The organisations in our dive community supporting this project with their Mission 2020 pledge are putting the future of the oceans ahead of simply making a profit – they are making significant changes to their business and their impacts on the environment. Read some of their pledges below and submit your own here.
By World Oceans Day 2020 we will eliminate single use plastic packaging from our products. We will continue to develop new products and redevelop existing ones using recycled material. We will become truly OceanPositive.
Email: info@fourthelement.com
Website: www.fourthelement.com
As PADI drives toward a fully-integrated digital learning system, we lessen our dependency on packaging, thereby minimizing the plastic footprint of hundreds of thousands of divers every year. We will further reduce plastic waste across our supply chain and rally our 6,600 dive centers and resorts to reduce single-use plastics.
Email: pillarsofchange@padi.com
Website: padi.com
At Halcyon Dive Systems, we pledge to reduce our plastic and carbon footprint by 2020. We are committed to: Eliminate single-use plastic packaging of all our products; Significantly increase the use of recycled goods; Sponsor Ghost Fishing cleanups around the world and power the Halcyon manufacturing facility with solar energy.
Email: info@halcyon.net
Website: www.halcyon.net
At Aqua Lung, we are continuing our commitment to eliminate single-use plastic packaging on all of our products worldwide, whenever & wherever possible, finding sustainable alternatives everywhere we can. We will continue to further our use and implementation of renewable energy sources at our facilities across the globe.
Email: info@aqualung.com
Website: www.aqualung.com
We pledge that by World Ocean’s Day 2020 we will continue to improve in all areas of our current “Ocean Friendly” policy to: Recycle, Re-use and Reduce wherever possible; only ever use biodegradable, compostable and/or recyclable packaging materials and reduce our ecological footprint wherever possible.
Email: info@apdiving.com
Website: www.apdiving.com
Our fleet vessels will be completely single-use plastic free by the end of 2019. Single-use plastic water bottles have already been removed from our Red Sea fleet. We pledge to minimise pollution on our boats and in our worldwide offices, achieving this whilst educating yet also respecting local communities.
Email: info@blueotwo.com
Website: www.blueotwo.com
We will minimize single-use plastics in packaging and select durable materials to ensure a long lifetime for products and capability for maintenance. We will optimize deliveries and offset carbon emissions from all deliveries. Through our certified, audited environmental-management-system we are, and continue to be, committed to save our common playground.
Email: info@suunto.com
Website: suunto.com
At GUE, we pledge to launch an annual GUE Cleanup Event. We feel we can have the greatest impact by utilizing our network of divers in a worldwide cleanup of our waters. We hope to power our office with solar, will continue to recycle, and eliminate any single use plastic.
Email: info@gue.com
Website: www.gue.com
• Establishment of a recycling system for paper, cups, plastic bottles and cans inside Beuchat • We plan to stop using non-reusable plastic packaging within 3 years • Struggle against ecosystem impoverishment by supporting an initiative that helps to preserve marine ecosystems against overfishing and coastal habitat losses
Email: ctorres@beuchat.fr
Website: www.beuchat-diving.comgb
The sea has always been at the heart of Mares. By World Oceans Day 2020 we pledge to reduce our environmentally unfriendly packaging including single-use plastic by 70%, adopting sustainable alternatives and minimising waste. We will also innovate techniques in product development to reduce our environmental impact in the future.
Email: info@mares.com
Website: www.mares.com
SANTI Diving is constantly working on improvement in the field of environment protection and implementation of the new actions aiming at the oceans and planets preservation. By 2020 we plan to replace the plastic bags by biodegradable ones, increase the effort to find the suppliers delivering the the recyclable elements.
Email: katarzyna@santidiving.com
Website: www.santidiving.com
SubGravity is committed to avoid single use plastic where there is an alternative, sustainable option available. We will work towards a 75% or more reduction in single use plastic by the year 2020. Additionally SubGravity is committed to continue recycling by shipping orders in previously used packaging whenever possible.
Email: info@sub-gravity.com
Website: www.sub-gravity.com
We take the pledge and choose to "reduce, reuse and recycle" and refuse disposable plastic whenever and wherever possible. Thus ensuring that the Earth’s oceans and natural resources are not irreparably harmed.
