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Aware Shark Conservation

1. AWARE Shark Conservation Diver
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2. Welcome to your course
Introductions
Course goals
Course overview
Class requirements
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3. Click to view the
Sharks in Peril
video
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4. We’ll talk about . . .
Unique physical attributes of sharks
Conservation status of sharks
Life history traits that make sharks
vulnerable
Importance to marine ecosystems
SECTION 1: Sharks in Peril and why we should care
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SECTION 1
Sharks in Peril

5. We’ll talk about . . .
Threats to sharks
Management strategies to protect
sharks
Value to local economies
Misperceptions of sharks
SECTION 2: Managing threats and recognising values
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Continued . . .
SECTION 2
Managing Threats

6. We’ll talk about . . .
Personal actions to protect sharks
Your local sharks
Responsible environmental
guidelines for diving with sharks
Join the Project AWARE movement
SECTION 3: Taking action and joining the Project AWARE
movement
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SECTION 3
Taking Action

7. Sharks in Peril
and why we should care
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SECTION 1:

8. What are the unique physical
attributes of sharks?
First sharks over 400 mya
Modern sharks around 100 mya
Found in every marine environment
Roughly 500 species
Most sharks have:
a streamlined, torpedo shaped
body
rigid dorsal and pectoral fins
Most predators, some scavengers
or filter feeders
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Continued . . .

9. What are the unique physical
attributes of sharks?
Sharks have unique physical
attributes that make them
different from other fish:
Skeleton made from
cartilage
Large oiled filled liver
Exposed gill slits
Share these attributes with
rays, skates and chimaeras
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10. What is the conservation
status of sharks?
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International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Red List Review of 1044 Shark, Ray and Chimaera Species
Critically Endangered 2%Extremely high risk of extinction in the wild
Endangered 4%Very high risk of extinction in the wild
Vulnerable 11%High risk of extinction in the wild
Near Threatened 13%
Close to qualifying or likely to qualify for a threatened
category in the near future
Least Concern 23%
Not qualifying as Threatened including widespread and
abundant species
Data Deficient 47%More information required for assessment
30% of 1044 assessed sharks, rays and chimaeras are Threatened
or Near Threatened with extinction

11. What is the conservation
status of sharks?
More alarming estimates:
More alarming estimates
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Species Location Status
Sharks and rays
Pelagic
(open ocean)
One third threatened with extinction
Hammerhead sharks
NW & W Central
Atlantic
Declined by 89% since 1986
Great hammerheads E Atlantic Declined by 80%
Porbeagle and spiny
dogfish sharks
NW Atlantic Reduced by 90%
Sharks Europe One third Threatened with extinction
14 species of sharks
and rays
Mediterranean Critically Endangered

12. What life history traits make
sharks vulnerable?
Sharks vulnerable to overfishing
because:
Long time to sexual maturity
Long gestations
Small number of offspring
Breed only every 2nd or 3rd
year
Strategy works under natural
conditions
Fails when fishing removes many
individuals
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Continued . . .

13. What life history traits make
sharks vulnerable?
Compare shark reproductive
strategy with bony fish that:
Release millions of eggs in a
lifetime, so
More likely to recover from
fishing impacts
Most fisheries management based
on bony fish strategy
Sharks tend to form groups based
on age, gender and maturity
Removal of older breeding age
females
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Continued . . .

14. What is the importance of
sharks to marine ecosystems?
Keep a balance among prey
species
Often the apex predator
Top of many food chains
Feed on many different
species
Change food when one
prey animal is hard to find
Remove sick, injured and
diseased animals
Crucial to maintain health of marine ecosystems
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15. What is the importance of
sharks to marine ecosystems?
Food chains describe how energy moves among species
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Small
carnivores
consumed
by large
carnivores
until apex
predators
reached
Herbivores
consumed
by
carnivores
(meat
eaters)
Plants
consumed
by
herbivores
(plant
eaters)
Starts with
plants that
use the
sun’s
energy to
make their
body parts
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16. What is the importance of
sharks to marine ecosystems?
Removing animals from a food chain can have repercussions
throughout an ecosystem:
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Fewer apex predators
more lower-level carnivores
fewer herbivores
more macroalgae
(e.g. seaweed, base of food chain)
Continued . . .

17. What is the importance of
sharks to marine ecosystems?
Study at NW Hawaii Islands
Apex predators:
More than 50% of fish
biomass
Less than 10% on fished
reefs
Sharks are bigger
Populations of all species are far
greater
A larger variety of other species
Relatively untouched reefs can show the impact of removing apex
predators (including sharks)
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18. What is the importance of
sharks to marine ecosystems?
Prefer to eat in the middle of sea
grass bed
Stay on outside when sharks
present
Seagrass beds important habitat for
many species
Sharks found to protect seagrass beds from over-grazing by
dugongs and green sea turtles:
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Sharks keep marine environments healthy -
Important for all marine animals and for humans!

