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Eco Dive Volunteers

Marine Research & Conservation Projects in the Mediterranean

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Any keen conservation diver can enjoy the subsidised scuba diving experiences afforded by Eco Diving volunteering.
You don’t need to be a marine biologist to become an Eco Dive Volunteer!
PADI Open Water (or equivalent) required to take part in underwater research as an Eco Dive Volunteer.
Become a certified Padi Open Water diver in the Mediterranean with English speaking instructors.
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Eco Dive volunteer, Anna Stevens, collecting data on the endangered seagrass Posidonia oceanica by Gaynor Rosier of Kenna Eco Diving Eco Dive volunteering provides an ideal opportunity for marine biology, gap-year students or anyone keen to take part in marine conservation activities to enjoy free warm water scuba diving whilst gaining an insight into the world of marine ecology. Mediterranean biodiversity is high along the Montgri coast of the Costa Brava, due to the rocky coastline that has deterred tourist development and the presence of Posidonia oceanica seagrass beds, an essential feeding and breeding habitat that has already disappeared from many Eastern and Southern Mediterranean countries due to poor coastal zone management.

Marine biology students gain valuable fieldwork experience by taking part in our marine conservation surveys for the SILMAR Project with our Eco Dive volunteers. They can also carry out their own marine research for coursework assignments whilst staying in our volunteer accommodation and with our logistical support. Students may be able to secure funding from their Universities to offset the subsidised volunteer costs.

Ten Reasons to Join in Marine Conservation Research
as a Volunteer Eco Diver

Enjoy genuine and affordable volunteering including free research diving.
Diving the Medes Islands Marine Reserve is included with your induction training.
Take part in the Silmar Project at two research stations on the Costa Brava.
Log up to 10 dives per week at no cost to you.
Volunteer accommodation provided at subsidised rates (from under €30 per night including airport and daily transfers).
Induction training on the Silmar protocol and learning to identify key species of marine flora and fauna.
Gain practical underwater survey experience collecting scientific data on marine biodiversity.
Help to clean up the marine environment and save marine life from entanglement in fishing line.
Network and socialise with like-minded divers in an international environment.
Log up underwater fieldwork experience for your CV.

POTENTIAL ECODIVERS - VIEW KEY SPECIES ON THIS WEBSITE

Marine Life Costa Brava was launched to give visitors a fascinating glimpse of the beauty of the sea life that we encounter whilst fun diving and carrying out marine conservation research on the Costa Brava. If you are considering joining us as an Eco Dive volunteer please visit this site to see photos and information on the key species that we are monitoring for the Silmar Project.

Testimonial

We're divers. What does the sea do for us? So much, of course (adventure, pleasure, well-being, quality of life) but increasingly the question is not what the sea can do for us, but what we can do for the sea? How can we pay back some of its generosity?

The answer to this is remarkably easy. By eco-diving, which is what I did this summer with Kenna Eco-diving in L'Escala on Spain's Costa Brava. Free diving in return for the most rewarding work I've done for a long time, in or out of the water. From laying out transects to counting black and brown urchins, from identifying and mapping precious and false coral to recovering trash from the sea bed - I learned more about the marine environment in one week in August than in my previous four years' of diving.

If you truly care about the sea, eco-diving with Kenna under the skilled guidance of Marine Research Coordinator Gaynor Rosier is one way of turning that care into meaningful action. Robin Walker

If you can’t join us as an Eco Diver but wish to support marine conservation, use our link to do your on-line shopping. There’s no extra cost and it helps to fund subsidised places for Eco divers assisting with marine conservation projects.