Diving lets you experience the sea in an unmatched way. If you’re passionate about preserving what lies beneath, you’re in good company. Dive Butler International and the International SeaKeepers Society have partnered to make supporting, and participating in, marine-conservation efforts easier.
Dive Butler is based in the Maldives, but works with megayacht owners and guests globally. It also works with luxury resorts. It arranges personally guided dive trips, no matter your experience level. Due to the relationship with SeaKeepers, it will help you turn a pleasure trip into a practical one, too. For example, if you are heading to the Maldives, you can see coral reefs. But you can also help prominent coral researchers that SeaKeepers knows by letting them come along. Furthermore, in a variety of popular dive spots, you won’t just be able to see sharks and rays. Since their populations are declining, you can welcome aboard influential scientists. In addition, you can help monitor water pollution. If you have a soft spot for children, Dive Butler and SeaKeepers can coordinate visits by education groups.
The Dive Butler and SeaKeepers partnership goes beyond this, too. SeaKeepers offers yacht owners the chance to deploy ocean-data-gathering instruments. These instruments measure water salinity, water temperature, and more. Dive Butler will extend that opportunity, too. Finally, Dive Butler clients can become members of the SeaKeepers’ Discovery Yacht Fleet. The members regularly donate time aboard their yachts to the above-mentioned scientific and research expeditions. They also engage in instrument deployments. Within the past year, for example, Discovery Yachts aided in shark tagging and behavior studies in the Bahamas. They further helped scientists collect plankton samples from Panama to Florida, so that scientists could sequence their genomes.
Both Dive Butler and SeaKeepers see potential to grow the conservation efforts beyond these examples. All it takes is your suggestion. Details are on the SeaKeepers’ website, under the Discovery Yachts tab (in the What We Do section).
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