BVI Art Reef

27/01/2023

08/11/2022

Hot off the press! 🎣
BVI Sustainable Seafood guides now being distributed through the territory.
These guides will initially be distributed at a fisherman’s meeting tonight and then begin making their way into grocery stores, markets, restaurants and wherever you are willing to bring one! We all know we see shark, parrot fish, and other species on this “red list” at the stores here, so be a Karen and ask for a manager! Or send an email afterwards to kindly let the establishments know that these species should be avoid being sold for the future of BVI’s reefs.
It is usually always met with appreciation 😊
We are such a small country that we really can make change so easily.

Hot off the press! 🎣

BVI Sustainable Seafood guides now being distributed through the territory.

These guides will initially be distributed at a fisherman’s meeting tonight and then begin making their way into grocery stores, markets, restaurants and wherever you are willing to bring one! We all know we see shark, parrot fish, and other species on this “red list” at the stores here, so be a Karen and ask for a manager! Or send an email afterwards to kindly let the establishments know that these species should be avoid being sold for the future of BVI’s reefs.
It is usually always met with appreciation 😊

We are such a small country that we really can make change so easily.

12/05/2022

We are happy to announce the US based & tax deductible 501c3 organization "Beyond The Reef International" which will be a sister organization to our BVI ocean conservation causes!

You might know us from our artificial reef sites and wrecks known as the "BVI Art Reef", but did you also know that we have been treating and monitoring Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease in the BVI for the past 2 years along with doing massive coastal cleanups of trash and discarded fishing gear?

Learn more at www.1beyondthereef.com and see what we have been up to and how you can help!

20/05/2021

Yesterday Beyond The Reef covered several areas around Peter Island as well as Dead Chest Island.
As you can see, a little bit of Sargassum (okay, maybe a lot of it) can’t stop us!
Our team recovered large items of plastic debris as well as several very large nets (some of the most detrimental to marine life). The largest net was recovered from the ocean and there are still 2/3rds of it down there which our team has gone back to cut free and remove today.
As a marine science based NPO we enjoy data, so here’s some stats of what we have cleaned so far!
49,540’ shoreline
3032 cubic feet of debris cleaned
931 cubic feet plastic
1022 cubic feet fishing gear
856 cubic feet metal
44 cubic feet glass
179 cubic feet other (fiberglass , dinghys, kayak)
15 truck loads
267 working hours!
6 different islands

18/05/2021

Last week we did 2 cleanups!
This was from our second one on Camanoe Island.
Thinking of starting “Object of the Week” since we have found some pretty interesting things....
Camanoe’s would be this car seat proudly displayed by GP in the last photo.
Our guys have certainly gotten the hang of best ways to carry large, wet, heavy ropes 💪🏽

11/05/2021

21/04/2021

This may look like similar netting to last week, but it unfortunately is an entirely new batch collected from the land and shallow waters on the backside of Cooper Island (map area attached).

In areas where it was too rough for the boat to anchor in, recovered nets were manually hiked over the hill from the South East bays and loaded onto our boat (this took twice the effort as some of these ropes are not light, and we hope our guys got a good nights rest!!).

We are systematically mapping the areas that we have cleaned and working our way through the islands.

Right now this is requiring experienced commercial divers to make a big initial dent in these hard to reach areas, but we plan to do community-based clean ups in safer and more accessible areas soon, so look out for posts on how to help!

07/04/2021

Help us get to know you better!

Questions for our community below!
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QUESTIONS:
Let us know in the comments! We would be very grateful for your participation and we would love to get to know some of our followers and community better 🙏🏽

1- Where are our followers based!? BVI, USVI, the States or other?

2- Have you been diving on any of the sites?

3- If you have been diving on the sites, how many of you know about the $5 donation program as an admission fee to dive the wreck sites?

2- Did you know the $5 goes directly to local kids swims lessons?

3- Anything you want to see more of? Send us your ideas!!

07/04/2021

“Work From Home” vibes....

07/04/2021

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19/11/2020

Still a face-palm, but at least his drink got a cocktail umbrella upgrade.

This might be a metaphor for 2020...

Still a face-palm, but at least his drink got a cocktail umbrella upgrade.

This might be a metaphor for 2020...

15/10/2020