“There used to be so much more coral.”
“There used to be so many more fish.”
“The water used to be so clear.”
Typical comments from divers having dived for a decade
In September 2019, Dr. Austin Gallagher, Chief Scientist and CEO of an organization called Beneath the Waves reached out to us to talk about helping them with their mission to
As a coral reef scientist, it is my mission to dive in as many unique places around the world to gain a global perspective on coral reef ecology and their condition. My work primarily focuses in the Western Atlantic and Caribbean, which is a very different system than the Western Pacific.
Project Baseline Sardinia has developed exponentially in the last 4-5 years, going from a friendly meet up in the beautiful location of Cala Gonone, to a lot more organized and structured campaign dedicated to conservation and scientific research.
This Year Project Baseline Oslo volunteers were able to visit a high school in Drammen to give a presentation about micro plastics and cleaning up our oceans to two senior classes.
Our Fiji mission ran for 14 days from Monday, May 14 to Saturday, May
27. Our two primary objectives were to 1) survey coral reef conditions
at multiple depths leveraging