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.
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Fourth Element
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
PADI
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
Halcyon
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
Aqua Lung
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
AP Diving
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
blue o two
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
Suunto
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
Global Underwater Explorers
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
BEUCHAT INTERNATIONAL
• 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
Mares
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
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
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
Dive Rite
We pledge to reduce our single use plastic packaging by 50% by World Oceans Day 2020. We will transition our packaging towards multiuse sustainable options as well as utilize recycled packaging. We are excited about making changes that will have a positive impact on the future of our oceans.
Email: info@diverite.com
Website: www.diverite.com
Tobago dive experience
eradicate lionfish from Trinidad & Tobago
Email: tri1007@hotmail.com
Ocean Extreme Dive and Travel
I will carry a goodie bag for the purpose of collecting trash with me anytime I go to any water for the purpose of diving no matter if I'm teaching or just for pleasure, plastic bags are the worst items that has ever been marketed in all countries.
Email: pmccalpin@gmail.com
Website: www.oceanextreme.com
Aquarius Scuba Diving Centre, Inc.
When you train a diver to dive safely, they tend to care about the ocean, about its conservation and ecology, and about its preservation. The more people that we can bring in as certified divers and teach them these things, the better off that stewardship will be for the oceans.
Email: diving@aquariusscuba.com
Website: www.aquariusscuba.com
Rich Coast Diving
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
The Dirty Dozen
By the end of 2019, The Dirty Dozen will be completely free of single-use plastic in all its operations. As part of our ever-expanding environmental policy we're working in a global alliance with Siren Fleet, blue o two, and Master Liveaboards. We're on-board in the fight against plastic pollution.
Email: arngrimssonaron@gmail.com
Website: www.thedirtydozen.org
DIVER Magazine (UK)
Having been involved with many significant marine conservation initiatives over the past 50 years, including co-founding The Marine Conservation Society, DIVER Magazine (UK) is delighted to support Mission 2020 by committing to eliminate all plastic-based wrapping from postal and newsstand copies of the magazine by World Oceans Day 2020.
Email: nigel@divermag.co.uk
Website: www.divernet.com
World Diving Lembongan
At World Diving Lembongan we pledge to continue our efforts to reduce single-use plastic in all of our operations. We use glassware, banana leaf food wraps, reusable drinks bottles and storage containers. We have banned plastic straws. We support cleanups through action and make monthly donations to local recycling operations.
Email: info@world-diving.com
Website: www.world-diving.com
MORE AQUA SHOW ( MAS )
The MORE AQUA SHOW underwater activities fair (March 2019 SPAIN) will disseminate the pollution problems of the oceans and what the plastic implies in the marine environment through conferences to raise awareness of the importance of oceans on our planet and the importance of the human being on its conservation.
Email: gestion@feriamas.com
M.D.I MERCURY CO. LTD.
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
Aquatic Adventures, Inc.
We pledge to reduce our use of single-use plastics. By 2020 we'll have eliminated plastic bags from our store and stopped using plastic utensils at our events. We love our lakes and pledge to do more to keep them clean. Aquatic Adventures, Inc. supports Mission 2020.
Email: staff@diveaai.com
Website: diveaai.com
Euro-Divers Maldives
Euro-Divers Maldives encourages all dives not to touch anything under water, we do not feed any fish under water, we teach our divers to be buoyant under water in order to avoid any contact with corals. We care about the ocean and engage in beach and ocean clean up's!
Email: susanne@euro-divers.com
Website: www.euro-divers.com
3D2Real
At 3D2real.be we only use for our 3D products 90% recycled plastic from pet bottles to make custom cave markers . By the year 2020 we pledge to find a solution to use 100% recycled plastic.
Email: info@3d2real.be
Website: www.3d2real.be
Paralenz
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
Sydney Dive Safari
Sydney Dive Safari pledge to source all our products from suppliers with an environmentally conscious intention by 2020. We are committed to work with brands that are adopting sustainable alternatives to preserve and protect our ocean environment.
Email: info@sydneydivesafari.com.au
Website: www.sydneydivesafari.com.au
Transformation Scuba
Transformation Scuba pledges to make ocean conservation the highest priority by transforming divers into caring stewards of the aquatic realm. As a 100% AWARE partner we will lower our carbon footprint, reduce waste, remove marine debris on every dive, use reef friendly sunscreens, and live by the motto #TransformYourOcean !
Email: transformationscuba@gmail.com
Website: transformationscuba.com
Scuba Travel Scandinavia
We pledge to steer travellers and divers towards businesses committed to sustainable practices. Since 2017, our office has been carbon neutral and our staff pledge to avoid using single-use-plastic From 2019 all of our guests flights will also be climate-compensated, funded by Scuba Travel Scandinavia.
Email: info@scubatravel.se
Website: www.scubatravel.se
Mundo Acuático Costa Rica
Clean a spot diving at Costa Rica
Email: luis@mundoacuatico.cr
Urban Water Odyssey
Living in a big city, we drink the water coming from the great lakes that will then flow to the oceans We pledge to continue to clean the river, Reduce, Reuse and advocate for a closer to mother earth way of living From the source to the Oceans.
Email: info@urbanwaterodysssey.com
Website: www.urbanwaterodyssey.com
LIGHT FOR ME
Light For Me, part of Tecdiving group, pledges to continue our policy of recycling and re-using plastic and cardboard packaging when shipping out orders whenever possible. We have already started implementing changes in Tecdiving manufacturing facility to reduce our environmental footprint both in production processes and in everyday activities.
Email: info@tecdiving.pl
Website: light-for-me.com
DeeperBlue.com
As a digital-only business, we already have a reduced plastic footprint. We pledge to be completely plastic free in all our marketing and promotional material by Worlds Ocean Day 2020. In addition, we will continue our mission to educate the world's divers about plastic reduction.
Email: hello@deeperblue.com
Website: www.deeperblue.com
Cortez Expeditions
Cortez Expeditions strives to ensure that our business practices and services are environmentally sustainable, to safeguard the ocean environment for generations to come. Well before 2020, all our facilities and boats will be 100% free of disposable plastic bottles and single use plastic.
Email: info@cortezexpeditions.com
Website: www.cortezexpeditions.com
Goby Divers and Watersports
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
Ocean Spirit Scuba Diving
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
Adrenalin Snorkel & DIve
Adrenalin Snorkel & Dive is a ECO-certified tour operator operating in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. We are committed to reducing our environmental footprint and have taken steps to ensure that such as using resuable cups and plates on board.
Email: marketing@adrenalindive.com.au
Website: adrenalindive.com.au
Octopus Divers Dahab
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
Diver City SCUBA Inc.
We will focus on training divers to a higher level of skill and environmental awareness by providing; opportunities to be involved in beach and dive-site cleanups locally and globally, and access to more sustainable products to our customers through our increased support of companies whose mission aligns with our own.
Email: jacqui@divercityscuba.ca
Website: www.divercityscuba.ca
Divebase
As a digital company, we pledge to reduce our carbon footprint by 2020. All our servers will be powered by renewable energy and our office will eliminate single-use plastic. Furthermore, we will spread the word and educate as much as possible.
Email: support@diveba.se
Website: www.diveba.se
Hugyfot
No more single use packaging. Our housings are made primarily from aluminium, the parts currently made from plastic will be replaced by 3D printed parts by 2020. The 3D printing material is made from formic acid, which is entirely biologically degradable.
Email: jutha@hugyfot.com
Website: www.hugyfot.com