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Divers Set Guinness World Record for the Largest Underwater Cleanup

Jun 20, 2019

We all know that plastics and trash have already blocked our ocean water causing plastic pollution and in order to make a little change, some 600 dives went on the dive to clean it.

633 Divers got together on the Deerfield Beach International Fishing Pier in Florida to clean up the ocean and made the Guniess World Record for “Most participants in an underwater cleanup in 24 hours”.

This cleanup was organized by Dixie Divers and the Woman’s Club of Deerfield Beach and about 9,000 items of marine debris, including 3,200 pounds of fishing gear was retrieved from the sea.

As per CNN, there were many kinds of trash that were found in the ocean for which a participant had a few words to say:

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"There were countless lead sinkers, right form a boat ladder to a barbell. People are constantly fishing there. That's one of the reasons why there's so much debris".

This entire event was sponsored by Project AWARE and PADI with a purpose to display that conversation unites different people together. People from different parts of the world had come together for this cause.

The last World record was set in the year 2015 by a team of 614 divers. Those divers cleaned the trash from the Red Sea in Egypt.

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