STAND UP TO TRASH

For over 30 years, PADI and AWARE have partnered to do impactful conservation work, effectively building a truly unique voice for the protection of the underwater world. Our purpose is to mobilize the world’s largest dive community to create ocean change. 

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Since the launch of PADI AWARE Foundation’s Dive Against Debris® program in 2011, more than 90,000 divers have aided over 35,000 entangled marine animals and reported 2.5 million pieces of marine debris to inform groundbreaking research and public policy that is helping to create healthier oceans. 

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PADI AWARE houses the largest underwater database for sea floor debris on the planet! Divers around the world submit survey data from their Dive Against Debris dives and the survey results can be seen on the Global Map! Scientists, researchers and policymakers then interpret the data. In this way, the data supports the development and implementation of policies to improve solid waste management, locally and globally.

The citizen science data collected and reported helps create targeted, effective solutions. There have been two scientific papers published using surveys from Dives Against Debris! 

We need your help to help close the tap on plastic pollution!   PADI is rallying the global community of ocean enthusiasts to support PADI AWARE at the international policy table. Your individual action will help ensure that the strongest policy options are implemented to end plastic pollution once and for all and secure our brightest future. PADI is well positioned to provide a global solution to the plastics problem through PADI AWARE'S flagship citizen science program Dive Against Debris, the only underwater marine debris clean-up solution that does not damage the marine environment.


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Support the PADI AWARE® policy team and sign the petition calling for a strong Global Plastics Treaty that tackles the marine debris crisis – and encourage others to do the same.