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Scuba divers on a mission to conserve marine life
A motley group of students, passersby and morning walkers had a new learning experience at 6 am on Friday at RK Beach as a team of professional scuba divers engaged them in an awareness drive on ocean cleanup.
Visakhapatnam: A motley group of students, passersby and morning walkers had a new learning experience at 6 am on Friday at RK Beach as a team of professional scuba divers engaged them in an awareness drive on ocean cleanup.
In an endeavour to put an end to plastic menace and conserve marine ecosystem, the team that has already collected 4,000 kilos of trash from ocean says that sensitisation plays a key role in marine conservation.
Donning scuba diving equipments and a mask, the team laid emphasis on keeping the oceans clean sans plastic and other trash and exhorted people not to throw litter into the ocean.
With the first clean up drive began at Mangamaripeta, the team of Platypus Escapes Private Limited that provides training in scuba diving and swimming, have so far done 12 clean up drives in Rushikonda as well as Mangamaripeta.
"After the maiden drive completed at Mangamaripeta as part of the IIM-Visakhapatnam's management week celebrations a couple of months before, we undertook similar initiatives at Rushikonda.
Every time we dive into waters two-metre deep, we would collect 400 to 500 kg of trash. This shows the magnitude of marine debris that is rising at alarming levels. There is a need to tackle it a larger level and our exercise is a step towards this direction," explains Subhash Chandran, founder-chief operations officer Platypus Escapes.
The training firm, affiliated to Scuba Schools International, offers certified diving courses to persons with disability also. "Organising ocean clean up drive has become a regular feature for the past few months as our motto is to promote clean underwater and conserve marine life. We go about two-metre deep to collect the trash in a net-bag and return to place them back in the bins," narrates Subhash Chandran.
Subhash Chandran is assisted by S Appanna, Divya Teja, Siva Kumar, Sachin Sharma and Prasad, among others in carrying out underwater clean up mission. At times, volunteers and students will also chip in for the clean-up activity.
