Dive for Earth Day 2009

Another successful cleanup day for Dive for Earth day with a two part effort.
In the morning we cleaned up the beach collecting many sacks of rubbish. TSD staff and customers along with enthusiastic local children got well stuck in.

In the afternoon TSD offered free cleanup dives for all volunteers. We sent out 2 boats to different sites to collect rubbish. As the boats pulled out we were hit with a torrential downpour, but it cleared up quickly. As is usual, we luckily were NOT able to collect huge amount of rubbish as our dive sites were pretty darn clean! That is always good news.
The worst place was Cemetery where we do confined water. It seems an extraordinary amount of old plastic pipes had been swept into the sea in the recent storm and so we managed to collect all of those. Also after the storm there was a lot of surface debris so Gareth & Co went out in Big Jim and did their best to bring that in.

Participants from our Underwater Cleanup
Afterwards we gave out certificates and I mixed my usual lethal ‘Clean-Up Punch”. Many thanks to all our volunteers – customers, staff and locals alike.

Certificates and cocktails all around!

About Andrea Agarwal

Andrea Agarwal is a PADI Master Instructor and the founder of Thresher Shark Divers on Malapascua Island, Philippines. Originally from the UK, she moved to the Philippines in 2003 and built what is now one of the largest and most respected dive operations in the country. TSD is a PADI 5-Star Career Development Center (CDC) and the only PADI TecRec facility on Malapascua. Malapascua is the world's best destination for daily thresher shark encounters, and Andrea has spent over 20 years diving its waters and making sure the world knows it.