PADI® and their international non-profit the PADI AWARE Basis™ are calling on the diving neighborhood to participate within the seventh Annual AWARE Week from 14 – 22 September 2024 to assist rid the ocean of marine particles.
In an effort to sort out the marine particles disaster, PADI Members are inspired to prepare occasions that can finally play a task in influencing the World Plastics Treaty, which represents a singular and essential alternative for a worldwide coordinated initiative to considerably tackle the continuing plastic air pollution disaster.
PADI is looking for to implement the Dive In opposition to Particles program into the World Plastics Treaty as a part of the worldwide answer to take away and monitor marine particles, which is at the moment into account in Article 11 of the Treaty. If included, Dive In opposition to Particles can be acknowledged as an authorized methodology for governments to leverage as an answer for monitoring and reporting marine particles – with the flexibility to affect data-driven insurance policies that may finally create adjustments to waste-management techniques and plastic provide chains around the globe.
“This 12 months PADI Members have a big alternative to hitch us and switch the tide on plastics,” says Danna Moore, Director of PADI AWARE®. “With the World Plastics Treaty at the moment in improvement and the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) on the horizon for November, this 12 months’s AWARE Week occasions present an necessary alternative to name for a robust treaty.”
These trying to participate within the annual AWARE Week actions are inspired to include not less than one of many following:
1. Train the Dive In opposition to Particles Specialty Course
Dive In opposition to Particles is the world’s largest citizen science underwater marine particles database and gives crucial survey information that’s finally used to affect authorities coverage that can create optimistic ocean change.
Providing the Dive In opposition to Particles Specialty Course will present divers with the abilities and information on find out how to take away marine particles from dive websites and log information into the database.
“All PADI Assistant Instructors and better are actually mechanically eligible to show the Dive In opposition to Particles® Specialty Course, that means extra PADI Professionals now have the ability to show extra superheroes find out how to save the ocean,” continues Moore.
2. Make Each Dive a Survey Dive
Throughout AWARE Week, make each single dive a survey dive – whether or not that be a part of an academic course or an journey dive.
“We additionally encourage PADI Members to maintain the momentum going each throughout and after AWARE Week and proceed submitting Dive In opposition to Particles information, as it can proceed to assist PADI AWARE’s coverage work to create a standardized international monitoring answer for marine particles,” emphasizes Moore.
3. Host Dive In opposition to Particles Occasions
“One of many best methods to get entangled in AWARE Week is to host a Dive In opposition to Particles occasion or different conservation exercise,” explains Moore.
PADI Members can simply have interaction college students of their native conservation efforts by internet hosting a community-wide Dive In opposition to Particles occasion that invitations everybody in to participate in a seaside or ocean clean-up. They will additionally arrange a workshop earlier than or after the clean-up that teaches the PADI AWARE course, spotlight the first points affecting their native marine ecosystem and provide ways in which these in the neighborhood can proceed to assist save the ocean.
4. Help the Petition for a Robust World Plastics Treaty
PADI Members can ask their diving neighborhood to signal the petition throughout AWARE Week, which requires a robust World Plastics Treaty, guaranteeing that:
- The speed at which plastic waste enters the ocean is considerably decreased;
- Avoidable plastic merchandise that generally enter the ocean are eradicated;
- Governments acknowledge that the diving neighborhood is crucial in monitoring the influence of the treaty.
“PADI and the AWARE Basis are the one organizations representing the worldwide leisure dive neighborhood within the ongoing official negotiations main as much as the anticipated settlement of the World Plastics Treaty in 2025,” explains Moore. “Assist us attain our objective of 10,000 signatures throughout AWARE Week by rallying your neighborhood to signal too.”
To study extra about AWARE Week and find out how to get entangled, go to www.padi.com/leadawareweek.
About PADI AWARE Basis:
PADI AWARE Basis™ is a non-profit public charity that drives international ocean conservation by means of native motion. PADI AWARE Basis engages divers and folks all over the place to take conservation actions that heal and shield the ocean planet each above and beneath the floor, additional elevating and supporting PADI’s imaginative and prescient to realize stability between humanity and ocean. Backed by the ability of the PADI® model and supported by the world’s largest international community of 6,600 dive facilities and resorts and greater than 128,000 skilled members worldwide, PADI AWARE Basis leverages the collective affect of divers and the dive trade to handle key threats dealing with the marine atmosphere together with local weather change, marine habitat loss and susceptible species safety. PADI AWARE Basis advances its mission and the PADI Blueprint for Ocean Motion by means of underwater citizen science, public coverage, schooling and neighborhood grants. www.padiaware.org
Within the first occasion of PADI AWARE Basis, we should always at all times use the complete identify. In comply with up statements, we are able to shorten to AWARE, AWARE Basis or the Basis if we’re utilizing PADI in the identical sentence to keep away from repetitiveness. However let’s at all times maintain it totally spelled out within the first point out in any launch.
We should be cautious about saying it resolves plastic air pollution. There’s actually no answer on earth that can fully resolve it. In fact, we hope the treaty will considerably tackle it, but it surely sounds smug to say it can resolve it.
