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Posted by Nicki on September 19, 1999 at 10:39:21:
In Hong Kong, where I live, an annual sea clean-up has taken place three times until now. Divers from all over HK, including professionals and recreational divers, clean up popular dive sites. They often retrieve old fishing nets, aluminum cans, old bottles and lots of other junk. Last year they collected 10 tonnes of rubbish, which is a lot! I think that this really helps to preserve an area and people might want to organize something like that where they dive too. Not only is it not nice diving with all that garbage, but lots of it is harmful to marine life too. Would you be happy being stuck in an abandoned fishing net for the rest of your life? Probably not. If this clean-up hadn't taken place, the HK sea would have around 30 tonnes more garbage in it than it does now. Of course, the best way to ensure the beauty is to get the many people who do throw stuff into the sea to stop it. But that will be hard to do until more people beome aware of the many problems this causes.

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: In Hong Kong, where I live, an annual sea clean-up has taken place three times until now. Divers from all over HK, including professionals and recreational divers, clean up popular dive sites. They often retrieve old fishing nets, aluminum cans, old bottles and lots of other junk. Last year they collected 10 tonnes of rubbish, which is a lot! I think that this really helps to preserve an area and people might want to organize something like that where they dive too. Not only is it not nice diving with all that garbage, but lots of it is harmful to marine life too. Would you be happy being stuck in an abandoned fishing net for the rest of your life? Probably not. If this clean-up hadn't taken place, the HK sea would have around 30 tonnes more garbage in it than it does now. Of course, the best way to ensure the beauty is to get the many people who do throw stuff into the sea to stop it. But that will be hard to do until more people beome aware of the many problems this causes.

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