World record breaking attempts and saving the planet; all in a month’s work for Camel Dive Club

This September set a milestone for Red Sea based Camel Dive Club’s clean up tradition. As part of Project AWARE’s annual Dive against Debris campaign, Camel conducted four clean up events, recruiting thirty divers and collecting 37 kg of marine debris.

On 28 September, Camel joined forced with the Global Underwater Awareness Association in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the most people simultaneously conducting underwater clean ups around the world. The event – entitled “2nd World Clean Up Day” – was officially opened by Prince Albert II of Monaco. Camel was one of only three dive centres participating from Egypt. While our instructor Omar chose the dive sites of Tiran with the Diveline group from Ipswich, UK, instructor Cath took her first day divers to White Knight. As always, the Camel team were delighted to report that the diving areas furthest from the mainland were virtually debris-free and the usual suspects of fishing line and plastic buoy lines were found locally. Thankfully the number of plastic bags and bottles recovered remained in single figures but during a clean up earlier in the month, instructor Sven and his team found over thirty snorkels!

To find out how you can get involved with Camel’s next big clean up, email them at info@cameldive.com or call them on +20-69-3600700.