{"id":623,"date":"2023-05-07T10:38:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T10:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bondsafarikovalam.com\/2023\/05\/07\/a-pledge-taken-underwater-the-new-india-express\/"},"modified":"2023-05-07T10:38:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T10:38:52","slug":"a-pledge-taken-underwater-the-new-india-express-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bondsafarikovalam.com\/2017\/04\/A-pledge-taken-underwater-The-New-India-Express.html","title":{"rendered":"A pledge taken underwater The New India Express"},"content":{"rendered":"

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KOCHI:\u00a0It was a formal conference, but not one of their routine black-suit affairs. To start with, the five CEOs sat around a table underwater, communicating through hand signals and placards. And they were there for a cause – a campaign to stop underwater pollution.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was a great experience taking the pledge to protect marine life while feeling the ocean all around,\u201d says Dr Shyam Kumar, one of the participants of world\u2019s first underwater CEO conference.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0The other CEOs who dived into the deep waters of Arabian Sea include Hema Menon, the Centre Head of UST Global, Dinesh P \u00a0Thambi, Vice President and Delivery Centre Head, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Rony Thomas Zacaria, CEO of Avon Mobility Solution Pvt Ltd, Chennai, and Rajagopal Iyer, CEO UDS group of Hotels.<\/p>\n

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The unique event was held at held at Grove Beach, Kovalam, jointly organised by Bond Safari and Udaya Samudra.\u201cMore than three billion people in the world are dependent on marine bio-diversity for their livelihood. And it\u2019s everyone\u2019s duty to prevent anything that affects the equilibrium, says Dinesh P Thampi. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Subin, chief dive instructor at Bond Safari, Kovalam, trained all the participants of the conference who spent more than 30 minutes under ocean.<\/p>\n

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Chairs and table, specially designed \u00a0to the specifications of marine architecture, were first transported. \u201cPeople should be made aware of how oceans are getting polluted in various ways,\u201d adds Dr Shyam Kumar.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\nThe conference was held as part of Ocean Love campaign, an initiative \u00a0conceived to stop marine pollution and generate awareness. <\/p>\n

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\u201cThough extensive underwater cleaning is on for a couple of years, the presence of plastic is increasing. It\u2019s a material unknown to marine life and the micro form of plastic is consumed by various water species.<\/p>\n

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Ultimately it ends up in our food, creating too many health hazards for seafood lovers,\u201d says Jackson of Bond Safari, the organisers. Every year tonnes of plastic waste end up in the sea killing seabirds, turtles, seals and other marine mammals that ingest the plastic debris.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs the effects of marine pollution are not visible to us, awareness about the ocean is the need of the hour,\u201d says Rajagopal Iyer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Most are not aware of the fact that a huge per cent of the oxygen we consume comes from ocean, a much greater amount compared to what we get from rainforests.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s the planktons that absorb the carbon dioxide we produce and their extinction can wreck the whole ecological system,\u201d adds Jackson. The Ocean Love campaign is planning to execute a number of long-term plan programmes to protect the ocean and marine life in coming days.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u00a0By\u00a0Express News Service\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n

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