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Tom Romalewski writes:
>I can't understand how divers who enjoy the oceans so much can be so
>irresponsible as to litter it with NON-biodegradable styrofoam coffee
>cups and tennis balls.  I have never seen this practice before, but I
>would imagine that no effort is made to recover this floating debris.
>
>....

You are right, it would be very irresponsible.

The boat that I know that uses tennis balls, recovers them.  The use of
styrofoam coffee cups is common, and is described in Gary Gentile's book
"Advanced Wreck Diving Guide."  I strongly suspect that the New York/New Jersey
wreck diving community did not originally recover the cups.  I believe that
folks do now, since to do otherwise would be against the law.

Safe Diving

Wrolf

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