Ramsey Island - Environmental Policy

There is always a fine line between achieving a sustainable income and paying attention to our client and environment demands. We do though do our best and accept our responsibilities and here we detail our pledges.

Environmental Policy.

It would be incorrect to define other operators methods but we are proud to note that our polices exceed those adopted by an other company in the area.

We are establishing ourselves as a carbon neutral company whereby any carbon emissions produced by the vessels engines is offset by investment into sustainable green forests to absorb such emissions. On a busy day we consume up to 500 litres of fuel between our vessels and we strongly believe that this must be environmentally accountable.
The journey from our office in St Davids to St Justinians is 3 miles and clients drive themselves. The Pembrokeshire Coast National Park established a Park and Ride Bus in 2001 and we co-funded the project in order to reduce car usage. We will be continuing this. Funding. At our office we also promote Cycle Hire and should you wish to cycle hire we will offer this free of charge.
We are identifying a boat and walk service that will provide a days activity for clients enjoying both the water and the coast path without using their cars.
We take onboard Codes of Conduct established by organisations such as the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, Smithsonian Institute etc. We then apply our local knowledge to these and establish our own policy whereby the sanctity of the wildlife has a better need than obtrusive observation.
We have introduced computer-controlled engines with ultra low emissions, Year 2006 Compliant, that are also ultra quiet. All vessels run two engines simultaneously and to reduce underwater acoustic simple harmonics we ensure that they run at slightly separate speeds.
Our propellers are made of plastic so that in the event of contact with a cetacean they will cause much less impact damage by simply breaking.
We ensure that all our personnel have a strong local bias in that they are interested in protecting our maritime heritage. Most of us are graduates in marine disciplines or ex fishermen and all are from long established families. This is more important than it sounds as we have witnessed countless times skippers and so called guides pressurising wildlife for the sake of their clients and company:. Long term this does not work.
We limit our number of sailings to the offshore grounds as we see these as a refuge for cetaceans. We utilised many years of our own experience establishing the optimum offshore cetacean grounds and we guard carefully against releasing such detailed locations to deter unscrupulous operators.
All office paper and plastic waste is processed for re-cycling.

We are always here to listen to advice so if you think you could further our greener intentions then please feel free to contact us.