Yacht Harbour: 
The best thing about memories...
IS MAKING THEM
And now you know!!! “Butt Lungs” 😳
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#Repost @waterlust
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Yes and yes, sea cucumbers are animals and breathe out of their butts.
It’s a sea cucumber special this week for #whereintheworldwednesday !
Sea cucumbers may be the most unassuming yet fascinating animals! They look like a plant and are named after cucumbers, but they are actually animals! They are echinoderms, the same as starfish and sea urchins!
Aside from butt breathing, another fun fact is that they will expel their organs at predators! And they can just grow back any organs that were lost.
What curious little creatures!
As TS Fiona pays us a visit, we’ll be closed at all Dive BVI locations on Saturday and Sunday (17th-18th). Please email for trip and reservation inquiries. info@divebvi.com
Thank you!
Dive BVI Team
#divebvi
Capt. Steve is out on Sea Bandit and got captured on the SDB webcam! The guests are getting a little Rum & Relaxation at Soggy Dollar Bar this afternoon. They had it all to themselves today! #myoffice #whyisalltherumgone #divebvi @soggydollarbar @worldcat_boats
✈️+🏝+🇻🇬=💙
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#onebvi #lovebvi #britishvirginislands #divebvi #virginislands #travel #wanderlust #island #islandlife #scubatrip #divetrip
Time to explore!!!! 🤿🫧🪸
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Join us for daily trips from @scrubisland_bvi #divebvi #divetrip #diveboat #britishvirginislands #getdown #underthesea #scuba #scubalife
“Surface Interval” 🫧
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@guavaberryspringbay #sunset #bvi #sunsetporn #sundowner #surfaceinterval #nevergetsold #west #fireinthesky #virgingorda
What a great time with these Green Sprouts Eco Club for this weeks camp!
These amazing young people worked with us to identify Stoney Coral Tissue Loss Disease during several observation snorkels, explored mangrove habitats, AND completed a Try Scuba Dive! 🤿
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To say we’re proud of them is an understatement 🤩
#greensproutsecoclub #communityscience #dive #snorkel #kids #camp #islandkids #learning #ocean #marinebiology #tryscuba #divebvi
Off-Season Specials? YES PLEASE!! Get your Stay-cation on with us!
And check out all of the amazing deals and experiences in the @britishvirginis @bvi.staycation guide! 🤩
https://deals.bvistaycation.com/view/604925063/4/
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#staycation #bvisecrets #lovewhereyoulive #local #localbusiness #divebvi #lovebvi
Please join us in wishing - one of the most beautiful humans to walk this planet- a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY! AJ, our General Manager, is the backbone of this business and one of the most caring and DEFINITELY the hardest working people we’ve ever known. We are grateful for our leadership, but mostly for her friendship 💗
AJ, WE LOVE YOU!
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#happybirthday #boss #workhardplayhard #divebvi #teammate
Feel Good Friday! Good people doing amazing things here 💗 Thank you!!!
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#Repost @1beyondthereef
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Cooper Island- South Side. Proof that we always achieve more when the community and especially our youth gets involved.
Its hard for us to know where all of this is coming from. We found everything from Japanese toothpaste to 3 faux-fur lined crocs shoes. Almost everything you see here (other than the 200 bottle caps, a ridiculous amount of crumbling micro plastic, and always so many crocs) is related to commercial fishing. Ropes, nets, plastic crates, fuel cannister’s, buoys.
What is the main thing we can do? Ask where your food is coming from.
Is it a somewhat sustainable species caught from a local fisherman using a line? Or is it shrimp from a trawler whose bycatch is up to 20:1 shrimp to other species that get discarded. This isn’t a war on 🍤 , but when people ask “what can I do?” you can start to put pressure on grocery stores and restaurants to label their food so that us as consumers can make an educated purchase as well as put pressure on yourself to try to be as sustainable a consumer as you can be. As sad as the pilot whale stranding was, a lot more than that die from commercial trawling and drift nets each year.
And on a lighter note, thank you to all of our volunteers, as well as the Global Ghost Gear Initiative and @oceanconservancy which we are very happy to have joined forces with on this.
If you want to come join the next one, let us know! We always find a way to make cleaning trash in the sun as fun as possible 🙂
And thanks to @jan.volpp for majority of these great photos!
#globalghostgearinitiative #ghostgear #commercialdiving #oceancleanup #microplastics #oceanconservation #commercialfishing #bvilove #britishvirginislands #natureslittlesecrets #30x30
🪸What world is this?! 🪸
These amazing images were shot with a UV light on a night dive - strange things! 🤩
#upsidedown #blacklight #nightdive #coral #fluorescent #strangerthings #divebvi #scubalife #nightdiver
🎥: @_eyeofnature_
BIG THINGS COMING!!! 🤿
Join us at the Launch Party to be the first in on all the excitement! #GETWRECKED ☠️ #WRECKWEEK2023 ⚓️
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@divebvi @bviwreck #divebvi #launchparty #britishvirginislands
#wreckdiver #diveweek #divepackage #specials
☀️💛🧡❤️ Shades of Orange are often as beautiful as our shades of Blue 💙💧🐠
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#Repost @lordraven173
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Nice sunset 🌅 whilst washing the boat down at the end of the day #ilovesunsets #lovelivinginthebvi @divebvi
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#sunset #whenthesungoesdown sdown #islandsunset #cocktailhour #magichour
💓Celebrate Women’s Dive Day 🤿
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The ocean is a woman turned to the skies,
spilling her thoughts along a shoreline of sand.
