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The Red Sea Holiday Magazine,
Issue no 65, May 2008
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 | Dahab Dives on Earth Day! |  | | | | Every year, 2-3 times a year, Desert Divers Dahab organises a big beach & reef clean-up. Sometimes they clean Dahab’s famous Canyon & Blue Hole, other times they head out to Ras Abu Galoum by camel, and every once in a while work is concentrated on the reef & beach in Dahab’s Masbat Bay.
This year, for Earth Day (April 22), it was decided to stay close to home in Masbat Bay and the result was fantastic. For the first time ever, there were more locals participating in the clean-up than foreigners. The message is finally filtering through – the earth is worth caring for!
As guests, guides & instructors trash-dived the reef, locals combed the beach north of the bay. They even got on their phones and told friends to clean up other areas in the back of the bay. When it was all over, the local rubbish truck came the second it was called to take the waste away for sorting and recycling.
Over 200 kg of rubbish was collected, but it was one of our most satisfying clean-ups ever.
Dahab Divers would like to send a special thanks to Cher and the team at Project Aware, and to the dive magazines and web sites that have published our eco events over the years. For sure this has helped us influence local opinion. People see photos of Dahab (even themselves!) in print and on the web, and it makes them proud. It makes them realise that people care about the natural world and that Dahab is a very special part of it.
Until the next big event!
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