During a recent trip to Bali’s Nusa Penida, an American tourists posted devastating video of the ocean conditions at one of Bali’s most famous tourist destinations, where she encountered floating plastic debris everywhere.
Bali is well known for its magnificent beaches and beautiful oceans, but when Sara Walsh, 25, and her brother Shane Walsh, 21, went snorkelling, they discovered a lot of trash drifting off the adjacent beaches.
The siblings shot a video of the turquoise seas littered with trash after being appalled by the water pollution level at the well-known tourist destination Nusa Penida.
In an interview, Walsh said, “This was our first stop on the snorkelling trip. They took us to an area where you could see Manta Rays. The ocean surface was very obviously covered in trash and plastic. But the tour guides seemed to see no issue with this and automatically started getting people in the water. I believe most people from our boat did jump in, but they very quickly got back on the boat because of how disgusting the water was.”
Sara Walsh added, “I believe we stopped at three more places to snorkel, and the rest seemed much cleaner and had less trash. I know that Bali has a heavy ocean pollution, so I worked with a sustainable factory trying to help clean its waters. I was disgusted. It is truly terrible that we are the cause of all this trash being in our oceans. It felt gross jumping into the water. I stayed in for maybe 30 seconds. But I mostly feel for the animals in the ocean being subjected to all our trash.”
The American tourists were in Bali for business purposes to visit the factory where Sara Walsh eco-friendly swimwear is produced.
“I picked a factory in Bali because of how badly that country’s oceans were polluted; yet, to witness it with my own eyes was horrifying. Walsh said, “I made the video to increase awareness and persuade more people to try to clean up our oceans.”
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