19. We’ve talked about
Unique physical attributes of sharks
Conservation status of sharks
Life history traits that make sharks
vulnerable
Importance to marine ecosystems
SECTION 1: Sharks in Peril and why we should care
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Any Questions?

20. Managing threats and
recognising values
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21. What major threats contribute
to declines in shark populations?
Targeted fisheries and as
bycatch
Mainly caught for:
Fins: to make shark fin
soup
Meat: strong demand
from Europe
It is mostly due to overfishingthat many shark species
are threatened with extinction
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22. What major threats contribute
to declines in shark populations?
Total of annual shark catch:
Nearly 80% -top 20 shark catching nations
More than 35%-top 4 shark catching nations
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The top 20 shark catching nations in order of size of catch, greatest take first
Rank Country Rank Country Rank Country Rank Country
1 Indonesia 6 Mexico 11 Thailand 16 Portugal
2 India 7 Pakistan 12 France 17 Nigeria
3 Spain 8 USA 13 Brazil 18 Iran
4 Taiwan 9 Japan 14 Sri Lanka 19 UK
5 Argentina 10 Malaysia 15 New Zealand 20 S Korea
Source: The Future of Sharks: A Review of Action and Inaction
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23. What major threats contribute
to declines in shark populations?
Some of the many uses of shark body parts
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Species Part Where How
Most sharks Fins Global, but
centered on Asia
Shark finsoup
Spiny dogfish Meat Europe
Spiny dogfish Meat UK Fish and Chips
Spiny dogfish Meat Germany To make Schillerlocken
Porbeagle Meat France Known as veal of the sea
Mako, thresher and
blacktip
Meat America Shark steaks
Greenland and
basking shark
Meat Iceland and
Greenland
Used to produce hákarl
Continued . . .

24. What major threats contribute
to declines in shark populations?
Some of the many uses of shark body parts
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Part Where How
Meat AustraliaKnown as flake, often used in fish and chips
Meat Global Products called fishmay contain shark i.e. fish
fingers
Liver oil Global Many industrial uses
Shark skin A delicacy and also used to make leather
products
Liver oiland
cartilage
Said to have health benefits, though unproven
Jaws and
teeth
sold as souvenirs
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25. What major threats contribute
to declines in shark populations?
Food and Agriculture
Organisation (FOA) estimate of
shark, ray and chimaera catch:
2003: 0.90 million tonnes
2006: 0.75 million tonnes
Unknown if decline due to:
Better fisheries
management
Less sharks
Combination of both
Difficult to estimate annual shark take
Countries have different reporting requirements, or none at all
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26. What major threats contribute
to declines in shark populations?
Study of shark fin trade records shows FAO figures an
underestimate
Found annual shark catch to support global shark fin trade to be:
Between 1.21 to 2.29 million tonnes, with a median of 1.70
million tonnes
Equivalent to between 26 and 73 million sharks
Therefore 38 million sharks per yearis the best estimate for the
global shark catch
This figure does not include:
Sharks killed for domestic fin markets
Sharks discarded dead at sea
Sharks killed for their meat only
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27. What major threats contribute
to declines in shark populations?
Status symbol in Chinese
culture
Demand fast outpacing supply
Driving the global depletion of
shark populations
Among the most valuable
fisheries products
Bowl of soup can cost
US$100
Shark Fin Soup
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28. What major threats contribute
to declines in shark populations?
Removing a shark's fins at sea
Often still alive
Body dumped overboard
Why do fishers do that?
High value of fins / low value
of meat
Why is this allowed to happen?
Finning banned by many
countries, but
Poor monitoring and
regulations
Shark Finning
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29. What major threats contribute
to declines in shark populations?
Part of a catch that is:
not the target species, or
undersized
Can not be landed in many
regions
Often dumped overboard
Tens of millions of sharks
killed as bycatch every year
Usually not recorded in fishery
records
Bycatch
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30. What major threats contribute
to declines in shark populations?
Habitat Loss
75% coral reefs threatened
from local pressures and
climate change
1/5
th
mangroves removed
since 1980
Coastal Development
Damages shark habitats
and nurseries
Other Impacts
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31. What major threats contribute
to declines in shark populations?
Marine debris
Our rubbish in the ocean
Sharks eat marine debris or
become entangled
Ghost nets
Swimmer protection devices
Beach nets and baited drumlines
Kills harmless sharks
Kills other species: dolphins,
rays and turtles etc
Other Impacts
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32. What key management
strategies can protect sharks?
Be well-enforced, with science-
based catch limits
Have conservation measures
consistent throughout the
range of each species
Be science-based and take a
precautionary approach
Aim to minimise waste
For shark fisheries to be sustainable, shark fisheries
management should:
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We will now look at some management strategies that can help
protect sharks
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33. What key management
strategies can protect sharks?
Shark fishing nations to implement a
National Plan of Action (NPOA) for the
conservation and management of sharks
Aims to make shark fisheries sustainable
by:
Assessing threats such as overfishing
Protecting critical habitats
Minimising waste and discards (e.g.
finning bans)
Encouraging the full use of dead sharks
International Plan of Action-Sharks (IPOA-Sharks)
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34. What key management
strategies can protect sharks?
Should implement a Shark NPOA
by 2001:
Voluntary
As of 2011 only 13 of the Top
20 nations have a plan
IPOA process has raised the
profile of sharks
Led to some improvement in
shark fisheries management
International Plan of Action-Sharks (IPOA-Sharks)
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35. What key management
strategies can protect sharks?
Facilitate management of multi-
nation fishing:
In international waters, or
For highly migratory species
Aims to conserve fish populations
through agreements
Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs)
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36. What key management
strategies can protect sharks?
Slow to address shark overfishing
Management based on fast
breeding bony fish
Most RFMOs banned shark
finning
But did not set international
shark fishing quotas for the
high seas
Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs)
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37. What key management
strategies can protect sharks?
Finning banned by most RFMOs
and nearly 30 countries
Does not stop sharks being caught
Aims to ensure shark carcasses
are kept after fins removed
Stipulates a maximum fin to carcass
ratio allowed onboard
Dump the carcass = exceed the
ratio
Finning Bans
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38. What key management
strategies can protect sharks?
IUCN recommends ratio not exceed
5% of dressed weight
Dressed weight = heads and
guts removed
Using whole weight creates a
loophole
Allows 2 to 3 sharks to be finned
for every carcass kept
Europe and Brazil bans specify
whole weight
Sets a bad example
Finning Bans
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39. What key management
strategies can protect sharks?
Finning bans could
dramatically reduce
shark mortality if
properly enforced
Finning Bans
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Most effective way to enforce finning bans
is to require that carcasses are landed
with fins naturally attached

