Formation 2013 Location Worldwide | Purpose Education | |
Parent organization Ocean Recovery Alliance | ||
Oceanic Big 5 is a project of Ocean Recovery Alliance to encourage the five biggest athletic users of the ocean to spend a day cleaning up the environment that is used for their activity. The top five sport users of the ocean environment who can be "ambassadors" for the waters they use are: surfers, sailors, swimmers, divers and paddlers.
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Goal
To engage the oceanic sports community in World Oceans Day and increase awareness about the importance of clean and healthy oceans. Surfers, sailors, swimmers, divers and paddlers can be ambassadors to the community about the health of the ocean and issues such as pollution.
How it works
Athletic teams, recreational clubs, or just groups of friends that wish to be part of the "Oceanic Big 5" are encouraged to organize a cleanup day "in, on or under" the water, in the week of World Oceans Day, June 8. Ocean Recovery Alliance offers groups guidelines for a group cleanup here and will collate information on waste collection efforts. Groups should collect, recycle and properly dispose of non-organic waste and document quantities of waste collected by reporting to Ocean Recovery Alliance.