Ecofriendly Things To Leave Your Mark

[John A Lewis]

In another thread, we've been taking about collecting shells--pro and con.

You can also take it in a different direction; doing something that you don't take home, but instead can improve the places you visit. Ecotourism is becoming more and more popular with visitors to sites all over the world as people become more aware of the impact we have had (and continue to have) on the places Man touches with his presence.

In some ways, it's the old "plant a tree under whose shade you will never sit" mindset, and a lot of divers are starting to embrace it.

Read about it at

THE COOLEST DIVING SOUVENIR YOU CAN’T TAKE HOME

 

[Doc]

I once dove in the Maldives with an artist from California who worked in glass. She created heavy "sea shells" out of translucent colored glass, etched the date and her name on them and went about her dive travels placing them within the reef structure. They were designed as a micro habitat for critters- and also as an Easter Egg (in the vernacular of you internet hipsters).

I'm trying to get Coco View of Roatan to accept cremation ashes, mixing them into the concrete for a "reef ball". The fee charged for this would offset the production cost, including a message/name tag, and the remainder would be a donation to the local Marine Park efforts.