Divers remove junk from Canada Water

Scuba divers from Bermondsey have been taking part in a nationwide underwater litter pick.

Around 20 members of the Bermondsey Sub Aqua Club, a branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC), spent several hours on Sunday September 2nd removing shopping trolleys, motorbike frames and tin cans from Canada Water which is a haven for marine and wildlife.

Their efforts are part of a nationwide campaign by BSAC to remove litter from the waterways and coastline around Britain and record what is found.

Brett Parker, Training Officer for Bermondsey Sub Aqua Club, said:

BSACs Underwater Litterpick runs until October 31 and hundreds of diving clubs up and down the UK have registered to take part. For each litter pick, divers are completing a data form to help record the volume and type of litter they have found plaguing the area where they dive.

These forms are then submitted to BSAC headquarters in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, where the information will be collated and shared with the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) which is staging its own Beachwatch campaign where volunteers come together to clean up Britain's beaches.

One Leatherback turtle found in Galloway had one white plastic bag, one black plastic binliner, three transparent plastic bags, one green plastic bag and one transparent plastic bag for chicken meat packaged by a US company in its stomach.