Kidz at Sea’ begins Debris Mapping as part of the SXM Coastal CleanUp Project with the support of R4CR. | SMN NEWS

PHILIPSBURG:--- The SXM Coastal CleanUp Project from Kidz at Sea has started its underwater mapping activities funded by the Resources for Community Resilience-R4CR Grant Scheme. The first half of this project focused on training residents of St. Maarten in the dive courses needed to execute an underwater clean-up of garbage found along the coastline in the marine environment. With their training complete, divers have begun the work to collect and catalogue data on the debris from Hurricane Irma, which still litters the coastline of St. Maarten.

Throughout the first part of the SXM Coastal CleanUp project, several residents were given ...

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