MY OCEAN!

As scuba divers many of you may know how frustrating it may be to witness damage and harm being done to our oceans. How many times did you come across debris and litter during a dive? Did this upset you? Did it make you want to take action? Well now you can!

MyOcean is an online eco-network developed by Project AWARE to make it easier for us to all work together towards ocean protection. The network provides a platform where one can find events and activities taking place in his/her area. The global movement for ocean protection is people-powered and YOU can help make a difference!

The network is very user friendly and is a great way to get connected with other passionate scuba divers. Not only can you search for events taking place close by, but you can also start up action plans, create your own conservation events and even track and report data! You do not have to travel the world to help - just sign up at www.projectaware.org/welcome-my-ocean and get involved!

Create your own profile and help kick start solutions for the ocean today... and remember, even one person can make an impact!

Dive Against Debris - Let's Do It!

On the 9th of May 2015, World Record Diving Malta teamed up with Let's Do it Malta as part of the Let's Do it Mediterranean clean-up campaign. The vision of Let's Do it is to have a clean world, and to do so, the organisers encourage citizens in each country to take action, once a year, all together, and be part of their national clean-up, all in one day! ... and so, that is exactly what we did! 

With special thanks to Adventure Diving Malta, a clean up was organised at Qawra Bay which many of our team members attended. The event was also open to open water divers (& higher qualification) and we also had a lovely team on land support to help with the separation of waste collected.  

As one of WRDMalta's main goals is to promote marine conservation we decided to take the opportunity to record this data for Project AWARE's 'Dive Against Debris' Campaign. All of this data was recorded on the WRDMalta - MyOcean page at http://www.projectaware.org/debris-survey/qawra-bay-malta. 

Items collected varied from glass bottles, beer cans, jerry cans, wooden fragments, ceramics, cigarette buds, amongst many others. The team even retrieved a garage door from the sea bed! On average we have calculated that around 70kg of debris was collected during this dive. 

We would like to thank all those who participated in the event, both on land and underwater. We would also like to thank Adventure Diving for supplying the air and equipment for all the divers. Finally, we would like to congratulate Let's Do it Malta for their great initiative and enthusiasm - keep it up! We very much look forward to participating in next years clean up!