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Sea|mester Students Learn about Coral Conservation with Hands-On Experience

Jul 25, 2024 | Blog, Conservation

Yesterday we welcomed 14 students from Sea|mester for a Coral Conservation Day at Nature Island Dive The day began with a lecture by Simon Walsh, co-owner of Nature Island Dive and Director of Coral Restoration for Oceans Forward – a non-profit that supports...

REEF 5K “Fish Out of Water Race” 2024

Jun 11, 2024 | Blog, Conservation

What’s better than having fun while getting fit? This is our third year participating in Reef.org’s fun race event, the REEF 5K Fish Out of Water Race. Fifteen staff members and friends took to the road to walk from Soufriere to Scotts Head and back, which...

Nature Island Dive is the First PADI Eco Center in Dominica

Jun 8, 2024 | Blog, Conservation

Today is WORLD OCEANS DAY, and what better way to celebrate than to announce that we are now a PADI ECO Dive Center! For those of you have been diving here in the past few years, you know what we’re talking about. You’ve seen us on dives, fighting SCTLD...

Nature Island Dive is now a Green Fins Member

May 17, 2024 | Blog, Conservation

We are pleased to announce that Nature Island Dive is now a Green Fins Digital Member! We look forward to becoming a full Green Fins Member as soon as Dominica is added to the list of countries eligible for full membership. This will not come as a surprise to our Dive...

PADI Women’s Dive Day 2023

Jul 15, 2023 | Blog

PADI Women’s Dive Day 2023 ~ July 15th 2023At Nature Island Dive we celebrate women every day, with our majority female crew! So today is a very special day here.On today’s dive, our lady divers were lucky enough to see an octopus, a sea horse, a frogfish...

Underwater Photography Classes

Jun 23, 2023 | Blog

Underwater Photography Specialty Course One of our passions at Nature Island Dive is underwater photography. All of our staff members have at least dabbled in photography, while some of them are professionals.This week we had two participants from the National...

Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) ~ Quick Facts

Jan 20, 2023 | Blog, Conservation

What is Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD)? Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD, pronounced “skittle”) is a disease of corals that first appeared off the southeast coast of Florida in 2014. By 2019 it had spread along the Florida Keys,...

Season’s Greetings to All!

Dec 27, 2022 | Blog

The 2022 holiday season was a lot more celebratory than during the past two years. In tourism, every day is a work day, so Christmas Day was no different. But our staff love to show their spirit! And Mother Nature also added some holiday blessings…...

A Conservation Dive with NID

Dec 11, 2022 | Blog, Conservation

At Nature Island Dive our passion for the sea, and everything in it, is what drives us and gives us joy every single day. We have been protecting the marine environment in Soufriere since 1994. We live and work in the fishing village of Soufriere, Dominica, surrounded...

Desiree and the Lionfish

Nov 26, 2022 | Blog, Conservation

Nature Island Dive has been working hard on marine conservation in many different areas. One of these areas is combatting the invasive lionfish, which reached our shores in 2011. Since then we have been culling the invasive species from the marine reserve. In this...