Coastal Clean-up '06 pictures

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We had a lot of fun this weekend attempting to nearly single-club-edly (so to speak) remove a significant amount of debris that was NOT supposed to be at the bottom of the sea! Aside from the 7 DCOSV members that were in rare form, working hard to clean-up the Bay, we had Fritz and Jeff and Scott Rude also helping. That was it! Last year it was well organized and we had dozens of divers working hard to get the Bay a bit cleaner. This year, only 10 total divers! (Oh well, perhaps we as a club should step-up and try to make something a bit more significant for future events, and get other clubs to co-participate!)
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Anyway, thanks to Ryanfs persistence, hard-work, and gentle persuasion, he convinced the Harbor Master to allow us to dive along Wharf #2 (the commercial pier) as long as we had a boat tending the divers. (Had the Harbor Master more advance notice, he could have provided us with a volunteer and a power boat like last year, but this turned out to be quite fun!) I brought along two Sea Kayaks (thanks Harry!) and on the first dive Tim and John skippered the Kayaks while Ryan, Fritz, Tod, Jason, Gia, and I did the first round of clean-up work. On the second dive, I skippered a Kayak while Ryan and John did an amazing recovery act! Tod and Jason acted as the human hoists, lifting the two largest items directly out of the Bay and onto the pier! Afterwards we had a terrific Sushi Feast at the Sapporo Restaurant (on top of the London Bridge Pub.)
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RUNNER-UP (not sure who brought it up)
Deep Sea Fishing pole
FIRST PLACE WINNER brought up by Ryan & John
A stainless steel fishing chair that we estimated at weighing about 40 pounds (Nice use of the lift-bag, Ryan!!!!)
AND THE GRAND PRIZE brought up by Ryan & John
A 15 speed Mountain bike! (It was so far away from the pier that there was some speculation that it was ridden off at high speed!)
All in all, it was a grand day, and we feel a LOT better about the cr*p-reduction that we did in the Bay! Of course we left anything that had become part of the ecosystem and either had someone living in it or on it.