is why Sea Shepherd volunteers are cleaning beaches around the globe, diving and removing abandoned nets and opposing the destruction caused by open-net fish farms. This is why we defend whales, seals, dolphins, turtles, sea birds, fishes and marine eco-systems.

And I'll keep hammering home this one imperative message - When the Ocean dies, we all die!

New study predicts the ocean ecosystem will collapse this decade "This new research reinforces that, after we are through this extremely difficult time, we will need renewed ambitious action to address the climate and nature crisis."

11/06/2020
Microplastics discovered in new deep sea species • Dive SSI 16/05/2020

"Only five centimetres tall, its home in about 6,500 meters depth in the Pacific Ocean and it still has plastic in its body"

Microplastics discovered in new deep sea species • Dive SSI Researchers officially name flea cancer “Plasticus” Only five centimetres tall, its home in about 6,500 meters depth in the Pacific Ocean and it still has plastic in its body: Eurythenes plasticus. The newly discovered deep-sea species is a species of amphipod that researchers at Newcastle Unive...

03/05/2020

Hi Guys,

Firstly, I hope you are all surviving the boredom at home and motivating yourself to keep busy during this crazy time!

Secondly, I am in the early stages of planning a dive trip for when this is all over and want to gauge interest.

I do already have a few people who are interested.

This trip will be open to ALL levels.

For those of you with an Open water certificate or higher, there will be daily guided dives & potential for some continued education. (Advanced course, deep diving, nitrox, solo diving, stress & rescue etc etc etc) "PM for details"

For beginners and first-timers we can discuss your training options if you send me a PM. (There is even a possibility of starting the theory online during this quarantine to get a head start)

All being well I'm hoping to run this trip around August / September time and we will be heading back to where it all started for me.....

Dahab, Egypt

Dahab has a special place in my heart as it is where I first learnt to dive and it changed my life forever. I would love to share this place with some of you and show you some of the most beautiful diving the world.

Any questions please shoot me a message & share this to anyone who you think might be interested in coming along.

Cheers guys, see you underwater soon!

24/04/2020
Worldwide Dive Team - We are SSI 08/04/2020

As soon as this s**t is all over I will be teaching again, most likely in Portugal so anyone looking to get in the water ASAP give me a shout!

Also................. I would love to see some diving Videos/Pictures that any of you guys have.

I miss the Water!!!

Stay safe out there x

Worldwide Dive Team - We are SSI For more than 45 years, SSI has provided training, scuba diving certification, and educational resources for divers, dive instructors, dive centers and resor...

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