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Visit our
Daily (maybe semi-daily) Blog and see what's happening with the APA! Please
click below to send a tax deductible donation. All donations are
put to good use with our boats, our staff, and our ever growing
list of projects to protect our ocean! |
The Aquatic Protection Agency is a non-profit organization. We welcome any support from foundations and individuals who believe in our cause. We were founded by a pair of divers who taught classes for many years, all the while watching the waters get worse. The blooms getting bigger and bigger. The fish harder to find. It reminded us of what has happened to the Black Sea. It is now virtually a dead sea...with empty high rise buildings lining its shores. Once one of the most abundant with life, it has been killed by pollution. We don't want that to happen to us, but it is happening. We are not sustaining our oceans, and we have to, if we plan on inhabiting this planet for generations to come. Join us in the fight. If you are interested in supporting our cause, please contact us. We all live on a planet whose life is determined by the overall health of our oceans. We are a water planet, yet we treat our water poorly, many using it as a huge dumping ground to discharge our sewage into. Laws have been in place for many years to protect our seas from sewage and chemical waste, unfortunately they are not monitored and enforced as they should be.
This harmless looking pipe was dumping over 2 million gallons of poorly treated sewage into a Marine Preserve and Sea Otter habitat each year. The Aquatic Protection Agency is dedicated to testing outpourings and pipes to determine when toxic waste is being dumped and by whom. Many citizens are extremely concerned for the quality of the water and have formed citizen watershed monitoring groups, but only sites that are easily accessible, and usually only urban runoff not finding the direct source of the discharge. As divers and climbers we retrieve and test water samples coming from underwater pipes, cliff side, and remote industrial sites. There are thousands of pipes and outpourings that need to be tested along the California coast. Companies are taken at their word for what they are discharging. It is our goal for this project to survey the coastline of California for toxic discharges, determine the source, and report to the appropriate government agency in that territory.
Click, or right click and "Save
Target As" this graphic to download a pdf file of our BlueBoater
informational flyer. |
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