BIMINI, THE BAHAMAS— AUGUST 25, 2011—The tiny island of Bimini, the most western of the 700 islands that comprise The Bahamas archipelago and only 50 miles from the southeast coast of Florida, has …
Guy Harvey Outpost ‘Share YOUR Adventure’ Photo Contest FAQs
4 Sep 201312:08 PM
HOW TO ENTER:
- Enter your photos online at www.outpostphotocontest.com, or simply upload your photos to Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter using hashtag #OutpostPics.
- There is no limit on how many photos you can enter, so enter as many times as you like to increase your chances of winning.
HOW PHOTOS ARE JUDGED:
- A panel of judges will select a winner on a weekly and monthly basis, as well as a Grand Prize winner at the end of October.
- Judges will put an emphasis on photos that emphasize ADVENTURE TRAVEL!
- Vote for your favorite photos! Although the final decision is up to the judges, photos with the most votes will be given special consideration. However, beginning Sept. 1, 2013, you can only vote one time per day.
- Guy Harvey Outpost and its partners practice Sustainable Fishing and Sustainable Tourism. Please remember this when taking your photos. Photos that do not represent these ideals will be excluded from the contest.
ANNOUNCING WINNERS:
- All winning photos will be announced on the Guy Harvey Outpost Facebook Page
- Weekly winners will be announced each Thursday
- Monthly winners will be announced by the 3rd of the following month
- The first quarterly Grand Prize winner will be announced November 5th. All entrants submitted prior to 12:00AM on November 1 will be eligible to win.
For additional rules, please visit the contest web site.
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![](mailto:?subject=Neal Watson to Lead Festivities Celebrating 50th Anniversary of Key Largo’s Pennekamp St Park&body=<a title="www.nealwatson.com" href="http://www.nealwatson.com" target="_blank">Neal Watson</a>, dive legend and operator of <a title="Dive Bimini's web page" href="http://www.biggameclubbimini.com/dive-bimini.htm" target="_blank">Dive Bimini, a Guy Harvey Outpost Dive Center</a>, will head the judging team for Key Largo's first King and Queen of the Reef. A costume party and gala kicks-off celebrations at 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 4, at <a title="Buzzard's Roost web site" href="http://www.buzzardsroostkeylargo.com/" target="_blank">Buzzards Roost</a>.
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The event is part of the Key Largo Chamber's observance of the 50th Anniversary for <a title="PSP web site" href="http://www.floridastateparks.org/pennekamp/" target="_blank">Pennekamp State Park</a>.
Joining Watson on the judges' stand will be <a title="Capt. Slate's Atlantis Dive Center web site" href="http://www.captainslate.com/" target="_blank">Spencer Slate</a>, <a title="Amy Slate's Amoray Dive Resort" href="http://www.amoray.com/" target="_blank">Amy Slate</a> and <a title="CRF web site" href="http://www.coralrestoration.org/CRF/index.php" target="_blank">Kara Nedimyer of the Coral Restoration Foundation</a>.
Entry to the contest is free and participants will be judged in two categories for costume and a 50-word essay on 'Why they feel worthy to qualify for this exalted position,' according to event coordinator Sue Finney.
The King of the Reef will be crowned King Poseidon, God of the Seas and the Queen of the Reef, Her Highness Amphitrite Goddess of the Seas. Prize packages for the winners will include VIP tickets to join Watson aboard the Grand Marshall Boat of the <a title="Key Largo's Holiday Boat Parade web site" href="http://www.keylargoboatparade.com/" target="_blank">Holiday Boat Parade</a>, which takes place the following Saturday, Dec. 11.
The Buzzards Roost gala begins at 6 p.m. with a champagne reception followed by a four-course dinner. Tickets cost $55 per person.
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![](mailto:?subject=Bimini Big Game Club’s New Year’s Three Peat Package Includes Free Room and Free Airfare&body=Get your New Year's Game On at the legendary <a title="BBGC web site" href="http://www.biggameclubbimini.com" target="_blank">Bimini Big Game Club</a>. Get yourself and your friends to our "New Years party at the end of the world" in the original party town, Alice Town.
Got plans? Change them!! Bring the party with you! Have we got an offer for you! We call it the New Years Three Peat Package, because we love those Miami Heat...
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Book three rooms for a minimum of four nights, checking in anytime between Christmas and New Year Eve, and we'll give you one of the rooms free! And, there's more! There's also 2-for-1 airfare...now, getting to Bimini is as cheap as a drive to Key West!
Take charge. Get your friends off the couch. Get your Game On...at the Big Game Club. Guaranteed more fun and less money than staying at home stateside, and no risk of a late night run in with the law!