40. What key management
strategies can protect sharks?
International agreement among
175 countries
Regulates or bans international
trade in Threatened species
Binding on member countries
Resistance to listing sharks due
to commercial value
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild
Fauna and Flora (CITES)
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41. What key management
strategies can protect sharks?
As of 2011 only three sharks
included under CITES Appendix II:
Basking Shark
Whale Shark
Great White Shark
Proposals to list porbeagle,
hammerhead and oceanic whitetip
sharks rejected
Convention on International Trade in Endangered
Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
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42. What key management
strategies can protect sharks?
Protect from extractive industries
Fishing
Mining
Collecting for aquariums
Known by variety of names
marine parks
aquatic reserves
marine reserves
sanctuary zones
etc
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
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43. What key management
strategies can protect sharks?
Different levels of protection:
Fully protected no-take zones
(all extractive activities banned),
or
Multiple uses through a system
of zoning
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
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44. What key management
strategies can protect sharks?
Benefits of MPAs:
Bony fish recover from
overfishing
More fish in surrounding areas
Economic advantages through
marine tourism
Only around 1% of the world’s
ocean protected by MPAs
Less than 0.1% of these MPAs are
no-take zones
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
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45. What key management
strategies can protect sharks?
Protects sharks when positioned
over key habitats:
Where sharks congregate to
mate
Nursery grounds
Works best for sharks with
limited range
Migratory sharks?
If a network of MPAs covers
the range of habitats through
which the sharks migrate
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
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46. What key management
strategies can protect sharks?
Dive tourism can lead to the
creation of shark sanctuaries:
Palau, 2009: entire ocean
territory
Maldives, 2010: entire ocean
territory
Bahamas and Honduras,
2011: territorial waters
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
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47. What key management
strategies can protect sharks?
To be effective shark sanctuaries
need:
Management and monitoring
Funding
Patrols and enforcement
Compensation for fishers, or
an alternate income
Dive tourism is leading to local
and even national protection for
sharks
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
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48. What key management
strategies can protect sharks?
Result of fisheries
management failures
Level of illegal shark fishing
may not be high
Few rules to break!
Lack of species-specific
reporting a huge hindrance to
shark conservation
Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing
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49. What is the value of sharks
to local economies?
Continue to provide income
and protein for many people
if fished at a sustainable
level
Sharks provide economic benefits as a source of food and as
tourist attractions
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The problem is not that we are fishing for sharks;
the problem is that in most cases
we are overfishingsharks

