KUWAIT, Feb 10 (KUNA) -- Kuwait Environment Protection Society's diving team successfully lifted three pieces of vessel wreckage, as well as abandoned fishing nets weighing five tons from off the southern coast by the Kout Mall in Fahaheel.
The team's marine operations officer, Waleed Al-Shatti, told KUNA on Wednesday that the pieces of wreckage had been posing an environmental threat because they had been drifting closer to oil facilities and marine routes.
He explained that the team used a large bulldozer to pull the wreckage away during low tide, adding that the team sought through its volunteer environmental activities to maintain the beauty of the Kuwaiti coasts and islands.
Last month, the team had retrieved a sunken 25-foot boat weighing three tons off the coast of Kubbar Island, close to the coral reef. - Kuna