The third annual AWARE Week — organized by PADI and Mission AWARE — is underway this week to empower folks all around the set up to raise the torch for ocean protection.
Taking house September 19th-27th, 2020, AWARE Week is supposed to help the global dive community to lead or expend share in conservation actions and courses for a neat and wholesome ocean. The match will provide opportunities to enhance ocean health, whether or no longer you’re within the water or out of it, in a diversity of how so any individual can rep fascinated with no topic skill they’ll for the duration of these times.
The week will emphasize PADI’s Torchbearer 5 framework — five key targets to data community actions for the duration of AWARE Week and into the long speed. The targets are feature to assemble obvious particular person contributions play accurate into a grand broader circulate that will within the waste turn the dial toward a wholesome future for folks and planet. All the diagram via AWARE Week, PADI and Mission AWARE will provide particular and tangible actions that folk can assemble to drive growth for every purpose collectively, including:
“1. Stand Up for the Ocean. Advocate for the protection of sharks, one of basically the most inclined marine species on the planet. Mission AWARE is promoting and monitoring toughen from Atlantic fishing countries to take care of one of many world’s most pressing shark conservation crises: the awful decline of Atlantic shortfin makos. If your nation is no longer on the Mako Champions Blueprint, you might perhaps well serve switch that at www.projectaware.org/sharkleague.
“2. Have interaction Responsibility. Divers are drawn to rep a deeper conception of the ocean’s ecosystems so we can realize key ocean threats, name ways to expend action and give strategies to be accountable ocean adventurers. Host or expend the Mission AWARE Specialty course to sharpen conception with the ‘Prime 10 Pointers for Divers to Provide protection to the Ocean Planet.’
“3. Dive with a Cause. Every dive is an opportunity to amass crucial data that can even be mature to make future protection measures for the ocean. By downloading the Dive Against Particles App and reporting what you get, you join the largest underwater citizen science circulate on the planet. You would possibly perhaps well without prolong suppose marine debris examine, thereby mitigating the impacts of pollution on the ocean planet.
“4. In the reduction of Our Carbon Footprint. Coastal sea beds are basically the most extremely tremendous CO2 and carbon filters on the planet, storing upward of 50 percent of the CO2 trapped by the ocean and offering the foundations of life within the ocean. Contribute to the conservation and restoration of seagrass meadows and mangrove swamps, and amplify awareness about the grief and how divers can serve with the Mission AWARE Specialty course.
“5. Place Sustainable Decisions. At some stage in AWARE Week, toughen sustainable habits by selecting to be especially mindful of what you are supporting with every steal you assemble, and portion those choices which would be supporting a brighter future.”
PADI mavens, dive facilities, accommodations and divers all across the industry can lead these efforts of their community and maximize the affect of AWARE Week within the next ways:
• Join PADI’s rising community of torchbearers for ocean protection.
• Provide Mission AWARE strong point courses, including the revised Mission AWARE Specialty, Dive Against Particles Specialty, and AWARE Shark Conservation Specialty.
• Grab share in a Dive Against Particles or join an AWARE Week match shut to you – or host your possess on your local folks. Add your AWARE Week actions to Mission AWARE’s Action Blueprint and My Ocean, Mission AWARE’s online community.
Hosts can checklist their events, actions and courses on the PADI Adventures app to raise awareness with divers shut to them.
You would possibly perhaps well be taught more about AWARE Week 2020 at projectaware.org.
