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i am looking for a volunteer program that i can move away to do. it sucks for diving living in birmingham al. does any one know where i can find a place or site that can help me?
 
i dont know if this is what your looking for, but have a look at

www.coralcay.org

i did it and it was the best thing i have ever done and will never forget it.

guy
 
Check out www.blueventures.org

I almost joined up w/ this group but I couldn't get the time off from work. You have to be able to commit to at least 6 weeks. Sounds like a phenomenal experience.
 
What type of training and skills do you have?
What type of work are you looking for?
 
Pretty cool! Im ready to quit my job and go!!
 
www.opwall.com

If you're an instructor or DM, they have research trips to Sulawesi and Honduras
 
What is the volunteer part of this? Volunteering to pay? I messed up setting up my dive business in Hawaii as a for-profit operation. I could have made it non-profit, printed some cool t-shirts in earth colors, charged "volunteers" megabucks for the experience, and saved myself $500,000 in federal, FICA, Medicare, and state taxes. Oh well, next time...
I went of an Earthwatch trip back in the mid 80's that was like these - two weeks on the Great Barrier Reef "studying" coral polyp reproduction. In those days before the great tax reforms, the whole thing along with three extra weeks in Perth and Syndey was tax-deductible.
Have fun.
 
i work with an attorneyand have done various small jobs, therefore i have a wide variety of skills from doing tax returns to lawn maintenance, from cleaning dog kennels to working with an electrician. i have done may different small jobs.plus i am an advanced open water diver. do you think this will help you
 
tom winters how do i go about getting on a earthwatch trip, is it hard to get on with or do they still do it?
 
lil_lucky6363:
i am looking for a volunteer program that i can move away to do. it sucks for diving living in birmingham al. does any one know where i can find a place or site that can help me?

While this doesn't require moving really, the Chattanooga Aquarium
takes "volunteer" divers. It's about an 2 hour drive up the road
from Birmingham.

To dive with them, you have to start at the bottom of the "bucket"
so to say. You start out by committing to work at least one
or two days a month during the "work week" (Mon - Fri) and
then you start doing the "bottom feeder jobs" like scrubbing
the tanks, etc. I understand it's not a glamorous volunteer
job.

They don't have that nice of a saltwater tank either. It's
a square box with very little in "fake coral" in it. Prob 20 or 25
foot water depth maybe 40 or 50 feet long and 15 feet wide.
It's nothing special in my opinion. Their better tank is the
"river" tank which has all kinds of neat stuff in it. Most of
their tanks are "smaller" onces that are in the 50 to 500 gallon
size and not big enough to dive in. However, they are building
an expansion and perhaps they'll have a more impressive
salt water tank then.

To "join", they have a orientation class you have to take and
they only teach it about once per year. They also make
you fill out lots of stupid paperwork and agree to them
doing a private investigative background check, give
your drivers license and social security number, agree to
all other kinds of interviews, etc. All this to have to
take off during the work week to scrub tank glass in
a blah saltwater tank. After reading all the crap you
had to do and go through and talking to others, we threw
our application package in the trash.



But if you looking for a somewhat local volunteer dive
opportunity, this is about it.
 

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