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BSAC extend deadline for Marine Clean Photo Contest
There’s still time to enter your clean up pictures into BSAC’s Marine Clean 2018 photo competition.
Launched earlier this year as part of BSAC’s Marine Clean initiative, the competition is looking for more photos of club and individual litter clean ups, both topside and underwater.
The deadline has been extended to 30 October 2018 to allow for entries coming out of late-season dives and clean-ups to be submitted.
From group or individual beach cleans to underwater litter-picks and surface interval clean ups, if you have a photo of your marine litter haul and activities, then enter them before the end of October – and you could win an Apeks regulator worth more than £500!
The photo competition is part of BSAC Marine Clean 2018, a club-wide initiative to encourage members to get involved in tackling the tide of plastic and other marine litter blighting our oceans.
It could be a photo of the litter you collect topside, or a pic of your Underwater Litter-pick or Beach Clean team in action.
How to enter
- Share your Marine Clean efforts on Instagram or Twitter using the hashtag #bsacmarineclean.
- Alternatively, enter your Marine Clean photos using the online form to show your support and be entered into the prize draw by clicking here.
Get involved in the BSAC Marine Clean 2018
Join BSAC members around the country helping to turn the tide on plastic polluting our oceans and environment.
- Get your Five-a-Day – embrace the Marine Clean ethos by pledging to collect at least five pieces of single-use plastic every day! Pledge to take the Five-a-Day litter challenge.
- Marine clean as you dive – get together with your club or your dive buddies and organise an Underwater Litterpick – or commit to be an ‘Underwater Litterpicker’ on every dive. The Underwater Litterpick resources will help you get started.
- Clean up topside – whether it’s part of a family day out to the beach, your surface interval on a club trip or a more organised group effort, make every trip to the coast a chance to have a tidy-up. Beach Cleans – which can also include roads and areas leading up to a beach – can really make a difference in the amount of debris getting into our oceans.
- Do it – share it! Collect, capture and upload your Marine Clean 2018 pictures and success stories. View Marine Clean 2018 entries.
Check out all the BSAC Marine Clean 2018 activities to get involved in.
For more information about BSAC visit their website by clicking here.
Over the next 12 months, specialist scuba holiday company Dive Worldwide will be supporting Bite-Back Shark & Marine Conservation with donations collected from client bookings to any one of its stunning dive destinations around the world. The independently-owned operator expects to raise £3000 for the UK charity.
Manager at Dive Worldwide, Phil North, said: “We’re especially excited to work with Bite-Back and support its intelligent, creative and results-driven campaigns to end the UK trade in shark products and prompt a change in attitudes to the ocean’s most maligned inhabitant.”
Bite-Back is running campaigns to hold the media to account on the way it reports shark news along with a brand new nationwide education programme. Last year the charity was credited for spearheading a UK ban on the import and export of shark fins.
Campaign director at Bite-Back, Graham Buckingham, said: “We’re enormously grateful to Dive Worldwide for choosing to support Bite-Back. The company’s commitment to conservation helps set it apart from other tour operators and we’re certain its clients admire and respect that policy. For us, the affiliation is huge and helps us look to the future with confidence we can deliver against key conservation programmes.”
To launch the fundraising initiative, Phil North presented Graham Buckingham with a cheque for £1,000.
Visit Dive Worldwide to discover its diverse range of international scuba adventures and visit Bite-Back to learn more about the charity’s campaigns.
MORE INFORMATION
Call Graham Buckingham on 07810 454 266 or email graham@bite-back.com
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