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mallorca beach cleanup day
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On this 20th of september 2008 a little group of humans decided to make a difference on the planet of shame, hands-on workouts, intensive care and high motivation took the buddy-teams to destination.


After 3 years of hesitations and various failed attempts to organise an international beach cleanup day, we can proudly announce that on this 20th of september 2008 Hippocampes divers in mallorca achieved a high standard Beach cleanup day.

From 10:00 to 19:00 a group of divers, snorkellers and land helpers worked on making this planet, the beach and the underwater world a better place to live. Snorkelling teams going to grab a lot of rubbish from the shallow areas of the beach and swimming zones, and the deeper end for divers, whilst the land-helpers were sorting out the collected bags, counting, compiling data and doing land cleanups on various parts of the beach.

We must thank the friendly participation of "Amics de la tierra" for a land cleaning during the morning, and a good fun "marketing" program on their part in the afternoon :).

I am proud to announce the collecting of :
  • 370 glass bottles
  • 30 aluminium cans
  • 10 aluminium and steel profiles
  • 30 pieces of building material (porcelain, bricks, etc)
  • 100 plastic bottles
  • 1/2 a sink
  • 1 boat anchor
  • 1 sunbed
  • 1 sunshade stand
  • 1 sewage pipe
  • 1Truck tyre
In total approximately 15 "120" Litre bags of garbage have been collected from underwater and the beach, counted and then taken up by the "late afternoon" team to the parking where it was going to be collected.

To complete the day we had funded a tombola with gifts for snorkellers and divers..... And the Winners ARE :

Snorkelling:
1st prize  (Mask & snorkel Kit) : Alan Palmer
2nd prize (Fish book and defog spray) : Jessica Rossi
3rd prize (Underwater disposable camera) : Carolin Jaschek

Diving
1st prize  (Spool + SMB) : Oscar Siches
2nd prize (Slate, mask strap, whistle, glow stick, o-ring kit) : Garry Gopaldas-Gil
3rd prize (Dive gloves) : Hugo Bohan-Hartlez

Thanks to all the participants for their help and support on this international beach-cleanup day here in hippocampes divers on the beach of illetas in mallorca, with a non exhaustive list and i hope i haven't forgotten anyone, if so please apologize, send me an email and i'll add the name.

Divers:
  • Clive Davis
  • Fédérico Perez-Ledesma
  • Oscar Siches
  • Tara Siches Van Eijk
  • Marbert Gottenstaeter
  • Sandra Gruber
  • Jonathan Miguel Arco
  • Hugo Bohan-Hartley
  • Oscar Gonzales
  • Gary Gopaldas-Gil
Snorkellers:
  • Jayne Brown
  • Eve Borgognon
  • Jessica Rossi
  • Alan Palmer
  • Sandra Ensenat
  • Marcos Anibal Pimela Sosa
  • sabrina Ravet
  • Ana Mena Ribas
  • Josefina Simonet Monserrat
Land Helpers
  • Olivier Borgognon
  • Eve Borgognon
  • Jayne Brown
  • Carolin Jaschek
  • Amics de la tierra team

Now let's just have a look at all the trash we took out and enjoy the photos :)

 

Opening Hours

Summer
25.June - 30.september : All week 09:00 to 20:00

Off-season

Easter - 25.June / 1.October - 30.octobre : All other days from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed on thursday and on friday

Winter
Any day of the week, but on demand only

Get hold of us

Mobile Phone Spain : +34 677 74 19 75

Land Line Spain : +34 971 70 77 79

Mobile  Switzerland :
+41 79 417 5376

Email  : Info@hippocampes.com

Dive Centre Address:
Hippocampes Divers S.L.
Paseo de Illetas 52A - Balneario la Solana
07181 Illetas

Mailing address:
Hippocampes Divers S.L.
Paseo de Illetas 63, Edf Las Terrazas 4-2C
07181 Illetas

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