As this water area is still declared as archaeological site and at the same time is a port we need a special permission to dive both from local Port Authorities and the Ephorate of Archaeological Research of Greece, something that discourages any attempt for more regular CleanUp Dives as it requires an administrative job and bureaucracy. Τhe fact that is a port (not the main port of the island though, but an auxiliary) contribute to this augmented burden in terms of marine debris (especially of some specific categories like rubbers) and difted or discarded waste. Another reason for that is that in 2015 we experienced an unprecedented flood on the island after a long and heavy rainfall that caused a huge drift of many things (furniture, rubbish, household etc) from the shore in the sea. After that flood we' ve contucted a couple of ''emergency'' CleanUp dives where we recovered even boats that had sunk in place.
It 's unusual that we 've found and collected almost every item that is listed on Debris Identification Guide!
Another remarkable fact is the number of rubber tyres that was sitting on the seabed and there are still more that we didn't recovered!
Rubber Tyres
Batteries from boat/cars
Bulky metal parts
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This Dive Agaainst Debris was organised together with the Municipality of Skopelos and many people participated like freedivers, scouts, the Nautical club, the port Authorities and more. It was a very successful and productive dive.
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