This mention is kind of late... actually something like three years late, but I felt it was worthy of being told. On our annual club resort trip in 2009, we stayed at the Sunset Waters Beach Resort in Curacao. Towards the end of this week long stay, our member Dave Gaines motivated our group to help clean up the shore near our resort.
Although not even being close to the trash you might see here on the freeways of L.A., due to the constant breeze near the inlet, plastic bags, cups, and other man made trash had collected on the shore of the waterway opposite the resort. Some of the shrubs were decorated with shredded white plastic bags, which is sad to see on such a remote location. It was enough to blemish this otherwise beautiful landscape, and enough to motivate Dave to suggest getting a group together to collect the trash.
Also, it felt good to volunteer one afternoon out of our week stay to do a little good deed for our host island.
As you can see in the photos, the effort of the group yielded a good amount of trash. And the resort people seemed happy too to see that American tourist can care enough to help clean and improve the environment, and not just dive, eat, drink, and throw our money around (not that I have any money to throw around). One member, Rosa even took an urchin spine to her foot while collecting trash in shallow waters. What a trooper! But don't worry, she is fine and is still a great diver ;-)
So, a very late, but deserved Kudos goes to "Captain Cleanup" Dave Gaines for motivating everyone to help cleanup, and leave this earth a little better place.
which resulted in the Michigan Sea Grant (HUGI) tables and his participation in the development of the EDGE dive computer. Karl enjoys educating divers in the area of decompression (making divers more aware of the limitations of dive tables and computers) and diving safety. To that end he has given hundreds of lectures, seminars, and workshops as a featured speaker at conferences around the world. He has authored many articles and publications on decompression theory including "The Dynamics of Decompression Workbook," and contributing to "Dive Computers - A Consumer's Guide to History, Theory, and Performance" and "Women and Pressure - Diving and Altitude." Karl is the 1990 recipient of the Leonard Greenstone Diving Safety Award, the DAN/Rolex Diver of the Year for 1993, the 2004 Conrad Limbaugh Memorial Award for Scientific Diving Leadership and the 2008 California Scuba Service Award.