
EAST COAST UNDERWATER DIVE CLEAN-UPS & BEACH CLEAN-UP
WHEN: Saturday 11th November 2023
WHERE: Dibba, Fujairah – Divers will be told which Dive Centre they are registered with, and non-divers will be given the beach location.
TIME: 8:30am-3pm
PROVIDED: Tank and weights are included for divers. All other diving equipment required, must be rented by the diver with the dive centre you are registered with for the clean-up.
RULES: Must be an EDA Member and registered to attend.
BRING: Your refillable water bottles, plastic water bottles will not be available.
DIVERS’ SCHEDULE
8:30 – Divers arrive & register at their designated dive centre in Dibba, Fujairah.
8:45 – Equipment set-up and dive briefing.
9:00 – Boats head out to their designated dive sites.
10:30 – Dives End; divers dismantle equipment and return tanks and weights back to respected dive centres.
11:30 – Rubbish counting and weighing begins to fill out the ICC forms.
12:30 – Everyone heads to the Radisson Blu for the lunch and presentations.
13:00 – Lunch Buffet open.
14:00 – Presentations and Group Photos.
BEACH PARTICIPANTS’ SCHEDULE
8:30 – Participants arrive at designated beach for briefing, and collect bags and gloves.
9:00 – Start the clean-up.
11:30 – Teams work together to fill in ICC card information on overall litter collected (all litter is piled onto tarpaulin mat for counting, and final bags are weighed).
12:30 – Everyone heads to the Radisson Blu for the lunch and presentations.
13:00 – Lunch Buffet open.
14:00 – Presentations and Group Photos.
*If you take photos, please share them with us for the upcoming December magazine issue and our social media platforms. Email them to magazine@emiratesdiving.com as high resolution jpegs so we can cover all participation with all the clean-up results.
CLEANUP ARABIA’S STORY
Emirates Diving Association (EDA) has been running Cleanup Arabia since its inception in 1995, a voluntary campaign that annually cleans-up the UAE’s dive sites and beaches with EDA Members and Partners working together, side by side. Cleanup Arabia is part of the Clean Up The World Programme that is promoted and managed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the International Coastal Cleanup by the Ocean Conservancy which is our data submission platform.
The campaign is made up of EDA members and stakeholders that participate in dive site and beach clean-ups which help shape their consciousness concerning marine debris and saying no to single-use plastics. Inspiring change to make a difference together!
FACTS
REGISTER BY EMAIL TO LAYLA AT: projects@emiratesdiving.com
Please provide us with the following information to register your place at Cleanup Arabia 2023:
We’ll confirm your registration soon!
We have created a sustainable T-shirt brand design and only new CUA participants will receive a T-shirt for all future Cleanup Arabia events. Participants who were part of CUA 2018 and 2019, are to REUSE their T-shirts for future events.
All participants are to bring their own REUSABLE water bottles to refill at the water stations as part of our sustainable responsibilities.