Press & Partners

Voices, coverage and collaborators behind the reefs.

Selected press, research and destination partners, and testimonials from the sponsors, scientists, teachers and travelers who have built Living Story Reefs with us.

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19 matches

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5 items

Coastal Review

Feature

The reef as a story you can swim through

Sea Sirens Design is quietly redefining what a destination reef can look like — sculpture as habitat, and habitat as public narrative.

Coastal Review · Jun 14, 2024Archived — available on request

Dive Magazine

Feature

Great Stirrup Cay's new siren garden draws snorkelers year-round

Nine hand-cast figures, one growing reef, and a snorkel route that reads as a narrative sequence from shore.

Dive Magazine · Nov 2, 2024Archived — available on request

Cruise Industry News

Trade

Private islands turn to art-led marine restoration

Operators are pairing reef-safe sculpture with guest programming — Sea Sirens Design cited as a category leader.

Cruise Industry News · Feb 20, 2025Archived — available on request

Florida Keys Weekly

Print

The Eco-Bug is small, strange, and doing serious reef work

A whimsical habitat sculpture logs six times the fish abundance of adjacent bare sand at 14 months.

Florida Keys Weekly · Sep 8, 2023Archived — available on request

Blue Habitat Podcast

Podcast

Ep. 47 — Art that becomes reef, with Sea Sirens Design

A conversation on story-first restoration, permitting, and why memorable form drives repeat visitation.

Blue Habitat Podcast · Apr 11, 2025Archived — available on request

Partners & collaborators

8 partners

Cruise & Tourism

  • Great Stirrup Cay

    Habitat host — sculpture garden site

    Partner since 2024

  • Bahamas Tourism Board

    Destination alignment

Resorts

  • Island Reef Resort

    Guest programming host

Research & Education

  • Keys Marine Lab

    Monitoring & recruitment science

    Partner since 2023

  • Coral Restoration Alliance

    Species selection & outplanting

  • Florida Sea Grant

    Curriculum & extension partner

  • Monroe County Schools

    STEAM Reef Lab classrooms

Civic & Cultural

  • Reef Relief

    Community stewardship

Testimonials

6 quotes

The siren garden gave our island a signature underwater experience guests plan return trips around. It's the rare amenity that keeps getting better every season.

Rhea Alcott

Director of Destination Experience, Great Stirrup Cay

Dec 5, 2024 · great stirrup cay
Sea Sirens builds substrate the way a marine biologist would if they were also a sculptor. The recruitment data on the Eco-Bug speaks for itself.

Dr. Marcus Wren

Research Director, Keys Marine Lab

Aug 19, 2024 · eco bug
My students stopped asking when the field trip was and started asking when the next monitoring dive was. The reef became their syllabus.

Alicia Perez

Marine Science Teacher, Monroe County Schools

Jan 22, 2025
Commissioning a sculpture that lives in the ocean instead of a warehouse changed how our family thinks about philanthropy. It's a piece we visit, not just own.

The Hollister Family

Founding Sponsors, Siren Garden Phase II, Private collectors

Oct 30, 2024 · siren garden
Story-led reefs are the future of coastal tourism. Sea Sirens Design is one of the few studios delivering the art, the science and the guest experience as one program.

Nadine St. Clair

Senior Advisor, Sustainable Tourism, Bahamas Tourism Board

Mar 14, 2025
Reef-safe, guest-ready, and press-ready — the Sea Sirens team delivered on all three. Our snorkel program has never been stronger.

Captain James Whitmore

VP, Shore Operations, Private Island Cruise Group

May 6, 2025 · great stirrup cay