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Susan Baur is eighty six years old and she runs a diving crew. Back in twenty seventeen she got tired of finding beer cans in the Cape Cod ponds where she swims, so she grabbed two swimmers and a kayaker and told them to start cleaning.
They named themselves Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage. Today several dozen women between sixty five and eighty five clean around twenty ponds a year, and they've hauled up at least six thousand pounds of trash.
Car batteries. Spent fireworks leaking perchlorates. An eighty pound toilet. The back end of a Corvette. Every diver has to swim half a mile in under thirty minutes to qualify.
Member Maggie Megaw said "This is so tangible and immediate." No committee, no federal grant, just old ladies in wetsuits doing the work nobody in power bothered to do.
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