Hundreds pitch in to clean
Dongtan Beach
Sailors join up with hundreds
of students and other sailors (not shown) to clean Dongtan Beach.
Patcharapol Panrak
More than 250 Royal Thai Navy personnel and students picked up
garbage and cleaned Dongtan Beach as part of the Air and Coastal Defense
Command’s “Clean Ocean and Rivers” campaign.
Capt. Pichai Lochusakul, commander of fleet support, headed the May 29
exercise with 160 students from Wiwat Polamuang School and 100 navy
personnel.
Pichai said the navy wanted to help the community by picking up trash from
Thientalay to Dongtan beaches, a stretch of three kilometers.
The Gulf of Thailand, he said, is important for fishing, scuba diving and
tourism and said cleaning beaches and the water was important to preserve
those sectors as well as the marine ecosystem.
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