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Happy birthday to Ashley Benson 

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Why Oceans 5 Gili Air Ensures All Dive Instructors Hold a Minimum Rating of Master Scuba Diver Trainer

Oceans 5 Gili Air prides itself on maintaining the highest standards in dive education, ensuring that all instructors hold at least the MSDT

Oceans 5 Gili Air prides itself on maintaining the highest standards in dive education, ensuring that all dive instructors hold at least the Master Scuba Diver Trainer (MSDT) rating. This philosophy is not just about achieving a certain level of certification—it is about creating a superior learning environment for students, providing stability within the dive center, and offering a clear path for instructor development. By fostering an environment where instructors continuously develop their skills, Oceans 5 creates a win-win situation for both the dive professionals and the dive center itself.

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Marine Sanctuary Concept gets evaluated for Funding

An international funding organization is looking at providing assistance to Palau’s bid to declare 80 percent of its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) as marine protected area, the grant however will be dependent on the passage of the marine sanctuary pan now pending before Olbiil Era Kelulau (OEK).

Oceans 5 Program Director Charles Fox in a press conference yesterday state that him and another colleague is in Palau to evaluate a potential grant to help Palau implement proposed marine sanctuary.

“Palau’s proposed marine sanctuary has captured global attention. It is a thoughtful, well-designed initiative that will benefit the people of Palau for generations to come. It will strengthen the economy, improve biodiversity and increase domestic fishing production,” he said.

He also lauded the initiative of Palau’s leadership in coming up with the plan that will also be beneficial to the world’s oceans.

Fox said Ocean 5 is a funder’s collaborative comprised of marine philanthropists from the United States and Europe and is focused on projects to stop illegal fishing and establishment of marine reserves.

In October, an amended Palau Marine Sanctuary legislation was proposed by the Executive Branch, the bill amended the measure earlier authored by Sen. Hokkons Baules.

The amendments would immediately ban purse seine fishing and the taking of marine mammals and rays and provide a transition period of five years and after that period create a marine sanctuary covering 80 percent of Palau’s EEZ in which no fishing would occur and create a domestic fishing zone covering 20 percent of Palau’s EEZ in which traditional and domestic fishing activities would be allowed to provide for the domestic market.

The measure also assured that the states in Palau would not lose current revenue streams from fishing activities and identifies additional funding to cover the cost of the marine surveillance.

Fox said the concept proposal it has received from the Palau government is a transitional financial assistance in areas of fisheries, enforcement, marine science, marketing, and administration.

Asked how soon Palau can get the grant, Fox said, their evaluation hinges on the adoption by the OEK of the marine sanctuary plan. He said as they bring the proposal before the Ocean 5 board, “we want to bring them something concrete.”

He said part of their evaluations is to assess Palau’s priority challenges and try to get understanding of the needs and how the organization can best respond to the needs.

As to the funding amount, Fox said at this stage it is still unclear but cited an Ocean 5 funded project in the Cook Islands where they awarded a grant of at least $1.5 million over the course of three years.

Tia Belau News. January 15, 2015.

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Oceans 5 at the 02 in London meet Ginger Gilmour and Steve Mac(Aussie Floyd) and the amazing Lorelei McBroom!

http://www.bunchakeze.com/Lorelei_McBroom_with_Oceans_5.php

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Oceans 5 featuring Pink Floyd's Lorelei McBroom

http://melodicrevolutionrecords.com/album/return-to-mingulay

www.bunchakeze.com

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S’il y a bien un domaine où je semble être particulièrement susceptible au moubourrage, c’est bien celui du rock progressif. Ainsi, la palanquée de chroniques extrêmement positives de l’album Return to Mingulay du projet Oceans 5 (ou, plus précisément, Andy John Bradford’s Oceans 5; attention, le site pique les yeux), m’a incité à acheter l’album.

Comme l’implique le terme « moubourrage » (d’accord, ce n’est pas un vrai mot, mais on s’en fout), je ne suis pas vraiment d’accord avec la majorité de mes confrères chroniqueurs en progitudes. Non que Return to Mingulay soit en soi un mauvais album, mais les chansons de marin retravaillées à la sauce prog-folk, ce n’est pas du tout ma tasse de thé.

Fondamentalement, Return to Mingulay propose, au mieux, du folk teinté de rock progressif et, au pire, quelque chose qui ressemble à une descente d’acide dans un festival bluegrass/country. Quant on s’attend à du rock progressif, c’est assez douloureux. Techniquement, ça en est, mais du style qu’on pouvait écouter à la fin des années 1960, à une époque où le vocable « rock progressif » existait à peine.

L’album ne manque pas d’attraits, si on aime le genre: les musiciens – qui officient dans une myriade d’autres groupes raisonnablement connus – ont de la bouteille (de rhum, comme il sied à des chansons de marin), certaines mélodies accrochent bien l’oreille et il y a de l’allant. Sauf que pour moi, le « si » est un très gros « si ».

Tout ceci pour dire qu’il y a des moments où l’approche « shut up and take my money! » n’est pas des plus intelligentes; dans ce cas précis, j’aurais dû aller sur la page Bandcamp de Return to Mingulay et écouter l’album avant de l’acheter. Tant pis; ce n’est pas la première, ni la dernière fois que ça m’arrive et ça me permettra de laisser derrière moi une musicothèque plus éclectique.

Cet article Oceans 5: Return to Mingulay a été publié initialement sur Blog à part: troisième époque.

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