"We have just completed our second beach & underwater cleanup.
Like the first one it went and was another great success"

e left Sihanoukville with 16 divers and 4 snorkelers and arrived at the Island of Koh Rung Samleom around 9.30am. After a quick run round the village Bora found and gathered the kids for the second clean up. Bora, Maaike, Lee and Clair headed off to the beach with the kids to check out the area we had cleaned last time. It was still pretty clean and they only managed to fill 4 large sacks with rubbish whereas the first time they had collected over 20 sacks of rubbish.It looks like a clean up every two months might really make a difference and and manage to keep it clean.

While they cleaned the beach we headed off to clean up the ocean. We started by cleaning the shallow areas around the village pier hoping that this might prevent a lot of the rubbish reaching the reefs. In two or three short dives we managed to fill the back deck of the boat, bringing up lots of nets, lines, plastic bags and bottles, and some strange assorted items of clothing, strangely enough, a lot of pairs of underpants everyone was glad they had gloves, we even found the remains of a happy smiley umbrella and an old wellingtpn boot.

It has been another great success not only for the cleaning but once again helping the kids on the Island to understand the importance of looking after their environment.

We also took the opportunity to introduce the Kids to project aware. We are now waiting on Project aware to supply us with enough materials to run full project aware lessons at the Island School.