AQUANAUTS GRENADA LAUNCHES ROOTS-TO-REEF RETREATS AT DEMA
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- Dec 29, 2025
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Updated: Dec 30, 2025
Aquanauts Grenada Launches “Roots-to-Reef Retreats” at DEMA Show 2025 A Holistic Approach to Sustainable Tourism: Connecting Community, Culture, and Conservation
ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA — November 8, 2025
A transformative new travel model, the Roots-to-Reef Retreat, is redefining sustainable tourism in the Caribbean. Developed by Aquanauts Grenada, the 2025 Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association’s Overall Winner for the Coral Reef Tourism Stewardship Award, the initiative bridges the connection between land and sea, showing how sustainability becomes meaningful action from the mountaintop to the reef.
Unlike a single eco-tour, Roots-to-Reef Retreats offer immersive, customizable, weeklong itineraries that guide participants through Grenada’s seven interconnected ecosystems in partnership with the small businesses, community groups, and culture bearers who care for them.
Participants have the opportunity to:
Dive or snorkel alongside conservation professionals
Join invasive Lionfish removal or reef monitoring
citizen science initiatives
Harvest and prepare Grenada’s national dish, Oil Down, with regenerative farmers
Hike to a waterfall while learning about local plants and wildlife
Learn herbal and Ital wellness practices from cultural leaders
Explore mangrove and seagrass restoration sites
These experiences combine to form fully customizable dive group travel and retreats, ranging from wellness and cultural immersion to scientific diving and conservation training.
“Roots-to-Reef is not a tour, it’s a framework,” says Tiffany Geer, Director of Aquanauts Grenada and Co-Founder of HydroSoul. “It demonstrates how island communities can build regenerative travel models that honor culture, restore ecosystems, and support local livelihoods.”
Grounded in the Rastafarian principle of Ital—living simply, naturally, and in harmony with the Earth—the Roots-to-Reef Program highlights how actions at the mountain top influence the mangroves, shape the reefs, and ultimately sustain community well-being and ocean health.
“Grenada is proving that tourism can positively benefit the local communities and island ecosystems,” says Geer. “When visitors choose Roots-to-Reef, they become part of regeneration and a sustainable future for Grenada.”
Group Travel That Gives Back
Proceeds from each Roots-to-Reef Retreat directly support the Aqua Rangers Youth Development Scholarship Program, empowering Caribbean youth to train as Scientific Divers and pursue blue economy careers in coral restoration, seagrass and mangrove monitoring, and community-led conservation.
About HydroSoul
HydroSoul is a Grenada-based nonprofit dedicated to roots-to-reef ecosystem awareness, regenerative living, and developing Caribbean scientific diving capacity through training, coral farming, and youth empowerment.
About Aquanauts Grenada
Aquanauts Grenada is the island’s premier dive operator, offering world-class wreck, reef, and conservation diving. With an unwavering commitment to safe, inclusive, and eco-forward experiences, Aquanauts continues to lead the region in sustainable marine tourism initiatives.
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