SunSentinel informs about a new Guinness World Records with 633 scuba divers scooping up trash from the ocean floor near the Deerfield Beach International Fishing Pier.
Divers entered the ocean and had to stay in the water at least 15 minutes to be counted.
Among them was Dahlia Bolin, 13 who came with her mother from Mackinaw, Illinois, to help set the record, and pick up debris.
Diver and environmentalist RJ Harper, who helped recruit divers for the event, said he hopes the cleanup will inspire participants to hold cleanup events in the waters near their homes.
According to Guinness adjudicator Michael Empric, what really matters is that everyone is cleaning up around the pier and trying to improve the community.
The previous record for the most divers taking part in an underwater cleanup was held by Ahmed Gabr, a former Egyptian Army scuba diver, with a team of 614 divers in the Red Sea in Egypt in 2015.
Anyone can go to the GuinnessWorldRecords.com website and open an application but they must provide evidence that a particular record has been broken and it may take months to verify.