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UNEXSO continues PADI-assisted mooring ball programme

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The continuing job of the dive team at UNEXSO, to replenish and attach mooring balls along the south coast of Grand Bahama, is made possible by partial funding from the diving organisation PADI and their Project Aware campaign. PADI, Financially assisting diving operations to purchase mooring balls, rope, and also establish mooring pins on the sea floor, provides a safe way for snorkel and dive boats to tie up without anchoring and subsequently damaging the endangered coral reef in the process. UNEXSO has been actively pursuing mooring ball installations for over 20 years. Niall Christoffersen [Operations Manager] and Cristina Zenato [Diving Supervisor] of UNEXSO lead this project and have made an on-going commitment to protecting the reefs of Grand Bahama.