For the fifh year running we co-ordinated with the Manhood Wildlife and Heritage Group (http://www.mwhg.org.uk/) for a Selsey Beach Clean-up under and out of the water. This year the weather decided not to co-operate; for us the last two weeks of storm and high winds from East and West meant minimal visibility and the rain this morning undoubtedly deterred many people from the surface activity.
Despite this 14 people dived and managed to find one Coke can and a cable tie underwater – visibility can only be described as ‘challenging’, ‘minimal’ and ’15cms’ – one buddy pair had a 40 minute excursion whilst most spent considerably less time in the water. On the beach at the Lifeboat over 10kg of Debris was collected by one of our newest PADI Seals, the Surface Cover team and particularly Andy Parks with the 6kg he accumulated. Post dive, Hot Dogs and Burgers were supplied by the Selsey Lions and we added our bags to the Debris pile. As previously, money raised from 50% of the Kit Hire and Sponsorship goes to two charities – Selsey RNLI and Project Aware - this year they will each get £87.
Our grateful thanks to everyone who braved the elements and contributed………..
Given the very poor weather we’ll arrange another Dive for Debris when we have more settled weather.
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