Five Things You Can Do to Protect Your Favorite Dive Site

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(DiverWire) When it comes to protecting the environment, everyone wants to be politically correct and do the right thing.  However, for most people, protecting the environment requires a change in mind-set that doesn’t always blend with their day-to-day life.  We hear a lot about “your carbon footprint”, but for most normal people, that doesn’t always translate to real world action items.  However, there are many things you, an Average Joe/Josephine can do, easily, to change the way you impact the environment and most likely protect your favorite dive site.Your Mission: Small changes over a reasonable period of timeLess Plastic!!!Take a look at how much plastic you use!  Plastic cups, water bottles, coffee cups, to-g...
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[brrrandi]

Though the comments on the original post location are closed, I'll offer one more idea here: protect the underwater cultural heritage that we all share by looking only at shipwreck sites and not taking pieces of them with you when you leave. We all want to dive these amazing wrecks for years and years to come. Look; don't touch/take.

 

[smithkuh]

Though the comments on the original post location are closed, I'll offer one more idea here: protect the underwater cultural heritage that we all share by looking only at shipwreck sites and not taking pieces of them with you when you leave. We all want to dive these amazing wrecks for years and years to come. Look; don't touch/take.

lol, sounds really a good idea!

 

[drbill]

I've been trying to protect my favorite dive site (or at least the one I dive the most), the Casino Point dive park on Catalina, by trying to get a permit from the California Dept. of Fish & Wildlife to remove the highly invasive exotic seaweed Sargassum horneri. Strange thing is that Fish & Wildlife has put so many obstacles in the way of doing this it is hard to understand. If any of you reading this thread feel the way I do about this "devil weed," please write Fish & Wildlife and the Commissioners about why this needs to be done.