Seaweek is celebrated each year in New Zealand with this year's theme being "Look Beneath the Surface" which seems perfect for our divers.

A small group of divers headed out along Petone Wharf and collected ~20kgs of rubbish between them. Mostly fishing line and other fishing related items such as knives & berley cans. There were a few bottles, a dive mask, a pair of goggles and a plastic trolley collected along the way.

Most of the rubbish was pulled up onto the wharf where the rubbish was stripped of marine life with lots of mussels and cushion stars returned to the sea.

Unfortunately there was a lot more rubbish on land with lots of food wrappers & drink containers and over 500 cigarette butts collected. Th emost unusual item collected was a single false eyelash!

A BIG thanks to those that participated and while the lack of rubbish found is not as fun for the divers it was great to see a cleaner environment. We usually dive this site each September but didn't last year due to poor weather conditions.