Splash for Trash at East End Beach
Next month, the City of Portland and the Roddenberry Dive Team in partnership with NAUI’s Green Diver Initiative will host Splash for Trash at the East End Beach. The underwater clean-up is a part of a community effort to improve the water quality and environment at the beach. SCUBA divers will scour the sea floor for trash and debris and bring them to the surface for collection. Prizes provided by Barclay’s Skindivers Paradise will be given for the best “catch” of the day.
Trash in the ocean kills more than one million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals and turtles each year through ingestion and entanglement. Trash left at the beach can easily be picked up by the tide and find its way to the floor of Casco Bay where it could sit for hundreds of years posing a hazard to our local marine life. A tin can will take more than five decades to decompose and a plastic bottle thrown into the ocean today will still be decomposing four centuries from now. For more information about the clean-up effort, visit http://www.skindiversparadise.com/.
When: Saturday, June 2, 2012
9:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Where: East End Beach, Portland
John Hatcher
Keller Williams Realty - The Hatcher Group
6 Deering Street | Portland, Maine 04101
207-775-2121 Office | 207-775-2122 Fax
http://JohnHatcher.us
John@JohnHatcher.us
Next month, the City of Portland and the Roddenberry Dive Team in partnership with NAUI’s Green Diver Initiative will host Splash for Trash at the East End Beach. The underwater clean-up is a part of a community effort to improve the water quality and environment at the beach. SCUBA divers will scour the sea floor for trash and debris and bring them to the surface for collection. Prizes provided by Barclay’s Skindivers Paradise will be given for the best “catch” of the day.
Trash in the ocean kills more than one million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals and turtles each year through ingestion and entanglement. Trash left at the beach can easily be picked up by the tide and find its way to the floor of Casco Bay where it could sit for hundreds of years posing a hazard to our local marine life. A tin can will take more than five decades to decompose and a plastic bottle thrown into the ocean today will still be decomposing four centuries from now. For more information about the clean-up effort, visit http://www.skindiversparadise.com/.
When: Saturday, June 2, 2012
9:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Where: East End Beach, Portland
John Hatcher
Keller Williams Realty - The Hatcher Group
6 Deering Street | Portland, Maine 04101
207-775-2121 Office | 207-775-2122 Fax
http://JohnHatcher.us
John@JohnHatcher.us
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