Voor het derde jaar op rij al werd gisteren de Aware Dive georganiseerd. De voorbije twee jaren gingen de duikers het water van de Blaarmeersen in, dit jaar kozen ze voor de Watersportbaan. Die bestaat al 65 jaar, maar er is nog nooit in gedoken. "Speciaal voor ons heeft de stad het zwemverbod opgeheven", zegt Bart Cobbaert van duikclub Bubble Divers. "Wij hebben maandag al een proefduik uitgevoerd om op te meten hoe diep de Watersportbaan is. Op zijn diepste punt is dat 2,20 meter. Dat is ook interessant voor de stad die baggerwerken wil uitvoeren.

International explorer and 100% AWARE partner Paul Rose joined a Thames foreshore clean up on 30 September and called on Londoners to 'do the right thing' and make sure their rubbish goes in the bin, not in the river.

A free online course aimed at increasing awareness of, and stimulating creative solutions to marine litter has opened for registration. The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) will begin on 26 October, 2015.

VALPARAISO, Chile -- U.S. President Barack Obama declared new marine sanctuaries in Lake Michigan and the tidal waters of Maryland on Monday, while Chile blocked off more than 200,000 square miles of the Pacific Ocean near the world-famous Easter Island from commercial fishing and oil and gas exploration.

Amazing prizes have been donated to Project AWARE for the Sport Diver 2015 Charity Auction in support of ocean protection and bidding is NOW OPEN!
Prizes up for grabs range from a fabulous 7-night accommodation package at the Malapascua Exotic Island Dive Resort including 10 dives for 2 people, generously donated by Ultimate Diving, to stunning jewelry donated by both Aquamarine and Reef Jewelry.

Ocean Conservancy today announced the global launch of Stemming the Tide: Land-based strategies for a plastic-free ocean – a first-of-its-kind, solutions-oriented report in partnership with the McKinsey Center for Business and Environment that outlines specific land-based solutions for plastic waste in the ocean, starting with the elimination of plastic waste leakage in five priority countries (China, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand).

An effort by the European Union and the United States to better prevent shark “finning” (slicing off a shark’s fins and discarding the body at sea) gained support from Cuba and Norway during this week’s annual meeting of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO). The EU and US have repeatedly proposed that NAFO and other international fisheries bodies strengthen existing finning bans by prohibiting the removal of shark fins at sea.

An international study led by a University of Queensland researcher has revealed more than half the world's sea turtles have ingested plastic or other human rubbish.
The study, led by Dr Qamar Schuyler from UQ's School of Biological Sciences, found the east coasts of Australia and North America, Southeast Asia, southern Africa, and Hawaii were particularly dangerous for turtles due to a combination of debris loads and high species diversity.
"The results indicate that approximately 52 per cent of turtles world-wide have eaten debris," Dr Schuyler said.