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Eco Dive Volunteers
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Any keen scuba diver interested in marine conservation can enjoy the subsidised scuba diving experiences afforded by Eco Diving volunteering.
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 Mediterranean countries due to poor coastal zone management.
Marine biology students gain valuable fieldwork experience by taking part in 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 volunteer accommodation and with our logistical support. Students may be able to secure funding from their Universities to offset the subsidised volunteer costs.
You don’t need to be a marine biologist to become an Eco Dive Volunteer!
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N.B. PADI Open Water (or equivalent) is 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.
Ten Reasons to Join in Marine Conservation Research
as an Eco Dive Volunteer
Enjoy genuine and affordable volunteering with free research diving- Log up to 10 dives per week
- Dive the Medes Islands Marine Reserve during induction training*
- Volunteer accommodation, food and transport provided at subsidised rates**
- Assist the Silmar Project at two research stations on the Costa Brava
- Induction training on the Silmar protocol and identifying key species
- Gain practical underwater survey experience collecting scientific data on marine biodiversity
- Help to clean up deadly marine litter for Project AWARE
- Network and socialise with like-minded international scuba divers
- Log up underwater fieldwork experience for your CV
*New volunteers volunteering for at least two weeks.
**From €35 per night including Girona airport and daily transfers, and breakfast.
Assist with underwater data collection in the Mediterranean as a volunteer diver for the Silmar Project operating during May to October each year. Full training provided. Minimum commitment of two weeks. Subsidised volunteer accommodation available. This marine conservation volunteer opportunity is ideal for marine biology students to gain valuable fieldwork experience. It is also of great interest to keen scuba divers and underwater photographers who want to give something back to the marine world they love.
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.
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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. |
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