It was time to get the yearly underwater beach clean up at
Chaweng beach under way. As always, sponsored by the THA or Thai Hotel Association-Samui chapter, big thanks to Mr. John Ens, who coordinated this effort!
At 9am we all met at
Al's Resort and after setting up the equipment, a briefing and distributing the trash collection bags, we were off to the beach and ready for the dive.
After the clean up with all the small and bigger bags we collected
With thirteen divers and a beach support post covered, we were off and started to collect all kinds of trash. Glass bottles, plastic bottles and cups, sunglasses, pieces of clothing, buoys, ropes, small wrappers, snorkel and dive masks, snorkels and lots more were collected.
Some bigger items couldn't even brought back to land, like some iron and or steel structures, beach chairs and some big tires. All together I guess we collected at least 45-50 kilos if garbage.
Before we set off
From that point of view, it was a good success! We also spotted lots of marine life, like octopus, barracuda, assorted butterfly fish, assorted trevally, a beautiful cone shell, various shrimps, anemone fish which all indicates a healthy marine life just in front of
Koh Samui's busiest beach!
A great morning and a big thanks to all divers that took the time to come out and participate!
Camille
Labels: Chaweng Beach, Clean up
