Over a hundred volunteers (mostly children) and 50 divers took part in a blitz on rubbish in the sea.

They started on Saturday on the Playa de la China Gorda and then on the Sunday, Playa de los Berengueles (next to the Marina del Este).

But it wasn’t just about picking up rubbish or diving to bring it up because the kids had workshop activities on snorkelling, and species identification provided by the CUB and then one organised by the Aula del Mar, belonging to the University of Granada.

The organisation, Observadores del Mar mounted a workshop on micro-plastics on beaches and finally, Vertidos Cero Marnoba held one on how marine rubbish is categorised.

CUB and GEA divers worked at depths down to ten metres and were joined by spontaneous volunteer divers, as well. All told, three launches with tackled deeper waters in different areas around the Punta de la Mona looking for abandoned fishing nets & tackle on the bottom, as they are lethal traps for turtles and dolphins, etc.

All the rubbish collected from the seabed will be categorised by MARNOBA and entered into the global databank, which is used by the Grupo de Basuras Marinas here in Spain.

The two-day clean up concluded with around 100 kilos of rubbish retrieved.

(News: Almunecar/Herradura, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)