turn out ever for the fourth annual Coastal and Marine Clean-up day on Saturday.

A total of 335 people spent the day as land volunteers, data detectives and divers, picking up litter at 20 different sites around Bermuda.

Eleven sites were earmarked as survey areas, where students from Bermuda College, the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme and Duke University collected data on coastal and marine litter.

The Centre for Marine Conservation's survey methodology, the internationally accepted standard for gathering information about coastal and marine debris, was used.

Data collected on Saturday in Bermuda and from similar events held over the weekend in other countries will be used in December 1998, when the United Nation's Year of the Ocean Campaign assesses the effectiveness of existing international ocean dumping regulations.

Locally, the data collection effort marked the start of KBB's efforts to become a research-oriented, environmental institution. The KBB expects to publish the results of their survey later in the week.

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