We had an amazing underwater clean-up event to mark the UAE National Environment day at D-Marin Marsa Al Arab on Saturday the 7th of February. Our divers brought up a whopping 807.6kg of waste from our marine environment. That is a record for a single dive site clean-up!
Our divers headed to the opposite side of the marina on this mission. This clean-up’s most unusual items were a lorry tyre weighing 270kg, a metal chain weighing 115kg, another trolley, a large fibreglass storage box, a pillow, 4 screw drivers, and 3 towels. From our count, beverage cans (90) surpassed the number of drink containers in this sweep, but were followed closely by plastic bags (89), plastic cups (71), and plastic bottles (67). There are still plenty of construction materials being found, and we still have more to do when we come back to do the third clean-up next year.
We thank our partner D-Marin Middle East for hosting this event and for their team’s help and support, Imdaad LLC our waste management partner for collecting and properly disposing of all the rubbish, the Dubai Voluntary Diving Team for the extra support with logistics (without them we would never have surfaced the 270kg tyre), and a huge thank you to our Strategic Partner DP World who enable us to hold all of these events throughout the year. Thank you also to Al Boom Diving for the well organised kit setup.
Well done to our 36 divers who worked at cleaning up our marine environment, and to our 14 surface supporters for being ready to help remove all that waste. Well done teams!
📷 First Group Photo by D-Marin
📷 Ally Landes
