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From:TheBahamasWeekly.com Service Organizations
For the second year in a row Aqua Cat - a Nassau-based, live-aboard dive service - is supporting the Bahamas National Trust (BNT )Dive Tag Initiative, which lets divers buy a souvenir tag for their dive equipment to help fund national parks. Aqua Cat is a 102-foot catamaran that carries up to 30 passengers on weekly dive cruises to the Exumas. It’s one of a fleet of live-aboard vessels owned by Bruce Purdy. The BNT dive tags are included in the Aqua Cat cruise package. The Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park is a top destination for Aqua Cat, which supports the park with annual donations.This year the vessel’s operator donated three video cameras with waterproof housings to the BNT for ecological monitoring activities. “Aqua Cat's corporate mission is to help protect the tourism product that we all rely on,” said Captain Des Greyling. “And we want to deepen our partnership with the BNT by offering our support whenever it’s needed.” The BNT manages 32 national parks around the country, many with marine components. This is a costly responsibility and the dive tag programme is one way to help finance research, education, maintenance and enforcement programmes.
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