Hi from James and Del.
We have been recreational dives for a number of years and travelled to various parts of the world to explore the wonders of the Big Blue. Like many other diving enthusiasts, throughout our journeys we have shore dived and boat dived on our own and in groups from our own Dive Club and local Dive Schools. We were in Malta, where we had just finished a great days shore dive, sat around the bar table in the sun with cold beer in hand talking to our guide. He was a great guy, passionate about keeping the oceans clean and was heavily involved in clean-up dives around Malta. As we chatted we became more and more interested in helping with these dives and started looking at ways that we could do even the smallest bit to help reduce the waste materials polluting our oceans.
The following day we headed out into a dive in Valetta Harbour together with our guide and ten other members of our Club. As we arrived at the site and unloaded the transports we had the usual palava of working out who was on air, who was on Nitrox and trying to match the scuffed tape labels to each diver. Once we had sorted that out and got into the water we spent the next hour blowing bubbles at about 9m gazing in disgust at the debris and general detritis sitting at the bottom of the harbour. When we got back onto dry land we noticed that atleast half of the tanks no longer had the customary gaffer tape and masking tape mix labels on them.
Now, about then, we could have said “Huh, they need to buy better tape !” but instead we had a light-bulb moment and though “Why on earth are we using gaffer tape or masking tape at all in the 21st Century ?” Polluting the oceans, wasting resources and industry/climate change aren’t seen as myths any longer.
So we did a bit of maths (OK, it was only a really LITTLE bit as the Chisk was good and cold and now flowing rather to well!)
We worked out that if you and your buddy dive twice a week for say 40 weeks a year and you dive twice a day, that’s 160 dives a year, each. OK, so that bit was easy. If you then use 200mm of tape on each tank that’s a 32 METRES length of tape you are using and potentially dumping in the sea every year ……. EACH. …. and how many “you and your buddys” are out there ?
And so, an idea was born ………
Welcome to DiveTagsUK. A range of recyclable, aluminium identity tags designed by divers, for divers, to suit your needs. We have specifically designed a range of high quality, colour coated, aluminium tags suitable for tanks, bags, kit & equipment and keys that are custom made with your personal, club or school details permanently engraved.
