By Dive Training For nine days in late October, six members of FORCE BLUE worked alongside National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Coral Restoration Foundation (CRF) in coral...
By NOAA The team: A group of Special Operations veterans and coral scientists. The mission: Restoring thousands of coral damaged by recent hurricanes. It might seem like an impossible mission,...
By Defense Visual Information Distribution Service In the Caribbean, coastal communities rely on the natural barrier of coral reefs to protect themselves from the ever-growing threat of rising...
By FL Keys News With the help of several organization, including the Coral Restoration Foundation, thousands of small corals were rescued by being epoxied to the bottom or wedged into spurs,...
DeeperBlue.com While there’s more than one program that uses scuba diving as therapy for returned military veterans, there’s only one nonprofit that provides mission-based therapy for former...
By FL Keys News The Coral Restoration Foundation (CRF) and members of a dive team made up of former special forces operators are working this week on vital National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
By FL Keys News The unit, Force Blue Team One, was on its first deployment to aid in coral reef conservation efforts in the Cayman...
By Upworthy.com Force Blue is unlike any veteran rehabilitative program in the world. And it all started with a dive. In 2015, Jim Ritterhoff noticed that his friend, former combat diver Rudy...
By MISSIONBLUE™ I recently had the honor of meeting U.S RECON Marine Sergeant Rudy Reyes who shared his story about being a former combat diver who’s now on a mission to help protect and restore...
By Eco Chic Cayman I had the honor of meeting U.S RECON Marine Sergeant Rudy Reyes and listening to him share his story about his experience as a former combat diver and now a veteran on a...
By Orange County Register “To keep that edge — very few can do it. War is a young man’s game. A lot of brothers are struggling because there’s an emptiness when they get out. We can’t...
By PADI FORCE BLUE is a nonprofit organization that provides a new mission for former combat divers and Special Operation Force (SOF) veterans: healing endangered coral reefs. Its three...