HAWAI`I OCEAN'S & CORAL REEF AWARNESS EVENT AT PU`U POA BEACH, KAUA`I

SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 2010,

9 A.M. - 12 P.M.

Aloha,
On Saturday, August 21, 2010, Save Our Seas (SOS) in collaboration with St. Regis Princeville Hotel, Malama Na `Apapa (MNA) will be hosting a Hawaii Ocean’s & Coral Reef Awareness Event at Pu`u Poa Beach (the beach in front of the St. Regis Princeville Hotel.)   Pu'u Poa reef is the site of the first Reef Check location in the World which was surveyed thirteen years ago in 1997.

All residents and visitors are invited and encouraged to come and join us at this free event and participate in activities, education, and awareness of our Marine Ecosystem.

Event Schedule
7:00 am – 8:30 am
Participants set up at the beach.

9:00 am
Welcome ceremony
Hawaiian Blessing
Message from St. Regis Princeville General Manager Mr. Milton Sgarbi – Presentation of new coral reef awareness signs

10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Scuba Reef Survey – Scott Bacon.
All Scuba divers interested in joining must be certified and provide their own equipment.  Contact Scott for more details. 808-482-0683.

Ocean Pulse:  Intro to Reef Check monitoring, basic REEF training on fish and invertebrates, Eyes of the Reef - Invasive Species and Coral Disease followed by a snorkel survey with SOS President Capt. Paul Clark and other volunteers.  Please bring your own snorkel gear and underwater camera if you have one.

Guided snorkel tours of the reef with multiple SCUBA and Snorkel instructors.  

If you will be Scuba diving we will be meeting up at the Princeville Foodland parking lot at 7:30am then driving our gear down the hotel access road to the beach.  There is a locked gate so we will need to all go down together.  
This will only be a one tank dive as we are doing some additional training on surveying invertabrates and the substrate plus it is a long swim to the outside reef.

MAHALO NUI LOA!