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Rounding off Mission 2020

Well, the year 2020 has certainly been a “mission”. When we signed up to Mission 2020 at the start of 2019 and pledged to remove all front of house single-use plastics, who could have predicted what the world would be currently facing?! It has been a challenging year on many levels, but one success we can be proud of is our progress with eliminating such plastics, and reducing our overall…
Kirsty Richards
13th December 2020
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Life in LEGO

In September last year (2019) our in-house Marine Biologist, Kirsty, was involved in an international photography project with award-winning photographer Dean West and acclaimed LEGO sculptor Nathan Sawaya. Life in LEGO  The initial 2013 project “In Pieces” combined Sawaya’s life-size LEGO sculptures with West’s hyper-realistic photography and was exhibited in 14 countries around the world. In 2019 they joined forces once again to use their unique creativity to highlight the…
Kirsty Richards
9th February 2020
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Beach clean-up in December after a sudden flurry of trash

A short update from our quick-fire beach clean-up on December 12 - following a few days of calm seas, the wind switched back to normal earlier in the week and with that came a sudden flurry of trash. This beach clean-up was our heaviest yet, with 96 kg of trash during only 30 minutes. 95% was plastic, including 333 plastic bottles, 114 shoes & flip flops and a paddling pool! More…
Ulrika Kroon
16th December 2019
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Atmosphere goes big on International Clean-up Day

We regularly conduct beach cleans here at Atmosphere. As 15th - 22nd September was Project AWARE week and Saturday 21st was International Coastal Clean-up Day, we stepped things up a gear. Diving against debris Seven divers, including our PADI Regional Training Consultant Pam, sunk beneath the surface of our house reef to Dive Against Debris. Even Oli, our Dive Centre Manager, donned a wetsuit (this never happens!). After searching for…
Kirsty Richards
26th September 2019
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Mission 2020 – 6 month update at Atmosphere Resort

6 months down, 12 months to go - time flies when you’re reducing plastic waste! At the beginning of the year we decided to officially join the global fight on single-use plastics by signing up to Mission 2020, (an online platform created by Fourth Element, enabling organisations from the global diving community to pledge to do something for the environment by World Oceans Day, 2020). Atmosphere’s pledge: At Atmosphere Resorts &…
Kirsty Richards
1st July 2019