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Earth Day Cleanup Kohala, Hawai’i
April 22, 2023 @ 8:30 am - 1:00 pm
With Keep Puako Beautiful and South Kohala Reef Alliance Shark Stewards invites you to a Tailgate style cleanup of the facility, beach, land and water April 22, 20223.
Watch for Angie and the Shark Stewards flag!
- Saturday 4/22/23 at the Puako Boat Ramp 8 AM to 12 noon
- Community Celebrates with an Earth Day Cleanup of facility, trails, water and roadsides in the Puako Beach area.
- Beach & Water Cleanup, Exhibits, Giveaways, Marine Debris art booth and more
- Set up 8 Am- look for Angie and the Shark Stewards flag.
- 8:30 to 9 AM Cleanup Safety & Education Partner Shares
- *Active Cleanup from 9:15 AM to 10:45 AM.
- 10:15-10:45 Return to Surf Park weigh trash, collect data sheets, and sort trash
- 10:45 Eco Education, Hydration & snacks available
*Keep Puako & South Kohala Reef Alliance will provide cleaners with waivers, data cards, supplies, buckets, pickers, and gloves etc.
Join us on the Ala Kahahaki “Trail by the Sea” to protect a national treasure. “Human survival depended on extensive cross-country networks that enabled gathering of food and water and harvesting of essential materials”(Deborah Chang).
Blue Wilderness Dive Adventures will help as they have many times in the past.
Donated Tank air pick up and return: at Blue Wilderness Dive shop in Puako;
Rent dive gear or reserve tank of air: 808 886-0980,
Must bring valid dive card and return tanks or gear after finished along with rentals to BWDA store.
Divers should bring a cleanup dive bag.
-Recycling: NOAA Fishing line, Cigarette litter program;recovered fishing line and cigarette litter are documented, entered into the TrashBlitz database and sent to the mainland to be made into plastic pellets used in manufacturing.
Kohala Divers Contact: 808 882-7774 Email [email protected]
RSVP you will attend [email protected]: Confirm Land or Water or both if you have not.
Clean up is at the Puako ramp. All divers are welcome! free tanks from puako dive shop. Sam & Mia are going to dive for sharkstewards, it be great if we could have a sharkstewards team diving together.
Link with rental prices bellow, tanks are free in you mention earth day clean up! Call in advance to reserve, number and address is in the bottom of the page.