A Clean Sweep

 

What a Rubbish dive!

There was just so much debris on our first dive that we decided that we couldn’t leave it there any longer and that we just had to go back and collect it all.

The next dive we went bag in hand ready to collect every bit of rubbish and debris that we could find. The four of us set out to what we have nick named Beer Can Alley. I think you can guess why. See for yourself…

This was just the tip of the, no, this was more like just the ring pull on the beer can.

We got busy collecting all the rubbish, beer can after beer can, a few glass bottles too, making sure that nothing had made itself at home inside.

Amongst the more unusual items that we recovered there was: some fishing line, rope, a ladies’ hygienic product (not so sure she’s a lady as she dumped it in the ocean!) and what initially looked like a plastic propellor but turned out to be a broom head, making it a clean sweep!

 

Having successfully made a small difference to help save our oceans and despite all the rubbish and debris found on the dive, we also enjoyed some amazing marine life on our way back into shore.

We were lucky enough to spot this wonderful Octopus nestled in the rocks. Initially, his head was clear of the rocks and as we approached he gracefully slide back under his rocky hideout home.

 

As you can see, we ended up with a really full bag and I’m sure we’ll be back to keep on sweeping clean!

 

A Big Thank You to Angela, Barry and Bernd for being part of the solution on this rubbish debris dive.

Ocean Clean Up Dive – Ocean Rescue

  

At Island Watersports Lanzarote we take our responsibility to the enviroment very seriously and carry out Ocean Rescue, clean up dives every few months. We do our best to keep the beautiful Atlantic Ocean around Lanzarote as clear of rubbish and plastic as possible. Scuba diving in Lanzarote is a very popular sport and the area around Puerto Del Carmen boasts some of the best dive sites on the island.

Our last Ocean clean up dive of the year was a great success. We targeted the area of Black Beach in Puerto Del Carmen where we collected 5 full bags of plastic, drink cans and other debris from along the harbour wall, over the arena to the drop off.

During the dive our divers took great care to ensure that no sea life was actually living in the cans and bottles we removed, they did have to relocate a few baby octopus.

Check out our facebook page for all the great pictures (full album on flickr) and keep following us  for details of our  next Ocean Clean Up dive, all certified divers are welcome to join us and we supply tanks and weights for FREE.

Finally, a huge thank you our wonderful scuba diving volunteers, Ocean Heroes, John, Ailsa, Ian, Michael and Iain, a fantastic job guys, well done!