Coastal Impact, in collaboration with the Coral Woman team, installed a fish-shaped cement sculpture underwater. We transplanted corals on the sculpture as an environmental message to protect the oceans.
Our underwater mission involve diving deep to study and monitor marine life while shouting from the mountaintops (or should we say, the ocean waves) about their incredible importance.
The mouth of the fish is open in a silent scream for help; while the third part of the fish is an oil drum.
We worked on the Global FinPrint Project, an initiative by Paul G. Allen (Microsoft partner of Bill Gates) which was a worldwide study of Elasmobranchs that brought together an international research team and collaborators around the world to fill critical information gaps about the diminishing number of sharks and rays.
The project was launched in summer 2015 with a multi-institutional team conducting surveys of sharks, rays and other types of marine life on coral reefs using baited remote underwater video surveys (BRUVs). This research was aimed at improving our understanding of how elasmobranchs influence the coral reef ecosystem and how humans impact these species and their habitats and was completed in Dec, 2017.
Ultimately, the consolidation of this collaborative global research into one single analysis will aid management and conservation efforts for life on the reef.
In India, this project was conducted by us at Netrani Island in Karnataka and the islands off Malvan in Maharastra. We are very proud to say we were the ONLY NGO in India to have been selected for this project which was conducted across 371 coral reefs in 58 countries!! The resultant scientific paper has been recently published.
We have been conducting Underwater and Beach Clean Ups since 1996. Our team accompanies divers and non-divers to clean the beach on St. George Island. In 2024, students from Navy Children School, Progress High School, ICAR, and MOCA helped collect 50 sacks of trash, totaling 460 kgs. We recovered 258 kgs of recyclables like cast iron, glass, PET bottles, and hard plastics, sent to local recyclers. The 202 kgs of non-recyclables, including low-value plastics, thermocol, nylon fish nets, rubber, and cloth, were sent for proper disposal. Nandan and Alpana Chandavarkar sponsored the cleanup event, while Clinton Vaz from vRecycle covered all transport, processing, and disposal costs of the collected trash.
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