Today we're diving off Freedom Beach ..Crystal Dive has 22 volunteers out on their boat amongst a number of other dive schools. On the boat we're split into small groups of 3/4 divers, given bags to collect rubbish with a pair of scissors if needed to cut any netting tangled up and and then sent off into different directions to hunt for rubbish.
You'll be amazed at what you find. Batteries, hair & toothbrushes, clothes, fan belts, big ole biscuit tins, rope and loads of netting. As bags are filled, either one or all of the divers within that group would ascend and call over the longtail boat to collect the bag and empty it for us and then we'd drop back down to collect more.
My biggest find was around 20 or so fanbelts ..I just dont understand why people throw rubbish into the sea. I suppose they think what the eye doesn't see, doesn't hurt....
Crystal boat was responsible for carrying all the rubbish back to the pier so that we could sort through it in order to get an idea who or what was the biggest offender and possibly take steps into prevention.
Later on we went to 'Dirty Nellys' for a drink, watch the new Open Water students video and then headed back down to Crystal bar where a 'Snorkel Test' was taking place for the 5 newly qualified Dive Masters.
If you don't remember what this entails, then check out post of Friday, 3 April 2009
As the mayhem settled and people dispersed, we bumped into Tom (fellow instructor) and his friend Frederica, who's visiting from France. We chatted for a couple of beers and then headed off home stopping on the way to grab a takeaway as we were starving.
2 comments:
I have no time for people that throw such stuff into the ocean. Nice job both of you.
Completely agree with you bruv... In fact, I was working on a project for a friend before we left the UK, on "Plastic Oceans"...
You would not believe the state of the sea... even in non populated areas...
Sad as it is... Not everyone is doing bad... some are doing good :-)
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