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”.
WORLD RECORD! 633 divers in South Florida broke the Guinness World Record for the largest underwater cleanup in history, collecting thousands of pieces of trash from the ocean floor! ???? https://t.co/frH4Wfv1vn pic.twitter.com/e0IqwfUdEB
— FOX 13 Tampa Bay (@FOX13News) June 16, 2019
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:
"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.
Ocean Divers Set Guinness World Record For Largest Underwater Cleanup https://t.co/W0L0LhRxq9 pic.twitter.com/glkDKGAbPt
— Essex Explorers (@xexplore) June 19, 2019
