Underwater Lake Cleanup to Benefit the Divers Alert Network

Oklahoma Scuba of Norman sponsored a Lake Cleanup Fundraiser Dive over the weekend to help raise money for the Divers Alert Network (DAN). The event was held on Sunday, April 27, at Lake Murray’s Marietta Landing campground. The participants picked up beverage cans and bottles, food containers, and other discarded items from both underwater and lakeside to clean up the popular local dive site, and to win prizes donated by many of Oklahoma Scuba’s suppliers.

For collecting the most trash from the bottom of the lake, first-place dive team Casper and Angela Spurlin of Noble won a set of Scubapro Twin-Jet Max fins and a Mini Q40 dive light from Underwater Kinetics. Second place went to Ed Deuvall and Shawn Murray, who also won a pair of Twin-Jet Max fins and a Weight and Trim Classic system from Diving Unlimited International. Everyone who participated in the cleanup had a great time and went home with plenty of prizes.

The participants collected several hundred pounds of trash, mostly cans, bottles, and food containers, but you never know what you might find. The most unusual item collected was a metal tool box found by Robert Jacobs. The most disgusting items were the many diapers that had been discarded in the bushes.

The Divers Alert Network is a not-for-profit diving medical research organization headquartered at Duke University in North Carolina. DAN provides many valuable services to the scuba diving community, and in order to help support their efforts, dive clubs and scuba shops around the world c