BWIC Reef Action Team (RATs!)
2018 British West Indies Collegiate Reef Action Tream (RATS)
What is RATs? The Reef Action Team (RATs) is a group of students of the British West Indies Collegiate, who are passionate about exploring, protecting, and preserving the marine and coastal environment of the Turks and Caicos Islands. The RATs is part of the Friday extra-curricular activity programme. Over the last five years they have been privileged to work alongside the Turks and Caicos Reef Fund, DECR, Amanyara and Big Blue Unlimited while taking part in beach, reef and wetlands cleanups, environmental presentations, mooring/knot tying lessons, Open Water and Advanced Scuba diving training and have stood alongside filmmaker and conservationist Rob Stewart and explorer and ocean advocate Fabien Cousteau in educating the community about the importance of sharks and the ocean.
| 2018
Week 1 – Rickie’s Underwater Cleanup Week 2- Coral Identification Quiz Week 3 – Dolphins and Popcorn World Wetlands Day – Mangrove Monitoring Week 4 – Coral Gardens Buoy Cleanup |
Week 6 – Kayaking Adventures Feb 24 – Satellite Turtle Tagging March 9 – Chalk Sound Champions March 23 – Coral Reef Conservation Certification June 8 – Visit aboard the Sea Shepard |
| 2017
Week 1 – Mooring Lines Week 2 – Shore Diving Week 3 – Navigation Dive Week 4 – Mangrove Mania ! |
Week 5 – Night Dive
Week 6 – Knot Tying Week 7 – Buoyancy Dive Week 8 – Advanced OW Deep Dive |
Week 9 – Fish Identification
Week 10 – Loggerhead Turtle Week 11 – Search & Recovery Week 12 – Cleaning up the Mangroves |