Cleaning up India’s oceans – one dive at a time – BBC News

Plastic pollution has become a severe problem along India’s coastline.

One group of divers in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh say what they found underwater was “heartbreaking” – so they decided to act.

Now, they dive every day and bring out plastic from the ocean to help marine life survive.

Video by BBC Telugu’s Sangeetham Prabhakar; edited by Anshul Verma

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Andhra Pradesh is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of 162,975 km² and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants.

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