Earth Day, 15th of September

Yesterday was "Earth Day" there were a few dive operators in Phuket who organized under water clean up. I was happy enough to join them to do something good for our environment.

Unfortunately with quite strong wind, boat ride was bit hard on some people who have sensitive stomach. But through the day till really end, weather stayed OK and actually underwater was pretty good condition. To me this day was very different from all others, because I participated this event by myself...no one to look after, no students, no customers.

Most trash we collected were fishing lines and nets, some bottles, small tires. Total amount of trash were not that big amount compare to few years ago. Maybe because event was smaller scale, maybe because people had been caring ?????

There were a few people who are members of Green Fins and they were wearing their T-Shirts says on the back how many years to take some of items to be disposed. It says even food take 2 years and worst one is bottles....guess one million years !!

Hope this kind of event continues and more people are awear of environment we are living in.