You too can sponsor a battery removal! A huge thanks to M2 from the Bay Area for his kind donation to Beneath the Looking Glass Project! In gratitude for his generosity I am dedicating the removal of Battery #20 in his name. Battery #20 has been de-crittering in the shallows, and now it is time for the Recycling facility!… Read more →
DiverLaura
Q & A
A few questions have come up in the comment sections after the media posted our story… I would like to take a moment to answer them here. Q) who hauls all these batteries after they have been removed? A) My dive buddies and I removed the batteries from the site and take them to an environmentally friendly scrap metal… Read more →
The media flurry
And so the media flurry continues! I can’t thank you all enough for all your kind emails and comments! Hear more of my yapping in this interview on KIRO morning radio! Read more →
King 5 News, “Making a Difference”
Battery #20 recovered! See the story here on King 5 http://www.king5.com/community/making-a-difference/Sea-garbage-removed-from-Elliott-Bay-by-West-Seattle-woman-142869095.html Read more →
Underwater Superheros!
http://www.king5.com/on-tv/evening-magazine/Puget-Sound-Super-Heroes-141837743.html Read more →
Untapped Millions
I want you. Grey haired, blue haired, no haired. The aging baby boomers, the retirees, the forgotten parents, the widows and widowers… When talking to my father the other night, it dawned on me… In this struggle against trash, I need an army, and I think I may have an idea where to start recruiting. My dad saves clippings for… Read more →
Evening Magazine, Wednesday March 7!
Yup, you read it right, program your DVR! Evening Magazine reporter Saint Bryan saw the Battery Round-up post on West Seattle Blog and thought it could be a good story! Read more →
We made the West Seattle Blog!
Video: The Great Battery Roundup of 2012, updated Thanks Tracy!!! my follow up for all the kind things folks have been saying 🙂 Thank you all for the kind and positive comments! I must admit, sometimes it feels like I’m tilting at windmills… But when we do a ‘second pass’ and find no batteries, and I see the smiling faces… Read more →
Great Battery Round-up 2012
MOAR batteries!
Cove 2 continues to be the gift that keeps on giving with regards to batteries. We have 5 more to take in for recycling which actually brings us to 10. There are 8 in the shallows and at least two more known in the primary ‘diving’ area before we start actually having to go “look” for them 🙂 … Read more →