What’s New at Sail Caribbean
Summer 2009 is Underway!
Our early summer programs, Echo College Leadership & Sailing Expedition and Early Bravo Sailing, Scuba & Watersports, have already sailed, dived, tubed, wakeboarded, snorkeled, hiked, learned, danced and explored the Caribbean. Those students can now entertain their friends at home with tales of adventure. Check out the Photo Albums from those programs.
The rest of our teen summer adventure programs (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Foxtrot & Tango) have left the docks. Be sure to follow their travels on our Trip Updates. Sign up to receive updates by email - just find the trip updates you want and follow the link on the right side of that page: "Sign up by email".
Congratulations to Dominique!
The winner has been chosen for The Gallery Collection's 1st Annual Write-A-Greeting-Card Scholarship Contest. The winner will take part in Sail Caribbean's Foxtrot Environmental Service, Scuba & Sailing program, participating in marine preservation, scuba diving, sailing, water sports, and ocean exploration throughout the British Virgin Islands.
Congratulations to Dominique Pankey of Appomattox, Virginia, who submitted the winning entry - a creative and effective message about the importance of preserving our environment, written on the inside of a greeting card to President Obama!
To read Dominique's entry along with the four additional finalists and the 15 honorable mentions, visit the Gallery Collection's blog: http://www.gallerycollection.com/blog/eco-friendly/write-a-greeting-card-scholarship-finalists/.
Sail Caribbean and The Gallery Collection would like to thank all the entrants for the effort you put into writing such persuasive and inspirational messages to President Obama. The top one hundred entries are being sent to President Obama!
New look for our 30th birthday!
| In celebration of our 30th year this summer, we've got a new logo, our third in three decades. Think we've improved with age? | ||
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New Dive Shop on Norman Island!
Sail Caribbean Divers has expanded! We are proud to announce that we now have a new full-service dive shop in the Bight on Norman Island, located on the beach next to the renowned Pirate's Bight Beach Bar & Grill, famous for its food and nightly entertainment.
The Bight on Norman Island is a famous pirate anchorage and is a must-visit stop with all boaters in the BVI - all of our summer programs in the BVI certainly stop there! Norman Island was made famous in Robert Louis Stevenson's book Treasure Island. Read more on Sail Caribbean Divers' website.
BVI is #1 Caribbean destination for Wreck Diving
It's official! Scuba Diving magazine recognizes the British Virgin Islands for its fantastic wreck diving.
"Any conversations about wreck diving in the Caribbean usually begin and end with the RMS Rhone, off Salt Island. The 310-foot ship lies broken into two pieces and boasts artifacts from 140 years ago when she sank. There’s so much to see, including a variety of resident marine life. You’ll need a two-tank trip to dive both sections. There’s also Wreck Alley, off Cooper Island, where three sunken vessels are adjacent to a wall."
See all results for all diving categories (this is a large 2.5MB file)
Find Sail Caribbean on Facebook!
We've joined the Facebook community! Come see what everyone's saying about their upcoming summer plans! Attending this summer? Introduce yourself on the Wall or in a discussion board and meet other students who'll be joining you. Just want to learn more about what SC is like? Post questions or comments to our Wall, view photos from previous summers and watch our videos!
Visit Sail Caribbean on Facebook or simply search "Sail Caribbean" when logged onto Facebook.
Foxtrot Environment Service Yields Results!
Foxtrot Environmental Service, Sailing and Scuba students worked hard during this past Summer 2008 collecting data on sea turtles, coral reefs, water quality, and sea grass beds. The specific data collected by Sail Caribbean students is submitted to local scientists and international organizations for further research and protection of endangered species and fragile ecosystems.
This summer, the Foxtrot programs caught 5 turtles, four of which were Hawksbill Turtles and one was a Green Turtle. Two of the turtles had not been tagged previously so we measured them, recorded the information and then gave them both flipper and pitt tags. The other three turtles had been tagged before. Two of them were turtles that Sail Caribbean students had tagged in the summer of 2007. We measured the first and found that it had grown 5 cm since last year. The second had been tagged last year at Cooper Island and it had grown by 8cm! We spotted (and chased) a lot of other turtles as well during the summer, especially Green Turtles off Peter Island.
For coral reefs, water quality and sea grass monitoring, our Foxtrot Program Director, Amanda Crichton, has summarized the student data from this year to serve as a baseline of comparison for years to come. To see the results of Foxtrot 2008 students' hard work, check out these reports:
Tango Program makes headlines in Tortola
Our Tango program (formerly "Foxtrot Jr") and our friends at Tortola's Youth Empowerment Project (YEP) made the news in the Virgin Islands! Check out the story on the Virgin Islands news website:
U.S. and Local Youth Join Together to Learn More About Protecting our Environment
Great work!!
Delta Program makes the news on St. Kitts
Basseterre, St. Kitts, July 15, 2008 (SKNIS): UNESCO Youth Path Project Participants recently hosted Sail Caribbean to an exploration of the life, culture and heritage of the Federation.
Sail Caribbean is a group from the United States, which, as the name suggests, sails the Caribbean Islands every summer to learn about youth in the region.
According to Project Coordinator Maria Crawford, the goals of the Youth Path Project are similar to that of Sail Caribbean... Read more..