Email: scuba@scubaevolution.co.za
Website: www.scubaevolution.co.za
For us in AdrenaLTika the oceans’ future is very important. We want to limit plastic, yet we are forced in medicine to use disposable items daily. All the more we say 100% NO PLASTIC in our office. No more plastic cups, bags, straws, teaspoons. Baby steps change the world.
Email: biuro@adrenaltika.pl
Website: www.adrenaltika.pl
At Dive and Travel we will continue to eliminate single-use-plastic wherever possible within our day-today operations while simultaneously encouraging our partners to do the same. We will also ensure our clients are made aware of those vessels, resorts, and dive centers who are committed to being OceanPositive.
Email: mail@diveand.travel
Website: diveand.travel
We pledge to continue to only use recycled paper products for stationary and in-store promotions. Dolphin Scuba proactively encourages our customers to reduce their plastic use by offering re-useable, ocean-friendly alternatives.
Email: dolphin@dolphinscuba.com.au
Website: www.dolphinscuba.com.au
At Blue Bay Dive & Watersports, we pledge to continue the monthly Dive Against Debris cleanups at our adopted house reefs. We can make a difference in Curacao by utilizing our network of divers to inspire locals, tourists and other dive professionals to take action and spread awareness!
Email: dive@bluebay-curacao.com
Website: www.diveshopcuracao.comen
Aquatic Adventures pledges to increase our environmental projects. Conservation is a cornerstone of our training & we carry out monthly clean up dives with the help of our club members. By 2020 we commit to strengthen this focus with more conservation projects & by supporting vendors who maintain sustainable practices.
Email: rowville@aquaticadventures.com.au
Website: www.aquaticadventures.com.au
We have our 2 hour power cleanups where we organize a major beach cleanup with the local community. We also sell caps made out of recycled plastic, ocean safe sunscreen, shampoo bars, metal drinking flasks & straws. We serve drinks in recycled cups on our boats since 2006.
Email: dive@richcoastdiving.com
Website: www.richcoastdiving.com
We will ensure that in the course of our business and personal lives, we will fully support the drive to avoid single-use plastics. We will continue to remain a 100% AWARE member, in so doing, contributing financially to the conservation of the Aquatic environment.
Email: dive@wreckandreefscuba.com
Website: www.wreckandreefscuba.com
We are committed to training environmentally-considerate divers and encouraging responsible diving practices through conservation-based educational events. We pledge to protect our local artificial reef structures and reduce marine pollution in our adopted dive site. We will strive to reduce and responsibly manage our waste, focusing on reducing single-use plastics.
Email: trawangan@bluemarinedive.com
We take the pledge and choose to reduce, reuse and recycle disposable plastic whenever and wherever possible We refuse disposable plastic when possible. We use exclusively on-line training materials. We clear waste from dive-sites when visiting. We educate our students to be environmental friendly and show respect for nature.
Email: contact@seahorsedivers.nl
Website: www.seahorsedivers.nl
Our dive centre is committed to raising awareness about ocean conservation and pledge to do our utmost with regards to reducing single use plastic, protecting our local waters by adopting a dive site, organising Dive Against Debris clean-ups and selling plastic free merchandise We are slowly integrating Padi E-Learning also.
Email: divewise.marketing@gmail.com
Website: www.divewise.com.mt
The Paralenz pledge to the ocean, is to keep all Paralenz packaging as produced today with cardboard and sealed with paper tape only. Aside from this, we pledge to continue our affiliation program to encourage collaboration between dive centers and NGOs as well as channeling funds towards ocean conservation.
Email: jds@paralenz.com
Website: www.paralenz.com
No plastic uses. A Project to clean the ocean. We adopt a dive site. We introduce new product sustainables. Carry a bag with us during the dives to collect waste from the ocean. We try to transmit our philosophy to our costumers.
Email: info@buceoislascanarias.com
Website: www.scubanana.es
The Nova Southeastern University Academic Diving Program pledges the following towards saving our oceans: Encourage all divers to have their own drinking bottle as part of their standard dive kit, to use coral safe sunscreens, and to leave all dive sites cleaner than they were when they arrived.
Email: tclark@nova.edu
Website: www.nova.edunsuaquaticsscuba-diving.html
Our sustainable journey started in 2018 with banning single-use plastic. By World's Ocean Day 2020, we pledge to extend fully our Zero Waste program. Also, in order to increase environment awareness in our diving community, we will organize local actions as beach clean-ups, educational film screenings and lectures.
