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Santa is coming.

He is stopping at Blue Ocean Divers for all the good little divers! Have you been good this year? Does Santa know what your dive locker needs? Stop by today and complete a Holiday wish list and help Santa out!

Our Dutch Springs

So you think local diving is has no "appeal"?

Checkout this YouTube video shot at Dutch Springs.

Do you know Geo-Cache?

Are you interested in exploring and finding lost treasure? Have you ever taken your GPS out in the woods and GEO-cached?

Did you know you can GEO-cache underwater?

Checkout this youtube video to learn some of the basics.



Then go the websites below to get the coordinates of the 1st underwater cache you will find!

Here are a couple of links to local hiding sites. Why not place your own treasure and logbook at a dive site and post your cache at http://www.geocaching.com!

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=d8d20576-c810-4e22-9d63-8c6fdab782af&log=y&decrypt

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=38ded577-c7aa-4f95-b2c4-52147e5f1ab6

Why Save Sharks

The thing we should fear most about sharks is their looming extinction.

Many people are concerned about the plight of charismatic marine animals such as dolphins and whales. However, few know or even care about the shark's fate. Each year, up to 73 million sharks are killed. According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), about a 1/3 of shark species are on the path towards or nearing extinction.

In addition to the factors challenging all marine creatures; pollution, habitat destruction, and elimination of food sources, sharks face another urgent threat: relentless over-fishing to feed demand for their highly valuable fins. With demand exceeding supply, coupled with their slow reproduction, shark populations are quickly disappearing from this planet.

Why the increased demand for shark? Shark fin soup consumption, a traditional cultural delicacy particularly in Asia, has risen from a few million consumers in the 1980's to more than 300 million today. Demand for shark fin means that sharks everywhere, even the few protected species and those in the few protected areas, are under attack.

The premium prices commanded by fins have fueled a global shark hunt of epic proportion. Dr. Ellen Pikitch, Executive Director, Institute for Ocean Conservation Science.

Why should we care? Like them or not, we need sharks for a healthy ocean and planet. As apex predators, sharks are critically important to the ocean and its fragile balance. Recent studies indicate that regional elimination of sharks can cause disastrous effects further down the food chain including the collapse of fisheries and the death of coral reefs.

Indeed, we have little to fear from sharks, but plenty to gain from their survival. And we are witnessing them vanish before our very eyes.

Sharks need a voice. They need our help. They need Shark Savers.