Join us for an Underwater Cleanup!
SECONN Skin Divers seek to be an environmentally conscious crew – each dive is considered a cleanup dive (whether it’s trash or treasure); but we do set aside at least a few dives every year whose sole purpose is to seek out and recover as much trash and marine debris as possible. We celebrate Earth Day with a cleanup dive in the Connecticut River and the International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) dive in the Thames River in September. The ICC is an international initiative to promote the problem of marine debris and to organize a world wide effort to clean up our coasts.
Since 2014, SECONN divers and helpers have helped pull over 1,500 items from the Thames River. These items include food wrappers, cigarettes, socks, plastic bottles, straws, bicycles, and more. This year, our divers and helpers pulled over 30 glass bottles and pieces of pottery, oars, fishing poles, license plates, marine debris, and even a stop sign from the area around the Deep River Landing for our Earth Day Cleanup.
Help us clean up our coastal waterways – both in dedicated underwater cleanup dives and in regular recreational dives. If you go diving and find a site that is full of debris, let us know! Locals divers are always helping to clean up our waterways.
