As a growing web of groups collaborating to survey in the north west, The Blue Hope Alliance is collecting together our survey video footage to create a pool of underwater footage stored for non commercial community use. We hope this will become a valuable asset for future generations. Scientists, universities, fishermen, school children, artists and filmmakers, citizen science ambassadors will be able to be inspired by what the area was like, and glimpse the restoration process as it happens.

All groups who share our aims are invited to join us to collect and share our citizen science data sets and use the footage to inspire others.

Surveys also supply evidence. Our information will be reported to national and international data bases as open source information. Whilst the commercial rights are retained by the diver-cameramen themselves. The community benefits from access to the survey footage for non-commercial use such as local education, science projects or film or art with non commercial objectives – hopefully helping document impacts of climate, fishing, farming, acidification, and ocean plastic over time.

In addition to the data helping to build a picture of what is going on under the veil of water, the survey footage has contributed to many films as well as storytelling. Our films and photos on social media or at local screenings help encourage many others to join the journey of discovery beneath the waves. People protect what they love. We share what we love in the hope others will also join us in exploring this amazing invisible world.