Acapulco (EFE) .- More than a year after the devastating passage of Hurricane Otis, Acapulco divers continue with cleaning at the seabed on the island of La Roqueta and removed two tons of fiberglass waste of vessels of boat boats with glass background.
Around 25 divers cleaned both Caletilla beach, as well as went to the island of La Roqueta, where weeks before they had removed some pieces and waste from boats.
Speaking to EFE, the president of the Cooperativa beacas United Caleta y Caletilla, Rigoberto Palma Muñoz, said Thursday that they decided to clean on the island because they already had a lot of waste, especially in the seabed.
“We took about two tons of boat waste from the island, which in the hurricane were destroyed and gathered the garbage, but it was already playing to take it out to have the beach clean,” he said.
Even the diver said that these pieces of garbage is what they could get in a depth of 10 meters and about 12 meters from the strip of sand, but they cannot do more because they lack more professional equipment to do better cleaning.
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“We need equipment, oxygen tanks to be able to perform more thoroughly what we have been doing, tanks, compensating vests, which deals to lower and take out everything inside, because if there is a little garbage still inside the depth, about 15 meters deep, but you can lower with better equipment,” he said.
Other divers, such as Juan de los Santos, who stayed in Caletilla beach, cleaned part of the marine depth with their equipment and the air of their lungs because it was what they could do to remove materials such as fiberglass.
“We focus on the beach, in about five or six meters deep to get the garbage that you get to the area of tourists, then the bottles go, all the plastic, all the things that remain after a visit goes inside the sea, the waves are taken and everything must be taken out,” he said.
Nautical service providers say that despite the days and weeks they continue to permanently draw trash, plastic bottles, unicel plastic and other products that are harmful to marine species.
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“We take out many glass bottles, beer, plastics such as holders, spoons, usually all the garbage that comes with tourism, everything that comes to eat snacks and take out all that,” he said.
The worker even explained that with his little team and “lung” is how these cleanings are doing, the important thing is to help and improve the sea, especially for tourists to find the clean beaches.
“Our tools are fins, viewfinder, snorkeling but more than anything lung and a chingo (much) heart (…) work in tourism to generate my income but I am also doing something for the environment, by the planet,” he said.
The holiday period of Holy Week is one of the most important for tourism, since a hotel occupancy is expected above 80% in the almost 15,000 rooms available and an arrival of 200,000 tourists.
With EFE information
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