50. What is the value of sharks
to local economies?
Sharks at popular dive centres have a greater value as tourist
attractions than when fished
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Value of shark dive tourismto
Palau
$18 million per year
US$1.9 million one reef shark
over its lifetime
US$108one shark when fished
Value of shark dive tourism to
the Maldives
US$3,300one reef shark per year
US$33,500one reef shark per
year at the most popular sites
US$32one shark when fished
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51. What is the value of sharks
to local economies?
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Value of shark dive tourism to
the Bahamas
US$800 millionover a twenty
year period
US$250,000one reef shark over
its lifetime
US$50-60one shark when fished
Value of globalwhale shark
tourism
US$47.5 millionin 2004
Value of shark and ray tourism
to the Canary Islands
€17.7 million annually
429jobs supported
Value of shark dive tourism to
South Africa
US$4.1 million diving with great
white sharks, 2003
US$1.8 million diving with tiger
sharks, 2007
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52. What is the value of sharks
to local economies?
Dive tourism can:
Improve appreciation of
sharks
Create shark conservation
advocates
This can lead to protection for
shark species not associated
with diving, such as those in
international waters
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53. How do we remove common
misperceptions of sharks that are a barrier to conservation?
Undeserved reputation as a
mindless killer
Often portrayed as man-eaters
Media often greatly exaggerates
shark attack stories
1975 film Jawsportrayed sharks
as vengeful hunters of humans
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54. How do we remove common
misperceptions of sharks that are a barrier to conservation?
The reality?
Unlikely to attack
International Shark Attack File 2010:
79 unprovoked shark attacks
Only 6 were fatal
Shark attacks levelled off over last
30 years to average 63.5 per year
Growing human population means
number of attacks should increase
Falling shark populations the
possible explanation
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55. How do we remove common
misperceptions of sharks that are a barrier to conservation?
Only about 10 species implicated
in unprovoked attacks
Mostly bull, tiger, and white
sharks
Most attacks thought to be
mistakes or explorations
Not understanding the variety of shark species another barrier to
protection
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Ocean the shark's home
We choose to accept the risk
when we swim

56. We’ve talked about
Threats to sharks
Management strategies to protect
sharks
Value to local economies
Misperceptions of sharks
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Any Questions?

57. Taking action and joining the
Project AWARE movement
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58. What personal actions
can I take to protect sharks?
Get involved
Make personal changes to
protect sharks
Join campaigns
Support Marine Protected Areas
Tell others
Respond to alarmist media
stories
Support Project AWARE
www.projectaware.org
Tread lightly on the planet
Everyday Actions
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59. What personal actions
can I take to protect sharks?
If you choose to eat seafood
Look for sustainable fisheries
Sustainable Seafood
Guides
Avoid products that contain
sharks
Choose not to eat shark fin soup
Avoid purchasing items that
contain shark products
Support genuine ecotourism
operations
Purchase Decisions
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60. What personal actions
can I take to protect sharks?
Make your dives count
Dive Against Debris
Be an AWARE diver
Ten Ways A Diver Can Protect
The Underwater Environment
Ten Tips for Underwater
Photographers
Be an AWARE Diver
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61. What sharks are found in our local area
and what is their conservation status?
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62. What sharks are found in our local area
and what is their conservation status?
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63. Environmental Guidelines for
diving with sharks
Be an AWARE diver
Do not block their movement by
swimming in front of them, allow
them to move away
Do not block their exit if they are
inside a cave or overhang
These guidelines will help you minimise your impacts when
diving with sharks
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Do not descend on top of
sharks
Do not get close to sharks
Be familiar with and follow
local regulations and
protocols
Always seek safety advice from a dive professional familiar with
sharks found at the dive site before diving with sharks

64. Join the Project AWARE movement
Ocean fighting for its life!
2 major issues where divers can
make a difference
Shark decline
Marine debris
Dive Against Debris: underwater
survey of rubbish in our ocean
Your data will:
Cause changes that stop rubbish from
entering the ocean
Reduce marine life death and injuries
Project AWARE’s powerful movement for ocean protection starts
with you
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Continued . . .

65. Join the Project AWARE movement
Dive Centres and AWARE leaders
Manage local conservation
events
Report data
Connect with volunteers
Explore My Ocean
Create a profile
Volunteer for events
Find new dive buddies
My Ocean –unique eco-networking site for ocean protection
S3: Taking Action
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Continued . . .
Your
Profile
Your
Blogs
Your
Buddies

66. Join the Project AWARE movement
Calls to action, petitions and
activities centered on our ocean
planet
Think ocean protection every
time you dive
Join the movement to protect our
ocean planet –one dive at a time
Be an AWARE Diver
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www.projectaware.org

67. We’ve talked about
Personal actions to protect sharks
Your local sharks
Responsible environmental
guidelines for diving with sharks
Join the Project AWARE movement
SECTION 3: Taking action and joining the Project AWARE
movement
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Any Questions?

68. Join the Movement
www.projectaware.org