Press Release
Summary = Introduce your kids to diving in a weeklong program, May
22
– August 26, combining basic PADI courses and experiential
education sessions working with dolphin trainers.
Press Release
Body =
ROATAN, BAY ISLANDS OF HONDURAS – Have you wanted to dive but feel bad leaving the kids behind? Have you dreamed of the day
your kids could join you on the dive boat?
Anthony's Key
Resort and the Roatan Institute of Marine Sciences (RIMS) offer
a weeklong Discovery SCUBA Camp to vacationing kids, 5-14 years
old, who want to split their time learning to dive and learning
about dolphins while working with dolphin
trainers to feed, train, swim with and learn about dolphins.
Discovery SCUBA
Camp and RIMS exemplify Anthony’s Key Resort’s mission
to preserve
Honduras’ natural resources through experiential education
and research. During Camp, kids are introduced to the basics of
diving and marine biology. Adults and kids rendezvous when all dive
boats come in, activities stop and everyone gathers at the Resort
to eat.
The Discovery
SCUBA Camp package, for kids 5-14 years old, includes 7 nights accommodations
at Anthony’s Key Resort, three meals daily, all camp activities,
equipment and materials for $625 per child, plus 16% hotel tax based
on double
occupancy for 2005. Camp will only be conducted for groups of 6-15
kids per scheduled week, Sunday – Friday, May 22-Aug. 26,
Nov. 20-25 and Dec. 18-30, 2005. While equipment is included, it
is recommended that kids bring their own mask,
snorkel and fins to ensure a more comfortable fit. For details,
call 1-800-227-3483 or visit www.anthonyskey.com.
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Located 35 mi (56km) off the coast of Honduras on Roatan, Bay Islands,
Anthony’s Key Resort sits next to the second largest barrier
reef system in the world. There are hundreds of dive sites to choose
from, 35 sites within 5-30 minutes away, in waters averaging 80
degree or better with 80-100 feet visibility. The Roatan Institute
of Marine Sciences (RIMS), owned and operated by Anthony’s
Key Resort, is a unique research and educational facility with the
only dolphin program in Honduras. Dolphins reside in an unaltered
natural lagoon, complete with a living coral reef ecosystem, and
leave to be trained in the open ocean. PADI instructors from the
Resort’s Scuba School lead four age-appropriate introductory
courses for campers: SASY, Bubblemakers, Junior SCUBA Divers, and
Junior Open Water Divers. “In SASY, which is Supplied Air
Snorkeling for Youth, kids 5-8 essentially SCUBA on the surface
of the water,” says Teri Bolton, RIMS trainer and Discovery
SCUBA Camp founder. “Kids wear a solid floatation device that
looks like a water skiing vest. A small PONY tank, about the size
of a two-liter of pop, allows them to breathe naturally.”
Bubblemakers gives eight to 10 year-olds the chance to SCUBA dive
in six feet of water. Ten year-olds and older, can become Junior
SCUBA Divers, diving 40 feet with
a PADI professional. Junior Open Water is designed for children
ages 10 to 15. Upon completion of this course, kids aged 10 and
11 may descend to no more than 40 feet accompanied by a parent,
guardian, or PADI professional. Children aged 12 to 14 will be qualified
to dive when accompanied by any open water certified adult. Discovery
SCUBA Camp counselors from RIMS facilitate educational activities,
such as learning about the bottlenose dolphin diet and feeding the
animals fish with the
trainers. Kids also learn hand signals for behaviors in the classroom
and then go outside on the key to try them out with trained RIMS
dolphins. Other activities include marine life slide shows, island
field trips (often to the Iguana Farm, Bird Park and/or Butterfly
Farm), dolphin identification lessons, dolphin evolution, anatomy
and physiology lectures and a family beach encounter with the dolphins.
Anthony’s Key Resort has been family-owned and operated for
30 years by Julio Galindo, Sr., who at one time served as mayor
of Roatan. In 1989, he founded the Roatan Institute of Marine Sciences.
Anthony’s
Key Resort, a PADI 5-Star Gold Palm Resort, offers the least expensive
diver training and PADI certification in the Caribbean and runs
a PADI Instructor Development Center. Eleven custom dive boats are
available to leave three times daily for reef, wall, wreck dives and two weekly night dives. Outer island excursion day trips are
also available. The on-site medical facility, serving residents
and visitors, includes a hyperbaric chamber.
Beyond the world-class
dive sites, Roatan has much to offer above the surface of the ocean.
Canopy tours rush visitors through the treetops, swaying over the
island peaks, and down the steep slopes to Tabyana Beach. If high
altitude and high speed are too much of a rush, there are horses
to ride on the beaches, kayaks to paddle around its shores, fly
fishing on the flats and dolphins to play with in the surf. Visitors
can also arrange to visit Maya Ruin sites or hike in a cloud forest
in the
mainland of Honduras.
Web Site = http://www.anthonyskey.com
Contact Details
= Chris Higgins
Director & Owner Seasmoke PR Inc.
Phone: (250) 721-2739
Fax: (250) 385-2730
E-mail: chris@seasmokepr.com
Web: www.seasmokepr.com
2025
