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Great British Beach Clean 2025

As part of the Marine Conservation Society Great British Beach Clean 2025, Peninsula Sub Aqua Club (BSAC) BSAC - British Sub-Aqua Club teamed up with Fathoms Free on Saturday morning to clean the beach at Sennen Cove.

The hardy team of volunteers braved the poor weather and switched from scuba gear to raincoats and litter pickers to clear the beach of marine litter and debris.

Amongst the litter cleared were the usual cans, plastic containers, broken up polystyrene food containers and cups, bottles and tops, cigarette butts, dog poo bags, a toothbrush, trainer, plastic film wrapping, a bucket, lots of fishing industry waste and a large quantity of fragments of plastic items on their way to becoming micro plastics.

Following an hour and a half in the occasional downpours, with some volunteers wishing they'd worn their drysuits, the team had picked the beach clean and headed to the nearest pub to dry out and enjoy a well deserved drink.



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Fathoms Free is a group of volunteer divers who protect marine wildlife and the environment for everyone's benefit by removing ALDFG (abandoned, lost, or otherwise discarded fishing gear) and other marine debris from the coastal waters of Cornwall and Devon.

ALDFG is also known as ghost gear or ghost fishing gear, as it continues to "fish," entangling, trapping, and killing wildlife indiscriminately. These trapped animals will die and act as bait, attracting more wildlife in a vicious cycle of death until the ghost gear is removed from the environment.

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