If you love participating in beach cleanups to give back to Mother Earth, you’ll love doing the same underwater. Learn more about being a conservation hero in the PADI AWARE Dive Against Debris specialty. You’ll collect debris and log the data in a worldwide database, contributing to legislative initiatives. You’ll also learn when to collect an item and when to leave it, recognizing that various ocean creatures may call discarded debris home!
Scuba Center Asia is involved in many conservation efforts. For example: weekly beach clean-ups or monthly Clean-up dives. Read more about our citizen scientist actions here.
The Project AWARE Dive Against Debris Survey means being passionate. Being passionate about diving means you should be passionate about the ocean. You should be willing to do your part to protect it, both proactively and reactively.
To ensure that this ethic is understood by future dive professionals, Kim and Bas at Scuba Center Asia ask all their PADI Divemaster candidates to complete a Project AWARE Dive Against Debris Survey as part of the course. The survey is about taking care of your local dive sites, sorting the trash you find and entering the data into Project AWARE’s Dive Against Debris Map.
