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Voyage North | Jul 17, 2012 | 6:33

Clean Diving

Throwing garbage into the water, may get it out of sight. But it certainly puts it into the mind of Len Mason. The Thunder Bay man is the founder of Eco Divers. It's a group of scuba divers who will volunteer to clean up some of those nasty, underwater garbage dumps. Mason and the others strapped on their tanks yesterday (sun) to tidy up at the mouth of the Current River. He spoke with Cathy Alex.

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