Ocean Child

Ben's Birthday 💙🌊☀️🦈🐟🌍♻️
At Ocean Child Snorkeling Adventures

08 May 2021
We ended our summer season off with a beautiful birthday for Ben💙🌊☀️🦈🐟🌍♻️

11 students had such fun in the ocean and we managed to interact safely and gently with Dave the Pyjama Cat Shark, witness all 3 fish species we chat about in the classroom, a few starfish and numerous beautiful anemone's.

You know you're changing perspectives about sharks when everyone is excited to hop into the water to swim with and meet "Dave" the Pyjama Shark. Maddie one of our studnets on the day, we have had in a previous lesson,
and her huge smile and excited facial expressions when interacting with these friendly cat sharks are just priceless.

Ben the birthday boy is going to definitely be my dive buddy in the future, when diving with all Shark species around the world. He was such a natural and so incredibly comfortable in the water.

Unfortunately during our winter months here in Cape Town the ocean water temperatures drop a little low for our students to feel comfortable, in the chilly conditions. Our top priorities at Ocean Child is Safety and Comfortability for our children in the ocean environment.

We will be continuing our lessons towards Spring 2021 September.
Stay tuned, as we have loads of new equipment, we have new venues and new ocean environments to explore.

We are making positive changes for the sustainability of our Oceans and our Planet through educating the future generation of this world, in the most fun and enjoyable environment.

Thank you once again to everyone that has supported Ocean Child this season and always.
My life's passion, for children, for the ocean, for this planet, and everyone and everything living here. Live a positive impactful lifestyle. 💙🌊☀️🦈🐟🌍♻️

Much Ocean Love
Nina

OCEAN CHILD 💙🐬🐟🦈🌍☀️♻️🌊

today we ended our summer season of Ocean Child Snorkeling Adventures with an epic day!!!!! 🌊💙☀️🌍🌍🐟♻️🐬♻️🐬☀️💙🌧❄
We had a large group of students that all did extremely well in the colder weather conditions. We managed to interact with a large pyjama cat shark and all our children out a real close up friendly interaction...

We are looking forward to the Spring of 2021... stay tuned on our page on Facebook for today's uploads of pics and footage that we'll put up soonest.
In the meantime heres some classroom pics.

Thank you to everyone that has supported our Ocean Child Snorkeling Adventures.

We are Teaching children about the Ocean, by Experiencing the Environment in a safe and professional manner,
Creating a Love for its Beauty and Protecting it through Education 💙☀️🐬♻️🐟🌍🌊🦈

Hey All our Ocean Child Adventurers! 🌊💙😊☀️🛥🐟🌍♻️

We are slowly coming to the end of our Summer Season....😔😔

The water temperatures in False Bay - Cape Town have significantly dropped and we are sadly having to end our snorkeling lessons for the little ones for this summer, as soon as our environmental conditions improve towards Spring- August-September we are going to have the most epic Summer of 2021 into 2022!!!

NEW EQUIPMENT NEW VENUES AND NEW ADVENTURES! 🌍🐟💙🌊🐠🐬🐟🐋🐳🦈

Our last few booked lessons/parties will be taking place on the 3rd and 8th of May. (Parents have been notified of the water chill factor)

Our main goal at Ocean Child is for children to have the most positive experience in the ocean with its animals, to create a love for it, to protect it into the future.
We believe that in colder conditions the smaller/younger children wont have the most positive experience and they will feel rather uncomfortable.

We always say that
Comfortability is Key!
We are highly focused on making our children as comfortable as possible with their equipment, understanding their environment and being as independent as possible in the water, with professional instructors and the highest safety measures in place.
Once they comfortable.... they have soooooooo much Fun!!!🌊😊🙌because of the confidence they have built in the new skill they have learned.

⭐⭐⭐We have some exciting ideas for the colder period we are heading towards....
for the Women of the World⭐⭐⭐⭐
So Mom's, Girls, Best Friends, stay tuned.....
we want to Empower Women that have wanted to try Snorkleing in the Ocean for Years and create an affordable, super personallized (2-3studnets) on an Ocean Adventure. (we looking at 16years and upward)
Where you'll be able to experience diving with marine animals, our endemic cat shark species and the beautiful kelp forests of the Cape. In a safe and professional environment.
We'll have more details on this soon.... 🌊💙🦈🌍♻️🐋🐟🐬🐠🌊⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Thank you everyone that has supported Ocean Child this far. We believe we have made some positive changes in our children's lives,
to not only love our Oceans,
but build their confidence in water environments
and overcome fears through Education.

