{"id":372,"date":"2010-09-19T21:24:58","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T07:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/?p=372"},"modified":"2014-07-27T15:09:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T01:09:23","slug":"this-rubbish-did-not-soil-my-dive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/this-rubbish-did-not-soil-my-dive\/","title":{"rendered":"This Rubbish did not Soil my Dive!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Early in the week<\/strong>, I get a call from Dave at Blue Wilderness Dive Adventures<\/a> with an invitation to join them again this year for a trashy dive…huhhmmm…

\"One<\/a>
One Small Group of Dive Buddies: Dave, Lori, Joy, and Deb. A few of the many that turned out to support the efforts.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

I mean another Puako Beach Clean-up Dive on Saturday morning, September 18th \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n

Both Andy and I joined in on last year’s effort on September 12<\/a>; but, “sadly”, Andy had to work on the Mountain this year on the scheduled date. This year, while he was on Mauna Kea Summit, I went shore diving bringing in rubbish of all types and taking pictures as best as I could in the murky water so near the Puako Bay shoreline.

\"When<\/a>
When it is now so much a Part of the Reef that it would destroy more of the coral than would be benefited, we leave it embedded.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

We didn’t have to dive very deep to bring up a lot of rubbish such as car tires, a vehicle break cylinder, numerous drink cans (what a waste of HI-5<\/strong>‘s!),

\"Catch<\/a>
Catch of the Day: A nice sized anchor!<\/figcaption><\/figure> yards of abandoned fishing line with a couple of large hooks attached, some golf balls, a few “what’s its”, and a boat anchor (Lori got her workout on that one) — and that was just what was pulled out of the water.<\/p>\n
\"The<\/a>
The take for the day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The onshore team gathered up way too many cigarette butts, a rusty section of barbed wire fence with rusty posts, a dirty diaper or two, more golf balls, and a few more “what’s its”!<\/p>\n

\"Off<\/a>
Off to the Waste Disposal site so near the Bay. Why this gets dumped in the Bay instead… ??? …<\/figcaption><\/figure>The “what’s its” lead to some interesting speculation of what the former function was prior to becoming rusty litter :-O Much laughter ensued from the comments put forth! <\/p>\n

All was not depressing, however! \ud83d\ude42 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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We saw a lot of ocean life in the shallow water dive while searching for rubbish as well. There were numerous juveniles of several fish species, one or two turtles, a beautiful patch of purple coral, some fancy algae; and some of us (I missed it) saw the Hawaiian Green Lionfish that was “camped out” under the pier next to the boat ramp! <\/p>\n

\"Camouflaged<\/a>
Camouflaged Oyster – A feeling of belonging.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A GREAT way to get bottom time, and help the environment in the process! I had SO much fun that when I got home, I put the gear away; and promptly collapsed from a “good”, well earned exhaustion \ud83d\ude09 FANTASTIC DAY! <\/p>\n

\"How<\/a>
How Juvenile! \ud83d\ude00 … These and others were plentiful in the cove.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early in the week, I get a call from Dave at Blue Wilderness Dive Adventures with an invitation to join them again this year for a trashy dive…huhhmmm… I mean another Puako Beach Clean-up Dive on Saturday morning, September 18th \ud83d\ude09 Both Andy and I joined in on last year’s effort on September 12; but, “sadly”, Andy had to work on the Mountain this year on the scheduled date. This year, while he was on Mauna Kea Summit, I went shore diving bringing in rubbish of all types and taking pictures as best as I could in the murky water so near the Puako Bay shoreline. We didn’t have to dive very deep to bring up a lot of rubbish such as car tires, a vehicle break cylinder, numerous drink cans (what a waste of HI-5‘s!), yards of abandoned fishing line with a couple of large hooks attached, some golf balls, a few “what’s its”, and a boat anchor (Lori got her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[64,71,65,36,69,68],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7j5sP-60","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":71,"href":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadgetgypsy.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}