This was my first working conservation trip and it was exceptional. Well organized, educational, interactive, some long days, great evenings, hard work, fun, and lots of camaraderie with my fellow citizen conservationist. If you are thinking about doing it...do it! You won't regret it.

An awesome adventure with Fins Attached and all the people that joined this trip... We were able to experience all that the trip was focused on - nesting turtle on the night walk, re-locating/burying 500+ Turtle eggs, releasing turtle 34 hatchlings into the ocean, assisting with repairs to the enclosure to protect the hatchlings from birds, coral restoration education sessions, dive session to maintain the coral nursery, and then another to actual outplant from the nursery to the reef. Our Team leader, Alex, worked with the extended team to ensure that we got these opportunities as we cannot predict what mother nature's timing is. We also did some additional site seeing when we had some down time. This will be an adventure to remember... Thank you to Alex and the Fins Attached team that helped organize and get everything planned - your heart for conservation, the turtles, sharks and rays is visible and is helping us to not only save them individually as a species, but helping to save the oceans.

This was my second time taking this trip, and it was amazing! I cannot recommend this trip highly enough for anyone interested in protecting the oceans.

The hotel and staff are amazing, Im giving it a low score because we didn’t do any shark research as stated in the information package. We had the opportunity to do 4 pleasure dives, but the commute was so long and I didn’t think my gear would dry in time to fly , so I missed the last day of diving. Maybe if the last 2 days became the first 2 days, that would make it easier. I enjoyed the Coral Restoration and the Turtles, I totally understand that Turtles are nature and they come when they want, we didn’t see any, disappointed but understand. Also if the Coral Restoration diving part was better explained I might not of got sick, bad viz and bad surge, means I need lots of sickness medication.

Ocean was a little rough, Crew was the best on the Solmar V and we saw more animals than we expected during the dives, overall, it was an excellent trip.