Diving & Cleaning

Our Marine Vigilantes Network project has more than 150 clubs and diving centers participating in the seabed and beach cleanups that we carry out annually. The Diving & Cleaning initiative will carry out 100 seabed cleanings in different parts of the Spanish coast with volunteer divers from the Marine Watchers Network. This citizen science initiative will not only remove waste from our seabed, it will also weigh and categorize it, uploading this data through the MARNOBA application so that it is available to the scientific community. The nets that the divers will use are manufactured by a group of women netters who use abandoned fishing nets to make them. In this way, employment is generated for a group of unemployed women, abandoned networks and a traditional trade are recovered. In each location where the cleanups are carried out, an environmental education talk will be given at the educational center closest to the action point. These educational talks will be accompanied by graphic material of the action and will focus on the need to change consumption habits and the responsibility of citizens regarding the problem of marine litter. These actions will be associated with a communication campaign aimed at the press, radio television and various social networks.