Unalaska, AK – Next week the Parks Culture & Recreation Department will begin its annual community-wide cleanup, leading local residents in an effort to collect trash around town. But tomorrow morning, the Unalaska Divers Association will be taking aim at garbage we can't see--the stuff that's accumulated underwater in Unalaska's small boat harbor.

About ten divers will be cleaning up the area around float C in the harbor. Diver Don Graves said that a lot of trash ends up down there, either accidentally or on purpose.

"It's where everything ends up," he said. "Someone goes, 'Well, it's easy to dump it over the side.' So, we end up with some of that stuff happening."

In past years, local volunteers and contracted divers pulled up about two tons of trash from the harbor around the A and B floats on two different occasions. Diver Roger Deffendall said those collection efforts turned up a mix of the good, the bad, and the ugly.

"One of the nicest treasures we found was one of the really old Clorox bottles from the '30s or '40s," he said. "But we [also] found lots of beer bottles, lots of beer cans, lots of net, lots of discarded crab pots, gloves, boots, sunglasses, ball caps--just a plethora of garbage that's there."

Tomorrow's cleanup begins at 9 a.m., and Graves says they'll continue into a second day if they need to. UniSea employees and members of the Unalaska City School's sophomore class will be providing assistance on the surface to the divers, and Jimmer McDonald of MAC Enterprises has donated the air the divers will be using during the cleanup.