Its been a while since the last post as things have been very busy. We have just done our second underwater & beach cleanup, and it went as well as the first, another great success.
We left Sihanoukville with 16 divers and 4 snorklers and arrived at the island of Koh Rung Samleom around 9:30 am after a quick run a round the village Bora found gathered the kids for the second clean up. Bora, Maaike, Lee and Clair headed off to the beach with the kids to check out the area we cleaned last time, it was pretty clean and they only managed to fill 4 large sacks with rubbish which is great as the first time they collected over 20 sacks of rubbish. Looks like a clean up every two months might really make a difference and keep it clean.
"While they cleaned up the beach, we headed off to clean up the ocean"
We started by cleaning the shallow areas around the village pier as we decided this may well stop alot of the rubbish reaching the reefs. In two or three short dives we managed to fill the back deck of the boat, bringing up lots of nets, lines, plastic bags, and bottles, and some strange asorted items of clothing, strangely enough, a lot of pairs of underpants everyone was glad they had gloves, we even found the remains of a happy simley umbrella and an old wellie.
Its been another great success not only for the cleaning but once again helping the kids on the Island to understand the importance of looking after their environment. We also took the opportunity to introduce the Kids to project aware. We are now waiting on Project aware to supply us with enough materials to run full project aware lessons at the island School.
Project Aware
The Dive Shop would Like to Thank:
Bora, Maaike, Lee, Bianca, Matthias, Sol, Kate, Chantel, Danny, Regis, BiBi, Merrisa, Emelie, The Captain, Lucy, Brem, Clair, Yoshimi, Shina and all the kids from the Island.
Another truly international day with people coming from, Japan, Cambodia, Australia, England, Norway, Holland, Germany, France and Turkey.
More photos: www.diveshopcambodia.com/photo%20galleries/cleanup2/cleanup2.htm
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