DIVER NEWS
Divers respond to big clean-up call
AN EIGHT-DAY volunteer cleanup operation on the Greek island of Ithaca is claimed to have been not only the biggest in the history of marine conservation organisations Healthy Seas and Ghost Diving but one of the most ambitious anywhere in the world.
The project involved removal of 76 tonnes of debris by a team of 45 mostly volunteers – including 20 scuba-divers.
Ithaca, known as the home of Odysseus in Greek mythology, lies off Kefalonia and was said to have suffered serious pollution from a fishfarm abandoned nine years ago.