Wednesday, July 16. 2008
Sink the Flying Cloud Project...BVISO July News
From: The British Virgin Islands SCUBA Organization
For: Immediate Release
July 15th, 2008: It has been a busy month for the "Sink The Flying Cloud Project"....
1) A website has been created so our Flying Cloud project has a permanent "home" all its own! It looks good! Check it out at Windjammer Flying Cloud
2) We have been down to Trinidad to go over the Flying Cloud, made sure she can withstand the tow up to the BVI. It looks like an arrival date in the BVI for the Flying Cloud will be in late October. No word on the actual sinking date of the wreck yet.
3) We have received the support of the National Parks Trust for our project and its sinking!
4) Conservation and Fisheries have supported our choice location to sink in between Cooper and Ginger Island and we are busy doing addtional studies that they have asked for. These are called Bathymetric surveys. One will be a large scale chart of the area it is to be sunk in, with GPS and Depth scales. We must also make fish counts, and plot how far out from the reef the barrel sponges go so they can decide exactly where she will lay.
5) We are now up and running with Ocean River Institute acting as our non -profit 501(c) 3 partner. Additionally, we can accept small donations online through Paypal on Sink the Flying Cloud DONATIONS page.
6) We have started collecting stories, and pictures and making "Memory" Pages on the Flying Cloud by the year. We have several up on the Windjammer website already, check them out with plenty more to come!
7) Our very own Brian Olson, from Sunchaser SCUBA on Virgin Gorda has written an article "The Caribbean's Newest Artifical Reef?" You can read it on the Sink the Flying Cloud site.
So, I guess the point of this post, is you can read everything on the Sink the Flying Cloud site
Photo courtesy of Ed Hibsman
For: Immediate Release
July 15th, 2008: It has been a busy month for the "Sink The Flying Cloud Project"....
1) A website has been created so our Flying Cloud project has a permanent "home" all its own! It looks good! Check it out at Windjammer Flying Cloud
2) We have been down to Trinidad to go over the Flying Cloud, made sure she can withstand the tow up to the BVI. It looks like an arrival date in the BVI for the Flying Cloud will be in late October. No word on the actual sinking date of the wreck yet.
3) We have received the support of the National Parks Trust for our project and its sinking!
4) Conservation and Fisheries have supported our choice location to sink in between Cooper and Ginger Island and we are busy doing addtional studies that they have asked for. These are called Bathymetric surveys. One will be a large scale chart of the area it is to be sunk in, with GPS and Depth scales. We must also make fish counts, and plot how far out from the reef the barrel sponges go so they can decide exactly where she will lay.
5) We are now up and running with Ocean River Institute acting as our non -profit 501(c) 3 partner. Additionally, we can accept small donations online through Paypal on Sink the Flying Cloud DONATIONS page.
6) We have started collecting stories, and pictures and making "Memory" Pages on the Flying Cloud by the year. We have several up on the Windjammer website already, check them out with plenty more to come!
7) Our very own Brian Olson, from Sunchaser SCUBA on Virgin Gorda has written an article "The Caribbean's Newest Artifical Reef?" You can read it on the Sink the Flying Cloud site.
So, I guess the point of this post, is you can read everything on the Sink the Flying Cloud site
Photo courtesy of Ed Hibsman
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