Bermuda Ocean Explorers

Going live tonight for Episode One: My Top 5 Sites to Shore Dive in Bermuda!

Get ready! The Bermuda Fall Lionfish Derby is happening next month!

Save the date! With 33 days to go, we are excited to officially announce that we are hosting the 3rd Annual Bermuda Fall Lionfish Derby set for the weekend of November 9th, 2018. This three-day lionfish culling event will also be Bermuda's second 'REEF Sanctioned' Lionfish Derby.

Get ready to register your team of two to four anglers for $100 to compete to win cash and prizes while removing as many of these invasive species from our reef as possible over the Holiday weekend. Prizes will be awarded for the largest, smallest and most lionfish. Full details to follow!

Hello friends! The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission are hosting a 3-day 2018 Lionfish Summit in Cocoa Beach, Florida and the event ends today at 12:30 p.m. EST Thankfully, the Florida Channel are recording and broadcasting most of, if not all of, the Summit and Reef Rangers on Facebook have live streams up often. Links below.

The Lionfish Summit is a meeting of researchers, invasive species managers, divers and ocean conservationists dedicated to addressing the lionfish invasion of the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea.

10/3/18 Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission Lionfish Summit Part 1 - The Florida Channel Click on the links to watch: 10/2/18 Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission Lionfish Summit 10/3/18 Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission Lionfish Summit Part 2

Happy Bermuda Day everyone!

The 2018 Bermuda End to End is on Saturday and it marks the 6th year in a row that we will be hanging out at the Ariel Sands Water Stop! Guardians of the Reef (formerly Ocean Explorers) is not a Bermuda Registered Charity but we continue to be Patron Sponsors and partner with a RC every year. This year we're excited to have a team from the Duke of Edinburgh's International Award Bermuda helping out. See you then!

Bermuda End to End The Bermuda End-to-End Charitable Trust is a registered charity ( #558) whose efforts are coordinated by a volunteer committee. All pledges raised by our participants are distributed amongst that year’s selected charities.

The local media released findings from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources [DENR] last week about the fish die-off that has been occurring this month. All of the affected fish that were examined were found to have their gills heavily infested with a mobile, single-celled parasites that resemble Brooklynella. Read more by following the link below.

Divers are finding fish dead or dying on the ocean floor or floating on the surface and beach goers are seeing them washing up on the sand and rocks. This die-off is very real and very scary. A visit to the small bay at the end of Ocean Avenue was real, scary and sad. First dead fish was spotted on the rocks long before reaching the bay. What was found in the bay is what you see in the photographs. Marine debris and dead fish everywhere.

Stand by for a call to action! We might not be able to help the fish battle this fill parasite but we can certainly help with the plastic and marine debris.

http://bernews.com/2017/09/denr-fish-die-likely-caused-parasite/

Join in the fun of fundraising at this years annual XL Catin End to End event on Saturday, celebrating three decades of supporting Bermuda Charities. This will be the 5th straight year that we have supported this event as patron sponsors, spending the morning providing chilled oranges, water, music and cheers for all of the walkers, runners, cyclists and rollerbladers that pass by. There's still time for you to sign up or if you want to volunteer with us at Ariel Sands, send us a message! See you there.