Divers cleaning up Racha Yai and Racha Noi Island

Posted by admin on April 28th, 2008 filed in Activities, Living here, The locals

Last week more than 150 kilos of garbage such as household trash, clothing, three tyres, plastic bottles, and fishing nets were collected by a group of divers, which supported the Earth Day activities by cleaning up Koh Racha Yai and Koh Racha Noi’s beaches and the surrounding underwater areas, about 12.5 miles south of Phuket.

More than 30 enthusiastic persons accommodated one of the scuba diving boats. The entire underwater rubbish collection required only two 60-minute lasting group dives, the owner of a reputed dive school said.

No doubt about it! A beach like this must remain clean

The cleaning underwater activity was just one of the diving company’s important environmental actions, showing our commitment to protect and maintain the area’s superb dive sites, the owner said. “We decided to cleanup these particular waters as our agency usually operates here between early June and early October. We use and enjoy these sites so obviously we maintain their quality.”

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