From Oliver Houston Last week the entire group of staff and volunteers from Blue Ventures were invited to attend a fomba in the nearby village of Ambalarao. A fomba is where people who contain the spirits of ancestors release those ...Read More
My third week in Andavadoaka (as seen by Kelsey Johnston) This week started pretty typically: 6am boat marshalling on Monday followed by two awesome dives (yay!), English teaching on Tuesday evening, a film on Wednesday night and a good dose ...Read More
From BV volunteer Roger Vaughan, a retired teacher from California. Over the past few days I have had the opportunity to travel afield with BV staff members Lalao and Thomas, and volunteers Ben (U. Sheffield grad student), Ali (U. Montreal recent ...Read More
I'm coming to the end of my first week here in Andavadoaka, and I'm already regretting the fact that I've signed up for just six weeks instead of three months. There's so much to see and do here - ...Read More
From Justin, Expedition Manager Dive number: 39 Location: Valleys Time: 0500 First night dive! Yay! Depth: 16 metres Time: 48 minutes Temperature: 21 degrees - cold! I was very excited to be doing my first ever night dive. All the other (9) Advanced Open Water qualified volunteers ...Read More