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Videos/Photos: Start Of ‘Tour De Turtles Race’
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

This morning marked the official start of the race with one turtle being released at Clearwater Beach in St David’s.


Turtles to be released and tracked
Friday, August 10, 2012

At least five green sea turtles with attached satellite transmitters are being released from Clearwater Beach next week.


Tour de Turtles Bermuda: ‘Race On The Rock’
Thursday, August 09, 2012

“Tour de Turtles Bermuda: Race On The Rock” will kick off next week and will see green turtles fitted with GPS satellite transmitters to enable researchers to track their every movement as they “race” across the seas.


Volunteers clean up BAMZ
Thursday, July 26, 2012

​Some 70 students and volunteers from eleven companies participated in The Centre on Philanthropy’s Community Day.


Saving our 'floating golden rainforest' at a local level
Friday, July 13, 2012

FRIDAY, JUNE 13: The Bermuda Alliance for Sargasso Sea formed last June with the intention of supporting a government led plan to protect the Sargasso Sea and the multitude of species that live within it. The Bermuda Sun sat down with four of the BASS member charities to discuss their mission so far.



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‘Ocean Vet’ captures Burnie’s spirit
Royal Gazette
Tuesday, September 08, 2015

By Sarah Lagan
Published Sep 8, 2015 at 8:00 am (Updated Sep 8, 2015 at 8:29 am)

The Ocean Vet series due to hit some of the world’s top networks next year is “just the beginning” according to the show’s Choy Aming.

Mr Aming was speaking at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute where he and his team screened excerpts from the first seven episodes.

It was the first time Mr Aming had made a public speech on Ocean Vet since his close friend and the show’s central character, Neil Burnie, died in free diving accident last November.

Mr Aming told a packed audience: “It looks as if our journey will continue after Ocean Vet. We are going to take the legacy that Neil started on to a whole other level and we are embarking on an even more ambitious project.

“It is in the early stages but it looks even bigger than the first series and will involve some of the most famous people in and on the ocean as well as the most cutting edge technology on the planet.

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Continuing the Burnie legacy: Choy Aming, far left, and the Ocean Vet team at the Bermuda Underwater
Exploration Institute. Mr Aming spoke of hopes to take Neil Burnie’s legacy to a new level?
(Photograph by Weldon Wade)

“It is going to have some international elements to it but it is going to be based in Bermuda. The piece of technology that we are going to be using once we get it here it is not the type of thing you can move around easily. We can’t really say more than that.”

The project will involve gassProductions — the production company that put together the series and will have it distributed to the likes of National Geographic and The Discovery Channel.

Introducing the screenings last Thursday evening, Mr Aming first tackled the “elephant in the room”, that of Dr Burnie’s tragic death.

He said: “Obviously, the personal loss of Neil was the hardest part but it seemed particularly difficult because we were all on the home stretch of an intertwined dream.

“We had just completed the biggest project that any of us had ever attempted and we successfully pulled it off.

“After a mourning period, and what I thought was the best funeral ever, we regrouped and pushed on to get the project done. We were left with hours of Neil at his absolute best doing what he loved for the world to see.

“After several chats with the guys we knew we were no longer making a TV series but the incredible legacy of our friend. I think this was the best way to capture Neil in his true spirit to keep his passion alive and use it to inspire the world.”