Dive Timor Lorosae 'Splashed for Trash' with The Quality International School Dili and Dili International School. Starting from the Ocean View hotel, over 50 volunteers donned thier rubber gloves, grabbed thier plastic sacks and cleaned up the beach and the surrounding waters. Collecting hundreds of plastic bottles and plastic bags in thier own time, we thought we would give them a bit of a treat awarding prizes for the most unusual pieces of trash. These were a radio, a car bumper and a welding mask!
All ages and nationalites were involved including some very eager Timorese teenagers. We managed to fill 46 large bags full of rubbish before the midday sun got the better of us. All of which will be disposed of for free by Anteater, thank you.
And it wasn't just on the beach, some of our enthusiastic divers went down to clean up the reef. They brought up plastic sheeting, loads of shoes and a hat! Shoes were one of the most common thing collected today.
So thanks to everyone who took part, it was a great day and hopefully we will be able to make it an annual event. Lets make clean water in Timor Leste a reality
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