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Concerned about
the amount of plastic and metal debris littering the coasts and
crawling deeper into our sea, the National Institute for Scuba
Diving in Lebanon (NISD) organized, for the fourth year in a
row, the Coastal Cleanup Day in Lebanon. |
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By organizing
this event, NISD aims to raise public awareness about the sea
pollution, give a chance to the community to express their
respect for the sea and demonstrate the desire for clean water
and healthy marine life.
Showing how much trash a group of divers can gather in one day
should encourage people to accomplish something vital and worthy
on behalf of our environment, least but not last, stop throwing
trash into the sea.
This year's event was marked by the live video broadcast through
the Internet of the boats' activity taking divers and bringing
them back from and to the dive center.
Sponsored by NISD,
Cyberia,
DIVE RITE,
HSBC, and
Sukleen, this event
covered several dive sites and retrieved more than a ton of
garbage from a depth of 5 to 15 m.
120 divers and volunteers from Middle Eastern, Gulf, European
and North American countries from the age of 12 to 70 conducted
more than 10 dives from 9:00 am till 6:00 pm retrieving all
sorts of debris (car tires, glass bottles, metallic cans,
plastic cups, ropes, plastic and metal pipes, plastic chairs,
clothes, shoes…).
On this day, September 17, 2005, and for the fourth year in a
raw, the National Institute for Scuba Diving in Lebanon
Organized the Coastal Cleanup Day in Lebanon.
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