Welcome to the BVI SCUBA Organizations site on the Windjammer Flying Cloud!
July 15th, 2008: It has been a busy month for the "Sink The Flying Cloud Project"....
1) This Website has been created so our Flying Cloud project has a permanent "home" all its own!
2) We are now up and running with Ocean River acting as our non -profit 501(c) 3 partner. Additionally, we can accept small donations online through Paypal on our DONATIONS page.
3) 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.
4) We have received the support of the National Parks Trust for our project and its sinking!
5) 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.
6) We have started collecting stories, and pictures and making "Memory" Pages on the Flying Cloud by the year. We have several up 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 here.
8) The BVI Yacht Guide has an article on the Flying Cloud out this month. Full story at the link and here is a PDF
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