Project Baseline is a call to action for the most important environmental cause of our time: to protect and sustain the world's rapidly diminishing fresh and marine ecosystems, and the treasures contained within them.
Project Baseline's goal is to foreground the critical condition of our most valuable natural and cultural underwater resources by developing and sustaining a record that charts underwater conditions over time. Participating in Project Baseline is a way for all divers of all levels to validate their training, create and grow local communities, and preserve the underwater world.
Prestonhill
Public Project1
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August 23 2015
As a vehicle for establishing an active and closely knit GUE community, our team will provide a local opportunity to begin recording environmental conditions at an area that is extremely liable to pollution. It is the intention of our team to recruit and train divers in undertaking basic scientific research, develop team protocols and skills for underwater environmental characterization. - UPDATE - No longer a active team.
Prestonhill
56.02733933333334-3.385291
Public Project
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4
August 23 2015
Nestled on the northern shore of the Firth of Forth, with its' own bay is Inverkeithing. Mines in the Kingdom of Fife were typically coal mines, but Prestonhill Quarry is slightly different. Mining began in the early 19th century for a current unknown ore. The ore was excavated and transported on conveyors, some of the structure still exists adjacent to the Fife Coastal Path heading out into the Firth of Forth, to waiting transport vessels where it would be moved for processing, refinement and eventual sale. Since the mining stopped, the quarry has slowly filled with rain over the years and is now an ideal training site for new scuba divers. An entire eco-system has developed at the quarry with Perch, Pike, frogs and toads now live and breed in the quarry. PB: Prestonhill is attempting to characterise the quarry, to understand the wildlife and fauna and more importantly, to educate the local community on how they too can enjoy the quarry safely.