You will never know what hides behind her eyes
by skimming the surface and reaching dry land.
Her soul is silent and runs deeper than deep.
O! How silent and deep her rivulets run!
Her whispers will charm you and lull you to sleep.
Let silence enter and the two shall be one.
Her coral cathedrals give pause to the brave
so eager to dive into the depths of youth.
She hides, yet magnifies, the giver who gave
sweet pearls of wisdom and immutable truth.
The ocean is a woman walking on waves,
wrapped in wind-song between heaven and the shore,
lightly tiptoeing over watery graves
buried deep where the sunlight can reach no more.
She tosses to turn; and she rises to fall,
undulating with her ubiquitous hips.
She dances on decks, over promenades all.
She is the sepulchre of a thousand ships.
Deep in her depths, the ocean is listening;
and my heart is haunted by love for the sea.
Waves are rippling; twilight is glistening.
The ocean is a woman and she is me.
-Linda Marie Van Tassell
#internationalwomensdiveday #womensdiveday #scubagirl #womenwhodive #paditv #divessi #girlsrock #divedeeper #womenbelong #supportwomen #motherocean
Virgin Islands Is Dropping Covid Test Entry Requirements
Effective Friday, July 15 persons traveling to the Virgin Islands will no longer be required to present a negative COVID test to gain entry.
http://bvi.gov.vg/media-centre/virgin-islands-dropping-covid-test-entry-requirements
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#update #travelnews #covid #bvigovernment
There is no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this 💙
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#snorkeltrip #float #caribbean #bvi #daytrip #clearwater #guidedtour #mondayblues
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📸: @_eyeofnature_
Water’s nice! 💦
It’s time to join us! Checkout this smooth flight into Beef Island 🛬
#summer #vacation #joinus #fly #divetrip #divebvi #beefisland
Happy Virgin Islands Day!
Virgin Islands Day is a holiday that’s observed in the British Virgin Islands on the 1st Monday of July annually. This holiday has been celebrated since the mid-1950s and was previously known as Territory Day. This is a day that commemorates island culture and a recognition that the Virgin Islands have a distinct culture and history from the rest of the Caribbean.
Since the 17th century, the British Virgin Islands were under British control. During the 19th century, the British Virgin Islands became a part of the Federation of the Leeward Islands which included other British colonies in the Caribbean. In 1956, this federation was dissolved and the Virgin Islands became a colony. This is when Colony Day was created.
During the 60s, as other colonies began to move towards independence, the classification of the Virgin Islands was changed from a colony to a territory. The 1978 Public Holiday Act would then amend the holiday calendar so that Territory Day replaced Colony Day.
In 2020, the British Virgin Islands Holidays Review Committee recommended that the name of this holiday be changed to Virgin Islands Day. This happened on December 2nd of that year. Although the official name of this holiday is now Virgin Islands Day, it’s still referred to by many people as Territory Day.
#bvilove #happyvirginislandsday #bvi #bvipride #divebvi
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Text Source: HolidaysCalendar.com
Happy 4th of July to our American friends! 🇺🇸
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Have a safe and spectacular day! 🎇🧨🎆
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#fourthofjuly #happy4th #h2oart #americana #america
Spectacular art by @laurazazanis - HZO Art 🇺🇸
Hey! It’s Friday! 🤩
Wishing our fishy-fam a great weekend!
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#Repost @marine_encyclopedia
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➡️Follow your @marine_encyclopedia 🐠🐳🐬🦂
The queen parrotfish is a medium sized parrotfish that lives on coral reefs in the Caribbean Sea and its adjacent waters. The parrotfishes are named for their powerful beaks, formed from the fusing of the teeth into biting plates. The largest queen parrotfish are brightly colored (blue, green, orange, etc.), and the species gets its name from a series of markings on the head, above the eye, that resemble a crown. Juveniles and young adults are a somewhat drab, brownish color.
Queen parrotfish are herbivores that graze the reef, using their beaks to scrape plants and algae from the reef surface. Oftentimes, this habit involves ingesting corals and other animals as well, but they are primarily herbivorous. Through their feeding strategies, parrotfishes create much of the sand around a reef. Upon eating some species of calcareous algae, parrotfishes digest the soft parts and pass the hard parts, which essentially take the form of sand. Through their constant grazing, queen parrotfish serve an important ecological function on coral reefs. By removing algae, they open up space on hard surfaces for corals to attach and grow.
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#parrotfish #parrotlover
#папугай #papagayo #peces #bajoelmar #submarino #submariner #undersea #underwaterpic #scubaaddict #oceancreatures #lifeunderwater #uwphotography #seacreature #scuba_diving #uwphotographer #deepseacreatures #marinebiologist #oceananimals #oceanscience #oneocean #savethereef #coralreefenthusiast #underwaterart #underwaterphotography #oceanlife #oceanlover #coralreef
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Credit: @arturotellethiemann
