The Mseni Beach Cleanup was a huge success with members of the Coral Divers diving staff and some of the guests (24 people in total) joined in to collect mostly plastic but also other debris found on the beautiful and pristine Mseni beach. Most of this debris is washed up from the Indian Ocean and is brought to our beaches by winds and currents.

Mseni beach and the Sodwana Bay beach are well known the nesting sites for turtle species, including Loggerhead-, Green- and Leatherback-turtles and it goes without saying that this area should be kept clean and pristine to help with the survival of these species and numerous others that also bread in this area like birds, crabs, mollusks as well as on the adjacent rock pools and coral reefs.

The 24 people that joined in the beach cleanup were very enthusiastic to participate and an area of about 1 km down the southern Mseni beach was combed for any debris. In this short cleanup that was planned for a one hour period numerous debris items were collected that included but was not limited to; plastic bottles, bags, containers and bottle caps, fishing line, rope, glass bottles, plastic- and metal buckets as well as hundreds of plastic fragments.

The debris was collected on removed from the beach and the items will now be sorted and surveyed to be reported to Project AWARE and the results will be made available soon.

I would like to thank everyone that were involved in this beach cleanup for their involvement and efforts to help keep our beach and oceans clean.