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Open Ocean Open Ocean was original established in 2010 at Dahab in the Sinai, opening a second centre in El Quseir, on mainland Egypt during 2012. Unfortunately, due to the crisis caused by the world pandemic, the Dahab operation is no longer operational. At El Quseir Field Station based on the African coast, there are opportunities to monitor and study fringing reefs, sea grass meadows, mangroves, fossil reefs and within these different environments there are a multitude of endemic species and microcosms of typical Red Sea activities.
El Quseir RED SEA
EL QUSEIR El Quseir is a small coastal city located on the edge of the Eastern Desert in south east Egypt approximately 140 km south of Hurghada. The Open Ocean Field Station is surrounded by a natural belt of mountains to the rear and the Red Sea shore to the fore, it is sited inside the multi award winning.
With a range of accommodation on site, Open Ocean is the perfect field station for every group.
Our Missions  The work and objectives of the Open Ocean can be represented by four missions: Mission 1: Education First & foremost in all conservation efforts is to provide information to the general populous about what the problems are, what the affect will be and how they can help to resolve the issues. Open Ocean provide abundant information and distribute it as widely as possible to any interested party. Be it through fun days, school visits, marine conservation weeks or direct campaigning education. Mission 2: Research To be able to provide education on any subject there is a fundamental need to understand the subject as thoroughly as possible. This is only possible with extensive research into the topic. Open Ocean are not the academic power behind this research rather they provide the front line service to go out and obtain raw data which is then made available as open source to any interested party. Mission 3: Citizen Science Citizen Science is simply public involvement in the discovery of new scientific knowledge, it bridges a gap between researchers and the general public and can involve anyone. Open Ocean have developed multiple citizen science projects in our target area of the Red Sea and engage the non-scientific community in capturing raw data for research activities and conservation goals. Mission 4: Conservation The objective of our Education, Research and Citizen Science programmes is to be able to make a difference on the front line environmental conservation of the Red Sea. Open Ocean are continuously taking actions in this area by organising and actioning beach clean ups and such like with the local communities. The work continues daily and every little helps.

 

Open Ocean @ Roots Red Sea, kilo 14 safaga Road, El Quseir, red Sea, Egypt info@openoceanproject.org