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Supporter for Marine Conservation
Zamboanguita, PhilippinenVolunteerPosted Jul 25, 2017
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About this opportunity
If you are not certified as a diver already, you will start your participation in our program by getting licensed through the PADI system of education. As the work we carry out on fragile reefs require divers with excellent skills, we add additional practice and excursion dives until you’re ready for the task. Typically volunteers do one or two courses, but some who volunteer for ten weeks or more, do multiple courses or even complete their dive master. However the project is not a dive shop and people come here to take part in conservation, so we ask everyone to be flexible with their course wishes, as the instructors can only do so much. The priority is turning non-diving volunteers into diving volunteers ASAP - then after that, it's adding to the skillset of experienced divers, who wish to do additional courses. Taking your open water course through a demanding environmental organization instead of a lax commercial dive shop, makes you one badass diver!
Duties performed by most volunteers are:
• Participating in two daily scientific scuba dives mon-fri. Saturdays we frequently go exploring new sites or fun diving instead of working dives.
• Kitchen duty (the duty rotates between groups, so you have one day a week just setting table, doing dishes - our cooks does the real magic)
• Taking care of our mangrove nursery and participating in replanting efforts
• Doing afternoon seagrass surveys while snorkeling
• Helping clean reefs and beaches of plastic garbage at least once weekly. (We do so in between scientific dives)
• Cleaning personal dive gear daily and diveshed once a week
• Filling scuba tanks
• Help prepare various outreach activities and community clubs (Earth Club, Lutoban Kids Club, etc)
• In school periods, you may help go and deliver lessons together with our staff (we'll teach you how!) in local schools.
• Cleaning the base and your own bungalow every Monday.
Volunteering is for people who want to get involved and get their hands dirty. Don’t expect any luxury at camp (well, other than the food which is amazing!). Accommodation is charming, but primitive. There are shared bathrooms and almost everything runs off solar power, including the wifi. There’s an outdoor jungle gym, and the whole botanical garden is more than ten hectares - large enough to go adventuring.
Location
Zamboanguita, Philippinen
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