(Original)Don’t let your dives go to waste! Grab your mesh bag, scuba gear and data card to make #EveryDiveaSurveyDive What is Dive Against Debris? Dive Against Debris is AWARE’s flagship citizen-science program, empowering scuba divers to remove marine debris from the ocean and report data on the types, quantities, and locations of materials collected. As the only underwater debris data collection program of its kind, Dive Against Debris both improves the health of ocean ecosystems through localized volunteer efforts and provides valuable information about underwater debris to help inform policy change. What issue is it tackling? It is thought that ~70% of all debris and ~94% of plastics entering the ocean sinks to the seafloor. However, there have been gaps in this data regarding seafloor marine debris – a gap that scuba divers are perfectly positioned to fill! That’s why we have developed a defined survey protocol and data reporting process so every scuba diver can become a citizen scientist and contribute to the largest global underwater debris database.