Reef Action Team 2018

A  RATastic,  bubble-blowing  end  to  the  year! Wednesday,  27th  June  was  another  Reef  Action  Team  Students  adventure  out  on  the  water  –  and  we  even  had  some  RATs  alumni,  whom  we  haven’t  seen  for  a  while  come  back  to  join  us! We  headed  out  on  Chuck’s  Mate, Continue Reading →

RATs visit Sea Shepherd On Friday, 8th June, a group of our own marine conservation enthusiasts from BWIC were fortunate to be invited for a tour of the M/V John Paul Dejoria - 110-foot, anti-paoching fast patrol vessel which forms part of the Sea Shepherd global fleetContinue Reading →

March 23, 2018 Last RATs session for 2018 Coral Reef Conservation Certification Despite school finishing early on the last day of term, RATs were fired up and ready to head out on the water to finish the PADI AWARE Coral Reef Conservation Specialty Course started in theContinue Reading →

Friday RATS club – Chalk Sound Champions! This Friday the 9th of March, we went kayaking in Chalk Sound for the afternoon. We met the guys from Surfside at the gas station so we could follow them to our launch point – we followed a long dirtContinue Reading →

Satellite Turtle Tagging On Saturday, February 24th, at the National Environmental Centre, the RATs team were invited to attend a turtle tagging event led by Katherine Hart (DECR environmental officer and turtle expert), Amy Avenant (DECR), Jackie Walker (leader in the Amanyara turtle initiative) and Peter RichardsonContinue Reading →

Kayaking Adventures On Friday, 23rd February, week 6 with our RATs team, we went out on a kayaking trip with Ms. Rankin and Don Stark (the chairman of the TC Reef Fund). The weather was beautiful (although a little windy) and the water was a bit coolerContinue Reading →

RATs week 4: Coral Gardens In week four of our new  Reef Action Team (RATS) team, the weather was once again beautiful enough to go out on an excursion. We were fortunate enough to be able to work with Jackie Walker, a naturalist at Amanyara resort, andContinue Reading →

World Wetlands Day, February 2018 RATS Mangrove Monitoring and regeneration project. We eagerly arrived at the launch bay where Amy Avenant, from the Turks & Caicos  Islands Department of Environment and Coastal Resources (DECR), and the helpers from Surfside Academy were waiting for us with kayaks atContinue Reading →