Le Meridien Fisherman's Cove Project

The Fisherman's Cove  project has been ruled by a girl team lately, meet Carolyn and Lois our two new volunteers !  Frankie, the Hawksbill turtle  Hello, my name is Carolyn and I am ecologist who has been stuck on the land for too long. I have travelled from wet and windy Scotland to the tropical shores of the Seychelles to complete my Divemaster training, volunteer with marine conservation projects and, most importantly, spend some time in the oceans again! I recently completed ten weeks with Dive Seychelles Underwater Centre to do my Divemaster internship. The highlight of that was undoubtedly seeing a WHALE SHARK!!! during a dive just round the corner from Fisherman’s Cove.   So far during my time at Fisherman’s Cove I’ve built confidence with freediving – I still aim to be able to clean a whole row of the nursery on one breath…just now I can do almost half-way along a row. I have wrestled with marine life while cleaning the snorkel trail (the spiny se...

It’s been a busy month here at the Fisherman's cove! We have welcomed five new volunteers from all different parts of the world. Each of us had his own nationality: Seychellois, British, Italian, American, Russian, Portuguese and French. Our everyday activities include maintaining the snorkeling trail for the hotel guests and taking them  out on excursions, as well as cleaning our coral nurseries and monitoring the fragments condition, which has taught our volunteers some valuable new skills. We’ve also been training them by taking them out on the reef to spot different coral and fish genera, to improve their knowledge of the array of marine life in the Seychelles. With their help, we constructed a fifth coral nursery and put the new underwater mailbox in place. The in-situ coral nurseries The brand new underwater postbox   “Hello, I’m Rafaela, I’m 24 years and I’m from Portugal! I’m currently doing my masters in Marine Biology in the University of Al...