If you are a Scuba Diver and live in Texas or near Texas, I have an event for you!!! TRASH FEST 2008. It is a great charity project that caps off the diving season each year. This year the event is schedules for Saturday, October 4^th.

TrashFest is the nation's oldest underwater cleanup campaign bringing together scuba divers, businesses, government agencies, schools, civic and youth groups, scout troops and local citizens to improve the quality of the Comal River in New Braunfels, Texas. The Comal River became famous when Ripley's Believe It or Not featured it as the shortest river in the world. The 2.5-mile Comal River is one of the largest springs in Texas with 8 million gallons of water flowing through every hour. The water is pure, clear, about 73°F year round, and attracts thousands of tubers and tourists each year. After the tubing season winds down, divers from all over Texas and beyond gather to pull cans, shoes, sunglasses and other assorted trash and debris out of the river.

Since the first clean up in 1974, more than 9,500 volunteers have removed: 188,000 pounds of trash, 300,000 cans and bottles, 370,000 pop-tops and bottle caps, 6,900 sunglasses and shoes.

Registration is half the cost this year than it has been in the previous years due to the overwhelming success and number of volunteers over the previous years. An individual participating costs only $8 per person, and a team is $50.

You will be diving for about three hours from Noon to 3pm, and then in the evening there is a Barbeque dinner, and over $10,000 in door prize giveaways.

So go ahead and save the date, October 4^th in New Braunfels at the Comal River is the place to be. For more information and registration details go to www.trashfest.net