Environmental Organizations Announce Seminar Schedule for DEMA
Green groups want to help you improve your business and ensure the oceans health
In a concerted effort to support sustainable oceans and the dive industry, major government and environmental organizations have come together to announce a full schedule of seminars designed to demonstrate the economic importance of a healthy ocean on a dive operator’s bottom line. Starting Wednesday afternoon, dive operators, travel, and dive professionals will have the opportunity to hear ideas from a variety of environmental leaders on how to put environmental awareness and education to work for them with different business models designed to get people in the water while ensuring the ocean resources will be sustained for generations to come.
Wednesday, October 31
Project AWARE Foundation – “5 Ways to Capture the "New" AWARE Diver” 2:00- 3:00 PM, RM S220C
Oceana – “What’s Good for the Oceans is Good for Diving” 4-5pm, RM S310C
Thursday, November 1
Dive Training Magazine – “Marketing the Environment: Turning Tree-Hugging Into Business Opportunity” 3:00-4:00pm, RM S210C
Project AWARE - “5 Ways to Capture the "New" AWARE Diver” 11:00–12:00 AM, RM S220C and 3:00 – 4:00 PM, RM S220A/B
REEF – “One Fish, Two Fish: A New Reef Fish Identification Course” 2:00-3:00PM, RM S310E
Friday, November 2
The Keys Association of Dive Operators &NOAA National Marine Sanctuary Program present "Go Green, Dive Blue; Making the Environment Work for You" 2-4pm, RM S310F,
The Nature Conservancy "Coral Bleaching Monitoring Throughout South Florida" 10:00–11:00 AM, RM S310F
Project AWARE Foundation - “Your Shark Encounters Matter: The Global Shark Assessment w/ Christine Ward-Page from Dalhousie”10:00–11:00 AM, RM S210C
REEF – “One Fish, Two Fish: A New Reef Fish Identification Course” 1:00-2:00 PM, RM S310B
Project Aware Foundation – “Monitor Coral Reefs: Project AWARE’s Coral Watch Workshop”
2:00-5:00 PM, RM S220 A/B ($25 charge)
Beautiful Oceans—“Catch the Growing Eco-Diving Wave with the Beautiful Oceans Coral Reef Biology Program & Resort Package 2008” 4:00-5:00 PM,Rm S310F
Saturday, November 3
REEF – “One Fish, Two Fish: A New Reef Fish Identification Course” 1:00-2:00 PM, Rm S310B
Other DEMA environmental happenings:
Representatives from the Reef Check Foundation will be on hand distributing copies of the International Reef Check Declaration of Reef Rights for signing. The purpose of this pledge is to highlight the tremendous value of coral reefs and to encourage all people and governments to support coral reef conservation. Reef Check will be presenting the signed Declaration to all coral reef country governments in January 2009. Look for the Declaration at booths throughout DEMA.
International Year of the Reef coordinator, Francis Staub will be available at the /Project Aware Foundation counter in the PADI Booth(#1319) on the mornings of November 1st and 2nd. For more information about IYOR 2008, please visit www.iyor.org.
Sustainable Travel International President and co-founder, Brian Mullis, will be available at the National Marine Sanctuary Booth (#2405) on Friday morning (10-12 a.m.) to answer questions about sustainable travel options and business tools for ‘greening’ your dive business. Find out more at: www.sustainabletravelinternational.org.
For more information on the seminars visit the following groups online or at their DEMA booths:
Beautiful Oceans – Booth 1591 or www.beautifuloceans.com
Coral Reef Alliance – www.coralreefalliance.org
Divers Alert Network – Booths 2239 and 2249 or www.diversalertnetwork.org
Keys Association of Dive Operators - www.divekeys.com
Dive Training Magazine – Booth 313 or www.dtmag.com
NOAA National Marine Sanctuary Program – Booth 2405 or http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov
Oceana – Booth 540 or www.oceana.org
Project AWARE Foundation – Counter in the PADI booth 1319 or www.projectaware.org
Reef Environmental Educational Foundation (REEF) – Booth 1133 or www.reef.org
Reef Check Foundation – Contact Chris Knight at 310-962-7404 or www.reefcheck.org
Sustainable Travel International—www.sustainabletravelinternational.org
The Nature Conservancy – Booth 2409 or at www.nature.org/florida
We’re all concerned about the oceans futures, and together, we can do something about it.