RAMESWARAM: As part of an ocean conservation awareness campaign, a team of volunteers collected plastic waste from beneath the sea while travelling from Talaimannar in Sri Lanka to Chennai.

As part of a marine pollution awareness initiative, volunteers from Chennai travelled by boat covering Talaimannar, Rameswaram, Cuddalore, Puducherry and Chennai.

They dived beneath the sea and collected discarded fishing nets, plastic covers and other plastic waste.

The clean-up drive has been under way for more than a week. In the awareness expedition, which began in Talaimannar and concluded in Chennai, the volunteers collected around 220 kg of abandoned fishing nets and plastic waste.

Meanwhile, to mark World Oceans Day, a beach clean-up drive was also conducted at Vedhalai beach, where 183 kg of waste materials were collected.