GUWAA (Global Underwater Awareness Association) has launched the world's first professional-ecological diving team with only one mission - to review (inspection dive) seas, rivers, and lakes, find garbage and toxic waste, clean up and save marine life from pollution.
Each diver in the team has a different history of diving but they were all gathered together by Kristijan Curavić (CEO). S.P.E.E.D. UNIT launched in Monaco with Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation on January 16, 2013.
These divers are former anti and counter-terrorism officers, instructors, commercial divers, professional athletes and former champions in diving. Their common goal is to protect, conserve and clean water in the world.
We can say that this is the most experienced team of divers when it comes to cleaning underwater. Together they removed over 100 tons of waste with their own hands and strength, without the help of machines. Machines can harm marine soil, vegetation, and microorganisms below the surface. It is therefore important that every diver manually collects every piece of garbage. These divers will bring hundreds of tons of toxic waste from the seas, lakes, and rivers around the world each year. Instead of sitting at conferences or meetings and discuss issues, they will raise awareness through hard work and results.
They will shock the audience and show the destruction of seafloor that was done by human hands to our seas, lakes, and rivers. They will inspire younger generations and millions of divers to do the same all over the world. A new era of conservation and protection of water begins with S.P.E.E.D. UNIT. How are they differ from other cleanup actions?
Each S.P.E.E.D. UNIT diver helmet carries a camera that captures all the action of cleaning. These recordings are essential for the very records and can be used on a daily basis for comparison of the seabed from year to year. The images also show the situation before and after the campaign. The amount of waste that has been cleaned and left behind, as well as the state of vegetation and wildlife. In addition to cleaning, these divers create a large archive of images that will surely be used in further research by oceanographers.
S.P.E.E.D. UNIT divers work daily on their endurance and stamina. Why? This is the only team of divers in the world who have been trained for entry into and cleaning of inaccessible areas. Access to Blue Lake is only possible with repelling (by going down a rope) or jumping out of a helicopter. These divers can do it, that is a great advantage over others. Thus, their physical skills contribute more to the environment. Attractiveness. These divers attract the attention of all who find themselves in their clean-up actions. The same equipment, the same movements, the same goal.
