Crew use COVID downtime to make a difference By Lucy Chabot Reed In the Bahamas, Mate/Engr. Paul Nelson and Stew Fiona Last of the 81-foot (24.5m) M/Y Equinox started diving on their marina home in April to pick up litter. Based year-round at Bay Street Marina in Nassau, they have removed heaps of debris and watched fish and wildlife flourish.
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“The marina is usually a very busy place, and this has been a really unique time to get in the water to clean it up,” said Nelson, who is also the 81-foot (24m) charter yacht’s dive instructor. “If you walk around a marina in the Bahamas, you can see the bottom, and it doesn’t take long to pick up the very visible debris and make a difference.”
The 81-foot Cheoy Lee is available for charter and the crew are used to doing spontaneous and unusual things. So as soon as the boating traffic stopped in the marina, they knew they had to do something to support their marina home. “We started off by picking up big bits, and then we’ve gone back and picked up crates and crates of smaller bits, and pretty soon we
