After finishing a EFR (Emergency First Response) course yesterday and meeting Si off the boat, I finally had chance to collect my new mountain bike, which was kindly put together by Tim, one of the videographers at Deep Down.
With new lights and only a couple of adjustments I set off home. Boy, for only having a few weeks off from cycling, the ride home killed me :-D It’s so nice to have a decent bike to ride. No excuses for me now, not to go cycling ;-D (Pics to follow, when the rain stops!!)
So today was the ‘Dive Site Clean Up’ ...basically a dive picking up rubbish that’s in the sea. The plan was to have ‘Crystal 2’ (Crystal’s medium size boat) but Si received a message first thing, saying that it had broken down. What a pain! As we were supposed to be meeting other dive schools/boats south of the island and collect all the rubbish collected and bring it all back to the pier but we had to cancel. Instead we, all 16 volunteers, managed to squeeze onto the course boat ‘Crystal 3’ at very short notice and do a clean up at ‘Twin Peaks’ ...not a great deal of rubbish collected but that’s a good sign.
On our 2nd dive, we got everyone to do ‘Coral Watch’ as well, which in short, is measuring the darkest, lightest part of the coral, whether it be boulder, branching, plate or sort coral (apart from the tips, as that’s new growth) and recording it on a slate which we then take and enter online global database.
All in all, the day was success and everyone enjoyed their dives.
It was so nice to have so many volunteers and hopefully if they’re out diving again, they just might pick that plastic bag/bottle and stick it in their pocket or, decline a plastic bag from 7-Eleven.
x
Jenny
2 comments:
Nice work - too much cycling and you'll have thighs like Fatima Whitbread!
At least she won't have a face like Fatima's!!! YUCK!!
x
SD
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