Please stop trashing Lake Wazee

[ccuda]

That's the problem, what's pleasure to one for a day of enjoyment, can be trash for others and the environment.

We don't have the privledge or right to pick and choose what's good for us for the moment in the name of our personal pleasure, we need to be above that and BE making the difference when we can each day. As people and divers, we need to BE responsible and think of our actions and consequences.

Do we really need ONE day a year to remind us of our annual committment to lakeside and oceans clean up? EVERY time we dive, we can and should be making a positive impact. It seems everyday we go diving, we bring back some trash, ie some beer cans, plastic bottles, etc, lets not add more to it.

I think John J has a perfectly said it, none of this stuff needs to be there. It's one thing to have fish cribs to help the stocks of fish grow. Platforms to help in safety, avoiding disturbing or destroying bottom nutrients, and to help new divers keep better control of their learning skills to avoid trashing the bottom landscape. But it stops there if it's not doing anything to help the environment and future of the area.

As divers, we came into this sport to OBSERVE nature and explore, not to find new uses for our trash. Those fishcribs and platforms weren't put there simply for the sole purpose of our enjoyment and playtime. They are there for good reasons.

Imagine a Wazee or ANY underwater environment littered with plastic, trinkets, waterplay toys, and other garbage. There's already enough crap in our waterways, lakes, and oceans that's had centuries of carelessness, ignorance, and disregard already thrown in. Do we don't need more of it, no. The fish and other critiers don't need foreign objects to choke on or more metals leaching into their bodies.

If someone just has to have their toys, then go play in any roadside drainage ditch and storm sewer runoffs, there's plenty to be found. Your buddy and nature are more enjoyment than some 'product' found one some department store shelf and thrown in the water.

Please employ a conscienscious EVERYDAY volunteer effort to clean up as you dive and put an end to selfish and eco-destructive diving. Just like camping, always bring out what you brought in, and take out more trash than you created.