GUWAA 2014

Exciting news: 

Global Underwater Awareness Association GUWAA has officially moved it headquarters to Norway!

More detail to come...

To find out more about what is happening on the norwegian front, please read the latest GUWAA Marine Eco report!

Croatian Aqua Day - postponed

Croatian Aqua Day, that had been scheduled to take place on May 31st 2014, has been postponed to September 27th 2014 due to the catastrophic floods that in May hit the northeastern part of Croatia and also our neighbours in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia..

As you already know, the concept of every Aqua Day event is to include as many local diving centers as possible in the host country, and to do underwater cleanup and marine litter removal at the same time on the same day.
Last year 25 cities participated in the first Croatian Aqua Day. This year interest was much bigger, so we put together 37 cities in Croatia. Some of them couldn’t be part of this initiative because they had to defend their homes, their families and friends, their animals and other treasures from the floods.


In September, city of Split which is HQ od Croatian Aqua Day this year, will host many of our guests and ambassadors from Croatia and globe, which will give us support and help us to raise awareness of people, by putting in the first plan the fact how necessary is to maintain our waters clean and to put focus on a people who lost their homes in floods which left only ruins, corpses and litter.

(Source: Radio-televizija Bosne i Hercegovine)

(Source: www.index.hr)

(Source: www.24sata.hr)

 

You can also help to those people from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia - follow the links bellow.

EMERGENCY APPEAL FOR FLOOD AFFECTED AREAS:

 

CROATIAN RED CROSS 

Donations Croatia

http://www.hck.hr/en/quick-news/emergency-appeal-for-flood-affected-areas-in-croatia-60

Donations Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia

http://www.hck.hr/en/page/emergency-appeal-for-flood-affected-people-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina-and-serbia-414

 

However, some of our partners - local diving centers, have done the cleanup in May.

Once again we want to thank them all and to invite them to join us in September in Split!

 

Diving centers participants are:

VARAŽDIN - Klub podvodnih aktivnosti Varaždin

METKOVIĆ - Klub za podvodne aktivnosti "NERETVA"

KARLOVAC - Klub za podvodne aktivnosti Karlovac

UMAG - Subaquatic Diving Center UMAG

LOŠINJ - Ronilački centar Benthos

PETRINJA - Ronilački klub ORCA

POREČ - Ronilački centar Poreč

ROVINJ - MEDITERRANEUM MARE SPORT SCUBA DIVE CENTAR- ROVINJ

Also,

BJELOVAR:

Društva-udruge djeluju u okviru-Zajednice športsko ribolovnih društava i udruga Bjelovar

- Športsko ribolovno društvo „Česma“ Bjelovar   

- Športsko ribolovno društvo „Ribič“ Rovišče       

- Športsko ribolovno društvo „Štuka“ Nova Rača     

- Športsko ribolovno društvo „Slavija“ Severin     

- Športsko ribolovna udruga Općine Šandrovac „Gradina“ Šandrovac  

TROGIR:

TROGIR DIVING CENTER

IMOTSKI:

RONILAČKI KLUB CRVENO JEZERO IMOTSKI

SAMOBOR:

EKO DRUŠTVO ŽUMBERAK

ZAGREB:

DPS ZAGREB

ILOK:

ŠARAN

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Guinness World Record LogoWe want to thank everyone who participated in this year's Global Underwater Cleanup and Protection Day! Because of the bad weather conditions, many diving centers worldwide had to postpone the cleanup and we didn't succeed to set a Guinness World Record.
Next year we are going to organize the 3rd World Underwater Cleanup and Protection Day and we will attempt to set the record again!
Join us!