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promoting beach cleaning education.
On September 29, the committee and a
lot of diving lovers co-hosted beach cleaning
activity near Gueishan Island, which was an
important fishery in northeastern Taiwan.
All participants dived in groups to clear the
discarded fishing nets. At the end of the day,
each person used four diving cylinders after
disposal of those nets, whose amount is as
much as a bow of the boat. This event was
recorded by a diver in charge of underwater
photography, and then the film named "Taiwan
Dive Sites" was posted on YouTube for people
to search and watch.
On October 16, another beach cleaning
activity was hosted in Chaojing Park,
which was locating in Keelung City in the
northeastern part of Taiwan. They regarded
this activity as a beach cleaning course, and
the main goal was to promote the related
knowledge and concepts to the public and find beach. In this way, everyone could understand
a place that was suitable for the whole family the process, division of labor, tasks of beach
to take part in learning clear-up together. So, cleaning.
the learning classroom of the activity was Finally, it was hoped that through this
chosen in 8K theater of the National Museum beach cleaning and sea cleaning service
of Marine Science & Technology (NMMST), activity, more people could understand that too
which a professor taught those participating much packaging will bring a huge burden to
Rotarians there. Then, all participants were the earth. And everyone must start to change
divided into 15 groups and evenly distributed their living habits, enhance environmental
to different areas, and each group was guided awareness, and make their big effort to protect
by a teaching assistant while cleaning the our earth.

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