Dive for Earth Day 2010

AWARE divers across the globe took action to improve their local environment this Dive for Earth Day and throughout April 2010, celebrating Earth Day's 40th Anniversary.

Underwater environments are under numerous threats including pollution, debris, climate change, overfishing, and coral bleaching. Project AWARE supported over 300 grassroots events throughout April, to take action and help address these distressing underwater issues. Read just a few of the fun and inspiring activities that took place on Earth Day to make a difference.

What can you do now?

Organizers:

1. Send us your event photos to inspire others.

2. Stay involved and register your next underwater cleanup event with Project AWARE Foundation.

3. Donate - your support makes it all possible. We need your help to continue mobilizing dive teams for grassroots conservation.

Volunteers:

1. Participate in the next underwater activity near you.

2. Donate to support grassroots conservation and data collection projects to protect our fragile underwater resources worldwide.

Earth Day has raised environmental awareness on a global scale for forty years. For ten years divers have put the ocean on the Earth Day map. Globally the oceans cover seventy per cent of the planet's surface and contain ninety per cent of the mass of life on earth. Thousands of dive volunteers in more than 115 countries have helped protect underwater environments and educate local communities for Project AWARE's Dive for Earth Day.