Join us New Year's Eve for the <a title="New Year’s Boat Parade & Pool Party, Bimini Style!" href="http://guyharveyoutpostnews.com/2010/12/09/new-years-boat-parade-pool-party-bimini-style/" target="_blank">1st Annual Bimini Boat Parade and Pool Party</a>. Cruise the harbor with the Scuba Radio Mermaids on our 60' twin deck party machione, <a title="The Big Game Club’s Name That Dive Boat Competition is Over! It’s…Bimini Blue!" href="http://guyharveyoutpostnews.com/2010/10/15/the-big-game-club%e2%80%99s-name-that-dive-boat-competition-is-over-it%e2%80%99s-bimini-blue/" target="_blank">M/V Bimini Blue</a>. Then, join us poolside for live music by Mango Man, and drink specials till midnight when we ring in the New Year.
On New Years Day, its Rum Bloody Marys and football - all the games, all day long.
For all the details and to book your group's Ultimate New Year's Three Peat Package, call the Big Game Club today at 800-867-4764. https://guyharveyoutpostblog.com/bimini-big-game-clubs-new-years-three-peat-package-includes-free-room-and-free-airfare/){kind=link}
; 20 makos (yellow); seven oceanic whitetips (pink); and one dusky, four hammerheads and a sixgill (white and barely visible off Boca Grande, FL and Bermuda).
“Pretty impressive. A huge part of the ocean,” noted Wetherbee of the sharks’ movements.
Satellite tags, which cost upwards of $4,000 apiece, are technology’s most precise method of monitoring the animals’ movements minute to minute. Funded by the non-profit Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation, the transmitters are affixed to the sharks’ dorsal fin, sending their locations to a satellite that beams the information to the researchers’ computers. Wetherbee then plots that information on Google Maps.
What this worldwide splash of color represents is a blueprint for protecting sharks from habitat loss and overfishing. And the tracking data has turned a few shark theories on their heads.
According to Wetherbee, tiger sharks– previously believed to be a coastal species– are nothing of the kind. The data shows they spend half their time in the open ocean thousands of miles from shore, but in winter show a snowbird-like affinity for coral reefs in the Caribbean and Bahamas. One tiger nicknamed Harry Lindo covered 27,000 miles– the longest distance ever tracked for the species.
Mako sharks seem to stick to the open ocean– cruising the edge of the Continental Shelf off the U.S. east coast then making long trips north to New England and Canada.
The oceanic whitetips tend to wander around aimlessly, though whatever they’re doing isn’t aimless to them– sort of like a bee flying over fields and alighting on several flowers in one field but totally ignoring those in another.
The makos and whitetips were named competitors in the Great Shark Race of 2015 created by the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation and Research Institute to encourage businesses and individuals to sponsor satellite tags. The shark covering the greatest distance in six months– a shortfin mako named Ebenezer that swam 7,387 miles–was declared the winner. Ebenezer– named by Ebenezer Thomas Primary School in Tortola, British Virgin Islands– was sponsored by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin United. It was tagged off Ocean City, Md. on May 27, made it to Newfoundland in the allotted time, and is still transmitting.
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Unlike those free-swimming makos and whitetips, Wetherbee noted that hammerheads tend to stick to coastlines in the U.S. and avoid long-distance travel. Sixgills, he said, stay in deep water and don’t go very far while duskys seem attached to certain sites, but still may travel a few hundred miles.
“There are sharks without a country, moving through 10 to 15 different countries,” Wetherbee said. “They are all over the place.”
The research has important implications for shark management: knowing what countries’ waters the sharks use suggests who is responsible for managing that population and where the animals are most likely to be harvested by fishers.
“Shark populations have been overfished quite a bit. Managing these populations is going to take international cooperation,” Wetherbee said.
Mako sharks, while not classified as overfished, could still be in trouble as they are heavily targeted by commercial longliners and recreational anglers in the U.S. and elsewhere.
“Makos are in a lot of areas with tuna and swordfish,” Wetherbee said. “Everybody is after these makos because they are good to eat.”
Indeed, 13 of the 49 makos tagged by the GHRI scientists over the past four years have been caught and killed by commercial fishers. The tiger sharks, fortunately, escaped those gauntlets.
Wetherbee, Harvey and Shivji plan more shark-tagging expeditions in 2016, hoping to fit another 40 to 50 animals with satellite transmitters.
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Sue Cocking chronicles the Guy Harvey Outpost travel and adventure experience in regular blog posts on GuyHarveyOutpostNews.com/. For 21 years, Cocking covered the full spectrum of outdoors adventure opportunities in South Florida and beyond for the Miami Herald, including fishing, diving, hunting, paddling camping, sailing and powerboat racing. She is a certified scuba diver and holder of an IGFA women’s world fly fishing record for a 29-pound permit.
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