On World Environment Day, inspired by the video The Ugly Journey of our Trash, a team of female divers from many countries of the world launched a video on social media, where they passed plastic items we use in our daily life to one another to show the amount of plastic packaging that ends up in the landfills and eventually in our ocean to educate on the danger of plastic in our oceans.

This PADI® Women's Dive Day, July 18, we are celebrating women who are leading community actions, fins on and fins off, for a clean and healthy ocean.

In the first global study of its kind analysing data obtained from Project AWARE’s Dive Against Debris® seafloor survey and Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup of beach and nearshore debris, this study, conducted by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), shows a general mismatch between what is located on shorelines and what remains on the seafloor.

El mundo conservacionista ha acogido muy favorablemente que el gobierno canadiense, de acuerdo con las recomendaciones científicas, haya decidido prohibir toda retención a bordo de marrajo dientuso, una especie en peligro de extinción, en las pesquerías del Atlántico. Con esta decisión, Canadá se convierte en el primer país pesquero del Atlántico Norte que aplica una recomendación formulada desde hace mucho tiempo por los científicos de la Comisión Internacional para la Conservación del Atún Atlántico
(ICCAT), que pedían que se prohibiera la retención de marrajos dientusos de esta región. Se requiere con urgencia que esta misma acción se emule por todo el Atlántico Norte con el fin de acabar con la sobrepesca y restablecer esta población de marrajo dientuso, gravemente diezmada. No hace mucho, Canadá ocupaba la quinta posición entre los países parte de ICCAT en lo referente a desembarques de marrajo dientuso del Atlántico.

Conservationists are welcoming a science-based decision by the Canadian government to end all retention of endangered shortfin mako sharks in Atlantic fisheries. With this action, Canada becomes the first North Atlantic country to heed a longstanding recommendation from International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) scientists to prohibit retention of shortfin makos from the region. Such action is urgently needed across the North Atlantic to end overfishing and rebuild the seriously depleted population. Canada recently ranked fifth among ICCAT Parties for North Atlantic shortfin mako landings.

Together with our global community of ocean enthusiasts and dive leaders, we are responding to the unprecedented COVID-19 outbreak by taking fins off actions that keep people, passionate about ocean conservation, connected during this crisis. This #GivingTuesdayNow, above and beneath the waves, or from our homes, we are standing together for a healthy ocean planet.