SAVE OUR OCEANS
The more places I dive, the more I realize that many of them were once beautiful and pure like this. I always wish I could do something to help the ocean and the fragile marine life that is becoming more vulnerable because of climate change and changing living conditions.
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We are Vietnamese dive buddies who love scuba diving and have loved marine life since we were young. We see how ocean life is being harmed by fishing nets caught on coral reefs, plastic pollution and trash that does not belong in the sea but stays on the ocean floor.
We organize underwater clean-up dives and remove abandoned fishing nets in many coastal areas across Vietnam, hoping the ocean can become blue and healthy again.
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Participants in these activities include certified divers and students from Viet Divers, both scuba divers and freedivers. We are especially proud of our junior divers, who regularly join us on many trips to help remove fishing nets.
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We often work together with national parks MPA such as Con Dao National Park, Nui Chua National Park, Nha Trang, and Phu Quoc, as well as organizations like IUCN, Conservation Diver, Bella Foundation, and Koral Asia Foundation.
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We clean up trash and remove fishing nets from the ocean for 1 simple reason: Because life underwater cannot speak for itself.
1/ Trash doesn’t just float away
What we throw into the sea stays there for years. Bottles, plastic bags, and fishing nets slowly break coral, trap animals, and turn beautiful reefs into silent danger zones.
2/ Ghost nets keep killing
Lost fishing nets don’t stop fishing. They continue to trap turtles, fish, rays, and crabs—day after day, with no escape.
3/ Corals feel every touch
Corals grow just a few centimeters a year. A net or plastic rubbing against them can destroy something that took decades to grow.
4/ The ocean gives us so much
It gives us oxygen, food, peace, and unforgettable memories. Cleaning it is simply our way of giving something back.
5/ Every small action matters
One bag lifted, one net removed, one animal freed—these moments may seem small to us, but they mean everything to the ocean.
PROTECT WHAT YOU LOVE. -
We regularly recover hundreds of kilograms of abandoned fishing nets from coral reefs.
We are looking for a partner to join us - someone who can help shred these nets into plastic pellets and mold them into practical dive items such as gear hooks, name tags or SMBs (Surface Marker Buoys).
Let’s turn ocean waste into tools that serve the diving community and protect the sea together.
dear ocean,
we care about you
More than 70% of the Earth is covered by ocean, but I only discovered this beauty after I started scuba diving and earned my certification in 2021. While diving to admire coral reefs and marine life in different countries and then coming back to Vietnam’s seas, I couldn’t ignore the changes of rising temperatures, ocean pollution, especially trash and abandoned fishing nets trapped beneath the water.
Sometimes I wonder what the ocean looked like 100 years ago? Or even 1,000 years ago? It must be clear blue water, healthy coral reefs, turtles and fish swimming freely everywhere. After 4 years of diving, knowing more fish by name, their behavior, their kind of home, their life style I began asking myself what I could do to give something back to Vietnam’s ocean. If possible, I wanted to help by collecting underwater trash and recycling it into something useful for daily life.
Big change since I joined a coral conservation course in Bali, Indonesia. During that weeks, my days were simple: eat, sleep, carry tanks, dive, observe coral reefs from 1 to 5 years old, help arrange underwater structures, collect broken coral and replant it. Those days made me truly understand how fragile the ocean is, and how much care the Ocean needs. That’s why I always join underwater cleanup dives with Viet Divers and fellow divers from Viet Divers - a long established dive center in Ho Chi Minh City that quietly and consistently spreads love and action for ocean protection.
We are looking for
more partners
We regularly recover hundreds of kilograms of abandoned fishing nets from coral reefs. We are looking for a partner to join us - someone who can help shred these nets into plastic pellets and mold them into practical dive items such as gear hooks, name tags or SMBs (Surface Marker Buoys).
Let’s turn ocean waste into tools that serve the diving community and protect the sea together.
PHU QUOC ISLAND 12/2025
In December, 2025 on Phu Quoc Island - Our team with many experienced divers closely connected with Viet Divers, Anh Khanh and Chi Khoa Le, together with our junior divers Châu, Quân, Khoa, Bách, Hùng, and Mirek - a experienced diver from Poland, has collected
160 kg of wet fishing nets, along with cages trapped in the coral reef at the North Island dive site. We also removed many plastic bottles, food packaging, single-use milk cartons, fishing hooks and other trash from the seabed.
We also rescued a few crabs that were trapped, with fishing nets tightly wrapped around their claws. It took a long time for our junior divers to carefully remove the nets and release the crabs back into the sea, fully free again.
Annual
Clean Up Dive
Both scuba divers and freedivers are welcome to join our underwater cleanup dives. No matter how much time or effort you contribute, we truly appreciate and remember every helping hand.
If you are a certified scuba diver at Advanced level or higher, with over 24 logged dives and good buoyancy control, you can help avoid damaging coral and work more effectively, especially in low-visibility conditions.
Whoever you are, you are always welcome to join us :)