{"id":639,"date":"2023-05-07T10:38:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T10:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bondsafarikovalam.com\/2023\/05\/07\/womens-day-with-a-difference\/"},"modified":"2023-05-07T10:38:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T10:38:54","slug":"womens-day-with-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bondsafarikovalam.com\/2017\/03\/Women-s-Day-with-a-Difference.html","title":{"rendered":"Women’s Day with a Difference!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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About 70% of the Earth is covered in water and the oceans hold about 96.5 percentages of all earths\u2019 waters. These reservoirs of unusual geographic features and artefacts form the largest museum exceeding the worlds\u2019 museums combined. But the malicious advances of man have jeopardized the oceans and its marine life. Oceans are suffering owing to the sweeping menace of plastics at the hands of mankind. At a time when plastic pollution finds its way into the oceans and its beaches, ten prominent women donned the scuba diving gears and decided to save the day.<\/p>\n

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This women\u2019s Day, Bond Safari Kovalam in association with Red FM 93.5 organised the first women\u2019s only ocean clean-up in India , a first of it\u2019s kind campaign to free the oceans from the clutches of plastic. This is the second initiative from Bond Safari Kovalam who had conducted \u2018Ocean Love\u2019, their campaign that intends to cleanse and extract plastic wastes from the ocean and thereby create awareness among the public regarding the consequences of marine pollution. The \u2018No Plastic Challenge\u2019 initiative by Red FM 93.5 that took place at Kovalam in Trivandrum went with the tag line \u2018From the land to the sea\u2019. Representatives from different arenas of profession were selected to lead the challenge and they proudly displayed their affection for the sea by holding placards that read \u201cThere is love and life in the water\u201d, \u201cThere\u2019s no planet B\u201d. Other than the Programme Head Parvathy and the RJs of Red FM 93.5, such as Lavanya , Chinchu and Anjali, the cause was fronted by K Vasuki IAS, Executive Director of the Kerala Suchitwa Mission, Dr. Divya Nair who is a Doctor by profession and also an actor, Neema an IT professional from Techno Park and Sobha Viswanath the social entrepenuer.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBig shopping underwater\u201d shouted RJ Lavanya pointing at her \u2018recycle bag\u2019 that was weighed down by plastic collected from the sea floor, as she emerges out of the water after what seems like a 15 minute dive but actually lasted for 35 minutes.. \u201cI wish I had stayed underwater because scuba diving is magic. You are enchanted by the beauty of everything underneath but to be awakened into reality by the floating pieces of plastic\u201d, she adds. \u201cThe sea belongs to the fishes and other marine life, then why are we humans destroying their natural habitat with our unwanted contributions?\u201d questioned Shobha after what is her second scuba diving experience and she deemed it as an unexplainable experience which can only be enjoyed by you alone! All you have to do is take a deep breath and plunge in. \u201cI\u2019m elated to have been given the opportunity to acknowledge the splendour of nature under the blue, however, in the back of my mind i kept asking, why we did this? It barely takes less than a minute to throw the waste into a dustbin. So let the marine creatures Live\u201d she remarked.<\/p>\n

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Scuba diving makes use of signals to ensure proper communication between the diver and the instructors. It is not necessary to have the knowledge of swimming for scuba diving and a diver will always be accompanied by the instructor underwater who will ensure a safe and easy dive. Through this mode of sport, Bond Safari Kovalam had managed to conduct a series of clean up in the area in association with other local organisations to create a problem free and plastic free surrounding. In fact their everyday dive commences with the activity of cleaning and collecting plastic. \u201cWe humans use over 300 million tons of new plastic every year. It is estimated that 10 to 12 million tons of plastic waste ends up in the oceans every year and plastic never goes way. It\u2019s a global issue that impacts our sea, our health and our well-being\u201d says Jackson Peter, Managing partner, Bond Safari. \u201cOver 600 species of marine life are known to suffer directly from plastic pollution. Thousands of seabirds, sea turtles, seals and other marine mammals are killed each year after ingesting plastic or getting entangled in it\u201d adds Jackson.<\/p>\n

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About half the world\u2019s population dwells in the coastal belts making it the cradle of culture, heritage and tourism. \u201cKerala has a very big coastal zone so coastal protection should be everyone\u2019s priority\u201d opines K Vasuki IAS who considers her diving experience to be a life changing one in ways that it mesmerised her with its sights and at the same time disturbed her with its pathetic plight. Showing the tiny piece of disintegrated piece of plastic from her bag in front of the camera, she adds that \u201cPlastic pollution doesn\u2019t just hurt marine species. It\u2019s also harmful to people. The plastic debris release toxic chemicals and when fish and other marine creatures ingest these particles, the toxicity and plastics find a way into our food chain and ultimately on our dinner plates!\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Rainforests are responsible for roughly one third of the Earth\u2019s oxygen but most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is produced by marine plants and comes from the oceans! Oceans not only produce oxygen but also absorb carbon dioxide from the earth\u2019s atmosphere, yet we give little credit to oceans for that. We are now suffocating the one that graces us with the breath of life. RJs Anjali and RJ Chinchu appeared with more of the \u2018suffocation\u2019 after their hunt. \u201cBy 2050, the amount of plastic will surpass the number of fishes in the oceans\u201d says RJ Anjali. \u201cIt is important not to throw away plastic but dispose it off properly\u201d suggests RJ Chinchu. Programming Head of Red FM, Parvathy also had plastic toys, straws, ATM card, big plastic bags to add to the collection of heaping plastic.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBeing a Doctor, I do understand that plastic is hazardous\u201d comments Dr. Divya who is disheartned by the irresponsibility and nonchalance of humans, and ashamed at the fact that a group of foreigners had helped to recover and discharge the litter that had been dispersed by us, during her last visit to Kovalam. \u201cBringing down the use of plastics might be the possible way out of this turmoil\u201d states Subin, Dive Instructor. Subin and his team of PADI certified divers routinely clean the Grove Beach and its vicinity, nonetheless the other beaches and the other parts of the sea are still contaminated.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is a novel way of campaigning and I\u2019m glad that I could be a part of this\u201d says Neema, professional from Techno Park. \u201cSince we have inhabited this planet, then why not make it clean for us and our co inhibitants?\u201d she adds. Since time immemorial man has been dependent on the ocean, but now the ocean is depending on us to salvage it. Though we live in a very modern epoch, our actions are still primitive. At a time when Trivandrum is being converted to a \u201cplastic free zone\u201d, Bond Safari has dedicated an entire year to oceans and its surroundings clean-up. With objectives to spread awareness and bring the attention of the public on the ill that we are causing to the marine life, they seek sustenance. \u201cWe need your support and we would appreciate if more people came in and helped us in our cleansing activities\u201d says Nikhil, Dive Instructor.<\/p>\n

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It was a Women\u2019s Day with a unique cause. It was a Women\u2019s Day with a difference. The adventurist women devoured a sense of achievement and satisfaction.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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