Since October 2018 when Ocean Child was Established we have taught almost 500 studnets, we are looking forward to many more Ocean Child Adventures with you all 💙😊

Much Ocean Love
Nina

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MORNING 🌍😊☀️🌊💙🦈🙌🐟🧜‍♂️
Ocean Child Adventurers!
For those who enquired yesterday..
I was in the middle of the Ocean Diving with some of our Beautiful Blue Sharks out of cellphone range.

I had loads of enquiries, emails, missed calls and messages yesterday for snorkeling lessons. I promise to try get back to everyone today if I have your details. If you phoned to enquire and I missed your call, please send me a WhatsApp or Email with your name attached and we can make an Ocean Child Snorkeling Adventure happen!
Check out our ****Photo Album Section for information**** +27 (0) 82 789 7137
[email protected] 🌍😊☀️🌊💙🦈🙌🐟🧜‍♂️

For our new followers.
Hi My name is Nina and I am the Founder and Owner of Ocean Child Snorkeling Adventures Cape Town.
I also work for Shark Explorers Dive Centre -Simonstown as a Captain, Dive Master, Dive Instructor and Shark Specialist.

So inbetween our Ocean Child Snorkeling Lessons I also head out to sea on nice weather days when we have clients and dive with other species of sharks here in Cape Town.
Yesterday we went offshore at 06:00am, approximately 30kilometres off Cape Point (the south western most Tip Of Africa) with a group of divers to go find the most beautiful cobalt blue Blue Sharks.
Over the last 10 years of diving offshore we have definitely seen decline of animals, which causes massive imbalance in our ecosystem, its also Due to numerous factors like overfishing, environmental changes etc.

We struggled to find our finned friends on yesterday's trip and at almost dark we managed to find 2 Blue Sharks for our clients to dive with. It was a long day and I hit land again at 19:30pm....

I do apologize having missed some enquiries yesterday, but we'll chat today and make some Ocean Experiences happen.

(P.S: the last picture was us coming home in the dark last night ...). 🌊🦈💙☀️🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙

Much Ocean love
Nina

Saturday 10th April
1pm Afternoon Snorkel Adventure
@ Long Beach Simonstown with this awesome group of studnets 🌊💙☀️🐟🌍😊

We had 5 new students that were so sweet and curious about the Ocean Environment we were going to experience on this day.

This wonderful family travelled all the way from Parow to come and join us at Ocean Child Snorkeling Adventures and we are so grateful, we are also so happy and stoked with the amazing feedback from the Mom that the children had the beat experience ever, and that's what we are striving for 😊🌍💙🌊☀️🐟🦈🌊☀️🐟💙🌍☀️🐟😊

We managed to interact and view 3 different Dark Shy sharks, ( amongst loads of other species of fish) which I think was a massive highlight for our studnets. For them to never experienced these animals before and be so confident, respectful and fearless was just amazing.
For me especially, as changing perspectives on the Ocean and its animals (like sharks) is such a positive move in the right direction.

Some of these children had never worn a wetsuit before, nor masks or snorkels and they all managed to gain this new skill in the very first lesson. Some of our students on the day were eventually snorkeling on their own with absolute natural confidence and independence.

Thank you Mandy for joining us, we are blown away by these incredible kids.

To book your lesson check out out Photo Album Section for more information.

Much Ocean Love
Nina
😊🐟☀️🌍💙🌊🦈🌊💙🌍☀️😊🐟🌍💙🌊🦈

Ocean Child Snorkeling Adventure yesterday
Thursday 08 April 2021 🌊🐟💙☀️😊🌍🦈

Our 5 students were absolutely amazing in the ocean yesterday! They were so natural in the water and were very extremly competent in their snorkeling skills plus super adventurous in the mini kelp forest where we found all our species of fish we spoke about in the classroom.

We were also fortunate enough to find one of our super friendly Pyjama Cat Sharks to gently and safely interact with. His name is now "Jeff" the Pyjama Cat Shark. As our studnets named him. Unfortunately i discovered once we said goodbye to Jeff..... he was a girl... 🤣🤣🤣

Male sharks have claspers, which are essentially TWO "appendages" or Male outer organs that you can see below the animal. Where the females dont have anything there, or what we call a Cloaca. See the last image for a reference.

We believe that Education is key and hope you guys learnt something interesting today about boy and girl sharks.

At Ocean Child we believe in creating positive Ocean experiences for our children will create a love for the Ocean and go on to protect ot for a sustainable planet.

For more information please view our Photo Album Section on our page Ocean Child

Much Ocean Love
Nina
🌊💙🌍🦈🐟☀️