Abyss Scuba Diving Club members Dive Team Abyss are organising a Dive Against Debris survey on Sunday 5th March 10am at The Monument (including Sutherland Point) Kurnell in Kamay Bay National Park. We have planned two dives and a BBQ, and we will be recording the rubbish collected on our slates and uploading the data to my My Ocean profile. All divers are welcome!

This is a great opportunity for our divers to have an introduction to a Dive Against Debris Survey at one of our favourite dive sites in Kurnell, the home of the weedy sea dragon and location of our Crayweed Project. We often pick up plastic bags and other debris on our dives here, so we hope to spark ongoing interest for our divers to make all their dives a Dive Against Debris.

If you are interested in coming, please read the Dive Against Debris Survey Guide beforehand, which covers a background in Marine Debris, dive activities and post dive activities including sorting, recording and reporting data. Our dive brief will cover survey dive profiles, plans, photography, safety issues and guidelines on items to collect and those to leave behind. Please be familiar with these from the Survey Guide. Get involved in the dives by spotting debris, collecting, taking photos or just come for shore / BBQ support! All divers must have gloves, a dive knife or line cutter. Please also sign the Dive Against Debris Event liability release at the shop or dive site. We have some nifty Project AWARE mesh bags to use for the dives, but please bring any bags you have and your camera / go pro.

Project AWARE’s flagship citizen-science program, Dive Against Debris®, empowers scuba divers to remove marine debris from the ocean and report data on the types, quantities and locations of materials collected.  For more information, please check out the Project AWARE website.

Hope you can come, our Dive Against Debris Survey is going to be a great event and a chance for us divers to have a positive impact on one of a favourite local dive sites.

Yours in great diving,

Stephen Guy

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