Email: amandine@xdivers.com.br
Website: www.xdivers.com.br
We pledge to reduce our carbon footprint as much as possible and encourage others to do the same. From eliminating single-use plastic and offering alternatives to reducing flights and product shipping. By promoting and working together with partners that focus on marine conservation we join hands for our oceans.
Email: marlies@diveoclock.com
Website: www.diveoclock.com
Our philosophy is to provide high-quality diving services, complying with all ISO standards, safety and comfort requirement We provide special attention to the preservation of the environment and underwater heritage. Our goal is to be an environmentally friendly company. This year we were the recipients of the Green Star Award.
Email: info@easydivers.pt
Website: http:www.easydivers.pt
We pledge to remove any polluting and useless material during our training courses to encourage the use of digital offline materials. We will continue to teach our students good diving practices for the respect of the environment whether underwater and out of the water by cleaning dive sites.
Email: nico@plongeetecsuisse.ch
Website: plongeetecsuisse.ch
Sunset SCUBA pledges to continue to use PADI eLearning®, reducing the carbon footprint from printed plastics. As well as stressing environmental awareness and conservation practices on every dive.
Email: sf146781@gmail.com
Underwater Connection is committed to ending single use plastic by educating divers about the negative impact plastics are having on our oceans and how we can eliminate them from our day to day life. Share it with all your classes and customers. You’d be surprised how many join the cause
Email: underwaterconnection@yahoo.com
Website: www.underwaterconnection.com
Octopus Divers Dahab is all about diving with a focus on having a good impact on the Ocean Planet We strive to educate our staff and guests about the importance of keeping our ocean healthy not just to keep diving fun and sustainable, but for our very existence as humans.
Email: drdia79@yahoo.com
Website: octopusdiversdahab.com
At M.D.I Mercury Co. Ltd. we pledge to reduce single use plastic, ban plastic straws at work and our personal lives and use things of continuous and multiple use. We pledge to increase environmental awareness for our planet's protection against plastic pollution through our FB Page, Instagram and website.
Email: lefteris.orphanides@mercury.com.cy
Website: www.mercury.com.cy
We are committed to eliminating all single-use plastics in our dive operation. We are eliminating these on our boats, and continue to work with retailers to eliminate the single-use plastic packaging they send. We will lead Dive Against Debris surveys to remove marine debris. We are committed to ocean conservation.
Email: info@sailcaribbeandivers.com
Website: www.sailcaribbeandivers.com
By 2020 we pledge to have minimized single-use plastic usage at our facility and at dive events. We will offer preference to suppliers who offer alternatives to single-use packaging materials, seek community partners to promote conservation and ocean debris awareness, and offer customers more opportunities to participate in cleanup events.
Email: cojodiving@gmail.com
Website: www.cojodiving.com
Joining Mission 2020, DiveStock commits to carry out an environmentally more conscious workflow. We will continue to carry out yearly beach cleanups and we will start off reducing single-use plastic both from our packaging and office daily usage. We believe in collective power and consistency.
Email: info@divestock.com
Website: www.divestock.com
At Blue Ocean Network, our mission is the word about sustainable business practices to our community in articles, social media, seminars and events. We pledge to steer travelers and recreational divers towards businesses who are committing to sustainable practices. At BON, we have eliminated all single use plastic.
Email: laurie@blueocean.net
Website: www.blueocean.net
We pledge to use no plastic in the products that we sell, as well as to reduce as much as possible in our daily operations. We pick up every single piece of plastic trash that we find underwater and we encourage our divers to do the same.
Email: info@purpledivepenida.com
Website: www.purpledivepenida.com
At Goby Divers we pledge to avoid plastic wherever possible and every month we will hold a reef clean-up event in which we involve local kids to make them aware and to remove waste from the ocean.
Email: bernardo@goby-divers.com
Website: www.goby-divers.com
Mauritius has excellent clean drinkable tap water yet many people are drinking bottled water. Plastic bottles are our biggest polluter. The Tap Water Revolution installs drinking fountains in Mauritius. With our publicity machine we hope help them install drinking fountains in all the major shopping centres as our 2020 project.
Email: info@oceanspirit.com
Website: www.osdiving.com