Caymanian Compass
January 26, 2012
January 26, 2012
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High
school students are taking up scuba and diving into Cayman’s waters while also
doing their bit for the environment.
Clifton
Hunter High School teacher Hamish Hamilton and 16-year-old student Joseph
Burey, armed with trash bags and scuba gear, headed underwater near the wreck
of the Cali in George Town harbour Tuesday to pick up litter and spruce up the
popular dive and snorkelling site.
The
cleanup is part of an initiative to teach school students to dive and to give
back to the community at the same time.
Mr.
Hamilton, who is a certified dive instructor who teaches his own students and
members of the High Schools Dive Club to scuba dive, hopes to do a similar
cleanup with more students at the Lobster Pot dive shop soon.
“We’re
certifying students to dive and getting Caymanian kids into the water, which
hardly any of them do,” said Mr. Hamilton, as he and Joseph suited up outside
Divers Down dive shop, which provided free air tanks and weights for Tuesday’s
dive. Read whole story here.
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