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glass beverage containers represented about 92% of the debris removed today.

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This was a fine autumn day in NL. The temps were mild, both ashore and in the sea. The sun was breaking through the partly cloudy skies. The leaves on the tress are all turning colour. It is really quite glorious. One of our last scheduled open water courses for the year took to the ocean this past weekend. Andrea K and René C were successful in earning their open water and drysuit diver certifications. Way to go! Their efforts were greatly supported by DM Ken K. Once again, this course had to work their compasses during their drysuit certification dive. They always fall for the trap! They select an easy compass pattern for the previous dive. A north south, reciprocal pattern and then they take a deep breath after the dive and acknowledge they avoid a harder pattern. Now there is nothing but fun ahead. They saw some debris during that dive and we discussed AWARE and remedies during our SI. So let's execute at least one remedy and conduct a dive against debris. Uh?? They are excited to learn about diving against debris, even after they are tasked to plan and execute the dive, swimming a triangle pattern. They have the con. DM Ken and I follow their lead and I manage the capture and lift bags. We do a fair job of scouring the bottom along the course executed by the "navigators." I think we are having an impact. The debris is becoming more and more sparse. That is not to say there is little to be collected. There is still lots but now we have to work at it. Our efforts have been recognized by the sailors at the adjacent marina. They have seen us surfacing bags of debris and they have seen us dumping the debris into the garage bins. Unfortunately the bottles we are collecting are not being accepted at the recycling depots. I say our efforts are being recognized because we are not finding a lot of debris recently deposited in the ocean, rather we are finding debris that has been in the water for sometime. Be it subtle or not, the message is being heard and heeded. Oh, the navigators? Their triangle was a little off but we all had fun and were proud to give this adopted dive site the attention it deserves!