Divers cleaning up seabed off Greece’s Alonissos raise alarm over marine pollution

By Stelios Misinas

Off the Greek island of Alonissos in the eastern Aegean Sea, volunteer divers grab decaying plastic bottles, a tyre and a rusted anchor chain from the seabed and place them in a trash bag as part of an EU-funded cleanup to protect marine life.

The items recovered off Alonissos – a favourite tourist spot for its green-blue waters, and Europe’s largest protected marine park – represent just a tiny part of