Dear fellow divers,
As you may already know, many people are
still very scared of Sharks, thanks to some famous movies that contributed to
their bad reputation. The truth is that they should be more scared of humans,
than humans of them. Each year more than 100 million sharks are killed for
their fins, and in many countries shark finning is still very common. Shark
finning refers to the terrible practice of removing a shark´s fin while the
shark is still alive, then the shark is discarded in the ocean again. Unable to
swim they are condemned to die slowly of suffocation or eaten by other
predators.
For these reasons, nowadays it´s becoming more and more
difficult to see a shark while diving.
This is a cruel and wasteful practice that happens daily
around the world being a terrible threat to the health of the ocean and the
entire marine ecosystem, which is made up of very intricate food webs. Sharks
are at the top of these webs; as apex predator they help by removing weak and
sick fish as well as keeping the balance with competitors, helping to ensure
species diversity.
They are considered to be the “keystone” species, which
means that removing them will cause the entire structure´s downfall.
In Playa del Carmen, Phantom Divers collaborates with the
association Saving our Sharks (SOS), with the main goal to know and protect our
sharks, in order to keep our ocean as healthy as possible and raise awareness
for these extremely important creatures.
The main focus are the lords of the ocean that
visit our waters every
year and keep attracting tourists and divers from all over the world to the
Mayan Riviera: the legendary Bull Sharks. For every dive you book with these
magnificent creatures, you are given an orange bracelet representing your support and donation to SOS. So we would like to thank all the people that joined us
this awesome season and see you back in November.
Dive Fun - Dive Safe - Dive Phantom
