I stayed at SORCE for 4 weeks and it was an amazing experience. Our week was structured with 2 (sometimes 3) dives a day from tuesday to saturday with a fun dive on sunday. Everything was really well organized, all the staff are lovely and the loction is amazing. You‘re right next to the beach with hardly anyone else around. The accomodation was really cozy and very clean. Our activities were very varied. Apart from the diving, we had some lectures which for example educated us about coral, how to identify fish and the importance of what SORCE is doing. But we also planted mangroves and collected plastic on the beach. You will definately not get bored! The same with the dives, they varied throughout the week. From nursery maintenance at the beginning of each week, to fish ID dives, debris dives and more. We also had movie/ documentary nights, game nights (I played a lot of cards and darts) and bonfire nights! Apart from the amazing dives, I will always remember the mangrove planting competitions, the laughs we had whilst building MARS blocks and messing around during the surface intervals. I wish I could have stayed longer and will definately try to come back!
What was your funniest moment?
One of my funniest moments/ highlights (there were many) was my first debris dive. I got to carry the debris bag. We collected so much debris that it started to get really heavy. One of the volunteers just kept bringing more and more! I just remember trying to do the safety stop whilst holding the bag with another volunteer and struggling. We had a big laugh about it afterwards and it was a lot of fun.
