Volunteer Divers Take On Underwater Pollution
These volunteers are fighting ocean pollution — one dive at a time. 🌊
Fighting Pollution Under the Sea
These volunteer divers are taking the issue of underwater pollution into their own hands, insiring and changing the world for the better. The diving group is called Aegean Rebreath. They take a boat off the coast of the Greek island of Paros and remove trash from the sea. George Sarelakos founded the diving team in 2017. Most of us are divers that have dove around the globe and we know that the problem is huge concerning marine pollution and marine litter. The group has over 20 volunteer divers trying to contribute to a global solution.
Aegean Rebreath has recovered more than 17 tons of trash from the ocean. “For example, today in Paros, apart from all the single-use plastic we found, we also we were able to find some trollies, supermarket trollies, cans — anything that can be found on the mainland within a house.”
Elena Aleiferi Hellenic Navy Officer and volunteer – “I love to be in the sea, since I was a child, I’m close to the sea and it’s very sad to see all this garbage. I believe that it’s very important to clean. And it’s more important not to throw the garbage in the ocean.”
Greece has the longest coastline in Mediterranean Sea Basin ecology — and one of the worst environmental recycling rates, at 17%. The European Union wants member states to have a 50% recycling rate by 2020.
Aegean Rebreath also teaches local governments, communities, and schools about the circular economy — as in, how to recycle, reuse or repurpose items instead of throwing them away. “What we really expect through our work is to spread our concept across Greece and the rest of Europe, and it would be great if it could be around the world.”
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822 comments
Haydee C.
08/16/2019 05:18MY NAME IS HAYDEE AND I THANK GOD EVERYDAY BECOUSE PEOPLE LIKE YOU DEDICATE YOUR TIME AND LIFE TO CLEAN THE ACEAN THANK YOU FROM THE CORAZON
Elina M.
07/16/2019 02:12thought you would appreciate this
Lou A.
07/14/2019 03:13🙄
Hector D.
07/13/2019 20:05Where are u putting this garbage after u pick it up? Can't just put it back in land fills thats where it comes from 🤷🏽♂️ so wat are u really doing
Oriana P.
07/12/2019 08:40Ana Isabel A
Astig P.
07/11/2019 20:02All i can say thankyou to this guys for their effort cleaning the ocean floor.
Angelika M.
07/11/2019 19:35👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Jim L.
07/11/2019 18:23The sad part is most cultures are still dumping in the rivers and oceans. New cruise ships and ferry boats that just flush the toilets straight!
Susan M.
07/11/2019 17:14This is so stupid of people! Your trash doesn't belong in the water!!
Geoff W.
07/11/2019 13:14Bobby
Deborah G.
07/11/2019 12:05Thank you!!
Emma P.
07/11/2019 06:40Every little bit helps, I'm sure just their efforts have had an impact on some marine life already, well done x
Helen K.
07/11/2019 05:09perfect job for you x
Johnny C.
07/11/2019 00:06lets go do this
Niki C.
07/11/2019 00:01YAS PAROS!!!!
Denise F.
07/10/2019 17:11This is amazing..,however there is so much pollution added daily I can't help but feel like each day they clean out the trash that by the end of the day that much more trash would end up back in the ocean. People need to take a stand to cleaning up the earth and our oceans on a global scale if we're ever going to make a real dent at solving the problem.
Sue B.
07/10/2019 12:50Thank You for helping our oceans 🐋🐠🦐🐡🐙🐬🐟🦀🦈❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Gabriel A.
07/10/2019 10:52Divers of the world ,make your own group and get started
Melissa A.
07/10/2019 08:45This is truly Amazing!!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!!
Linda R.
07/10/2019 01:24Thank you