Surfers Against Sewage Autumn Beach Clean: 28th October 2018 It’s The Little Things That Count Increasing awareness of microplastics in the ocean, and our food chain is starting to spread. Soon there’ll be a link between plastics and diseases in humans, but is it all too late? Our volunteers hit Cambois beach for the annual […]
Cambois Beach Clean: 16th September 2018 We like nothing better than hitting the beach and picking up trash. For our latest clean up, we had a bunch of extra reasons to gather our volunteers and head down to Cambois! The Great British Beach Clean Every year in September, the Marine Conservation Society call for volunteers […]
The Kids Club Verdict Is In… AWESOME! Our summer holiday kids club has come to an end. Four incredible young lads have come on in leaps and bounds since their first session back in July. Waterbabies… Our program started with water safety and learning the RNLI’s Float To Survive technique. They braved our cold water […]
Cambois Beach Clean: 26th August 2018 Our troop of enthusiastic environmental volunteers headed down to North Blyth beach to tackle the messy problem of marine debris. Some joined us from as far away as Bolton and the drizzle certainly didn’t put them off! This section of Cambois Beach is always tricky. On a high tide, […]
The Fifth Point’s Eco Divers Feature On The BBC The BBC got wind of the fantastic efforts of our eco divers and their commitment commitment to keeping Our Sea Trash Free. They asked if they could interview Nic and film some footage of our divers hard at work. They joined us for our Collywell Bay […]
When Stubborn Marine Life Foils Your Dive Against Debris! As part of our PADI Women’s Dive Day, we organised a shore dive at Knacker Hole in Beadnell. It’s one of our regular dive spots, and as our Adopted Dive Site, it seemed rude not to conduct a survey while we were fun diving! Even though we’re […]
PADI Women’s Dive Day (That Turned Into A Week!) For the past three years, divers from every corner of the globe have come together for PADI Women’s Dive Day to bond over their love of the ocean and a passion for diving. The Fifth Point jumped at the chance to get involved in 2018! Did […]
SAS Big Spring Beach Clean: Cambois 15th April 2018 The weather was finally back on our side as our troop of volunteers headed down to Cambois Beach with Surfers Against Sewage. If you remember, our March clean-up was cancelled because of the snow, so this was our first opportunity to get together after the storms […]
Beach Clean: Cambois 18th February 2018 What a tremendous turnout for this month’s Marine Conservation Society Beach Clean. With all the increased publicity around the plight of marine litter, like minded individuals are definitely making a movement. Even the Queen herself has banned single use plastic from her royal estates. Because of this movement, our […]
Beach Clean: Cambois 21st January 2018 This month’s wintry beach clean saw a record number of volunteers turning out to do their bit to tackle the problem of marine debris – 23 in total! Blue Planet II has really made an impact on so many people. Some of our volunteers commented that they’d seen the […]