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News and Media

Mar 12, 2024

ODA Volunteers putting tires in dumpsterOne thing about Ocean Defenders -- they are a determined bunch! But even while they are intensely focused on cleaning our precious coastal waters, they have lots of fun and laughs together...

 

Mar 7, 2024

ODA ocean cleanup diversThis makes our 15th (at least!) dive site in the coastal waters of the Big Island! Our cleanup crew was excited to inaugurate another location that needs our attention…

 

Feb 24, 2024

Volunteer ocean cleanup Crew with Catch of the DayWhat we remove from the oceans is mostly out-of-sight out-of-mind, but we know that if we didn’t do it, untold number of wildlife would be entangled, poisoned, and die…

 

Feb 21, 2024

Spitting Cave Oahu - a beautiful site that we love to clean of marine debris!This is a site we visit regularly to cleanup. Thank goodness we do or there would be a huge accumulation of debris!

 

Feb 15, 2024

ODA Hawaii Volunteer Crew with Catch of the DayThis was our second cleanup at this site and boy did it need it! Our team of 22 people did a great job hauling out a wide variety of debris…

 

Feb 7, 2024

Our friends from Portugal help with the ocean cleanupThis Big Island location is one of our adopted sites, so we came back to remove toxic debris, abandoned fishing gear, and other rubbish with our friends from Portugal!

 

Jan 26, 2024

Tanya BoraboraSince May 2021, ODA has conducted nine underwater cleanups here, and we’re so pleased that the management is “onboard” with this important work…

 

Jan 24, 2024

ODA ocean cleanup DiversIt’s been six months since we’ve been able to clean our adopted site Fish Camp. The ODA Oahu Crew was happy to be able to pull out accumulated abandoned fishing gear…

 

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