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Martin & Brenda van Gestel

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Playas del Coco

Costa Rica

9° 47' 44.4408" N, 84° 1' 24.3768" W

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The only PADI 5* CDC center in Costa Rica, and only TEC REC center in Guanacaste.

Join us for fun diving, clean ups and courses. All our courses come with a project aware certification! We donate $10 of every course fee padi to project aware. Match our dontaion!

Rich Coast Diving is working hard in Playas del Coco to prevent shark finning. We try to teach the local community that the ocean is there future, we go to local schools and we work with a local artist Carlos Hiller, who does a wonderful job on displaying the sharks. The area is famous for bull sharks and we try everything to keep it that way. There is no shark feeding.

My Blog Entries

Submitted by Rich Coast Diving on Mar. 11/13

Go team Sharks!

Today sharks and campaigners for their protection were afforded a massive victory. Currently there is an ongoing conference in Bangkok where CITES, the convention on international trade of endangered species, are trying to protect many types of animals and today was the shark and manta day.

Submitted by Rich Coast Diving on Mar. 11/13

Go team Sharks!

Submitted by Rich Coast Diving on Feb. 21/13

Finathon

Find a sponsor and Swim with us on MArch 30th 2013 @ 3pm on the beach in Playas del Coco.

find people who are willing to give you some cash for every 500 meter you swim. Our team will keep track of your distance and you can collect the money which will all be donated to Project Aware. Give Sharks a fighting chance. Help us out. More info dive@richcoastdiving.com

Submitted by Rich Coast Diving on Dec. 23/12

The Manta Ray

Manta rays have a cartilaginous skeleton, several external gill openings and the biggest brain of all fish species relative to body size. Manta rays are also the largest ray in the sea, they are measured by their disc width not their length like many sharks and ray species.

Submitted by Rich Coast Diving on Jun. 28/12

shark Tags

We are ready to start our next project in tagging the bullsharks at Bat islands. Once we are sucessfull we will organize another event to celebrate.

We received another $500 from signatures from the local community here in Coco, so this little extra came in handy for mision Tiburon.

The tags arrived last week and with alot of paperwork and procedures we were able to get them to Coco yesterday afternoon. :)

We will keep you posted on the steps that Mision Tiburon takes to tag the sharks.

Submitted by Rich Coast Diving on Mar. 13/12

Saving the Sharks

We finished our festival See our Sea and it was a big success, we raised enough money for Mision Tiburon to buy more tags for the bull sharks. With the organization: See our Sea" we would like to continue to spread awareness tot he people. Our next project is a bullitin board on the boardwalk by the beach to show people what is happening to the ocean.

Submitted by Rich Coast Diving on Feb. 08/12

SEE OUR SEA

March 1 to 4 2012 we are organizing a festival to safe the SHARKS!!

Together with mision Tiburon and Carlos Hiller, Rich Coast Diving is trying to raise money to tag sharks and help them survive attacks form humans

We are going to the local schools to teach them the importance of the sharks, there will be lectures and entertainment.

Live music every night, bbq and more.

Help us out join the fest and help safe the sharks!

Submitted by Rich Coast Diving on Jan. 02/12

Happy New Year

First of all Rich Coast Diving likes to wish all the divers a happy new year! So what is new for 2012? We would like to announce that we are going 100% AWARE, so all our students will be certified with an Aware logo on their card. Part of their course fee will be donated to project Aware and this way we hope to get a small step closer to cleaner oceans and less Shark Finning!

Come and join our sharks wall, write your message to the world!

Submitted by Rich Coast Diving on Jan. 02/12

Happy New Year

Come and join our sharks wall, write your message to the world!

Submitted by Rich Coast Diving on Nov. 24/11

Rich Coast Diving receives the PADI GREEN STAR AWARD

We're pleased to announce that Rich Coast Diving has received the PADI Green Star award this month. The Green Star Award is a project from Project Aware to make us divers more consious about our environment. In order to receive this, Project Aware requires dive centers to keep track of their use of energy and water in their facility. But also the use of online certifications. Just in sentence "We have to go GREEN" Join Rich Coast Diving and lets go Green together!