During our senior service project week I worked with the CORE Foundation. Throughout the week I learned about web design and organization. We got to interact with dive professionals at different dive shops around the island, receiving feedback, positive and some negative from the lionfish project. This week at CORE I learned how to help and encourage others to help keep the ocean clean. -Natasha

Do you or your students want to volunteer with CORE? Just email us for more info!

The CORE Foundation joined forces with crew of Explorer of the Seas this weekend to clean up French Town! Thanks to support from The Explorer of the Seas, Forever Flowers, Hook Line & Sinker, and VIWMA French Town got a deep clean Saturday morning with over 20 volunteers collecting trash from the roadside, parking lots, and water's edge. If you missed out stay tuned, Earth Day is just next month!

Our brave boys in rubber boots collecting trash!

Volunteers work together to get trash out of the "canal".

The iconic French Town view with a dash of VI Pride!

During the cleanup passers-by stopped to congratulate us on our efforts and asked how to help.

support page

You what else is great about cleanups, the after parties! Huge thanks to Bolongo!

Check out the data on all the lionfish CORE divers removed from our waters during 2013!

Feel like there should be entries where there aren't? Maybe you're not submitting data! Visit THIS PAGE to submit your lionfish removals so we can get an even better view of what's going on!

Responders continue to get in the water and take care of the lionfish!

Great stomach contents shot by Snorkel STJ!

The CORE Foundation would like to send  HUGE thank you to everyone who has supported us this year and helped to make it great! We are looking forward to 2014 and the success it will bring, all thanks to you!

Join us at one of the public forums hosted by The Nature Conservancy this week.

Join us at the cleanup! Email to get a spot on the boat!

Have you joined in on any of the International Coastal Cleanup fun?! We're two weeks in and CORE is proud to have been represented at all cleanups! Join us next week at Water Bay and again on October 12th at Fortuna Bay for CORE's official cleanup! Check the home page or facebook for details!

Check out our Hefty dive! Thanks to our friends at The Frapper we were able to use this technique to remove two juvenile lionfish off the reef to use for educational purposes. Keep an ear to the ground to find out about future official CORE sponsored dives for our certified responders. They're great fun and you might end up in a video like this one!

Get Trained! Training Sessions for Caribbean Lionfish Response Program!
Benefits include: Free dives, access to restricted beaches, CORE events, and feeling good about helping the reefs!

Learn about proper handling of lion fish.

If you have been waiting for the next opportunity to become an official CORE Response Diver now is your chance! We will be holding two training sessions in September to accommodate everyone's schedules. Help do your part and remove invasive fish from our ecosystem.

Monday, September 2nd - 6:30PM @ Hull Bay Hideaway Add to Calendar Thursday, September 5th - 6:30 @ Island Time Pizza Add to Calendar