Join a local marine conservation project that involves research and restoration dives, learning about initiatives, and making a difference in community efforts.

The program is structured over 4 weeks, which you can join for one week or more as well as add any duration for required dive courses. The longer you stay, the more conservation topics and initiatives you can get involved in.

Each week combines lectures with dives and activities with a specific conservation focus. Here is an outline of what’s typically involved, which can vary throughout the year depending on the research and activities undertaken by the project:

- Reef health surveys 
- Biorock coral rehabilitation and coral nursery
- Artificial reef construction/maintenance
- Mooring buoy installation
- Giant clam nursery
- Sea turtle ‘head starter program’ and releases
- Surveys and monitoring of specific species including seahorses, invertebrates, and coral predators such as the crown of thorns starfish
- Water testing
- Coral spawning capture and culture
- Erosion control

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