Watch: The gondoliers dive deep to reclaim Venice’s beauty

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00:00A Venezia, in vista of the water, is a stratosphere.

00:05Unfortunately, the water is much more inquinata than once.

00:09There are many types of refuse.

00:13The refuse, unfortunately, leads to the flow of water.

00:17With lack of visibility, you can acquire some senses, like the Tatto.

00:22I am Marco Pagan, I am a volunteer volunteer volunteer.

00:26I am Stefano Vio, I am a volunteer volunteer volunteer volunteer division Artiglio.

00:45We are a group of friends, friends and colleagues

00:49that we submerge in the Venezia channels

00:53and we recover the old refugees.

00:56Everyone has their own role.

00:58Usually when we pull the channels,

01:00we limit the area with two boats that show that there is a subacquee.

01:04Then we expect, in accordance with the force,

01:07the command of the Vigili of Venezia to help us manage the traffic.

01:12When we find important objects,

01:15such as a pneumatic,

01:16from the surface,

01:18we pass a gancho,

01:19connected to a cliff,

01:21and we bring the pneumatic,

01:23and it is carried out with force

01:25from the boat that is on top.

01:27We often remain on the surface

01:30with the material that we find.

01:32Because there is a marine engine,

01:34because it is used by the boat,

01:36but the air air conditioning is really out of place.

01:39We collect the waste from the channels

01:42are secular.

01:43Maybe they drink a beer or two more

01:46and maybe they don't have any bottles

01:49and they get in water

01:52to get all the things that were not useable.

01:55The channels were like a discarious.

01:59By many years we have used engine engines

02:02to have two times

02:03so that it wasn't burned and it was not burned.

02:06Now we can take the bath

02:08when I was about 10 years old, I lived close to the Arsenal Canal.

02:13I'm still still in time to bath in the Canal.

02:17My relationship with the water is very intimate.

02:20I feel that it's just my element.

02:23I love the sea, I love the water.

02:27I'm a kid that I do immersions in the whole world.

02:30I take advantage of when I go in vacation to do an immersions.

02:35We had a vacation in Marosso,

02:38and on an immersions we found a stiva

02:41that was carried out of gommas.

02:44Once we got in the boat,

02:47came in mind the preumatici

02:50of the cars that are used to be used

02:53here in the Canal.

02:55We thought about it so,

02:58in the community of Venezia,

03:00and they gave us the first immersions

03:04in the water.

03:07The problem was the equipment.

03:09In the water,

03:11in the water,

03:12there are bacteria,

03:14microorganisms that are nocives

03:16to human beings.

03:19We use an equipment that is professional,

03:22which can give us

03:25that stratum of coivencia

03:27that makes us almost 100%.

03:29If part of that fango

03:31you can touch the timpano

03:32you could also create

03:33some important infections.

03:34This is the fifth year,

03:36and we arrived at the 31st

03:39immersion.

03:40We have recovered

03:4230.000 kg of reflux

03:44and more than 1.600 pneumatici

03:47of cars.

03:48All the material

03:50that was collected

03:51is brought to the Giudecca

03:54where there is an incenerator

03:56and where there is

03:57the smalting.

03:58We can see

03:59some positive things.

04:03We work only in winter

04:05since we have the rest

04:07of our annual work

04:09as gondolieri

04:10because this is an old

04:13family family

04:15I am part of a family

04:18of gondolieri

04:19I started very soon

04:20I started very soon

04:21like 9 years old

04:25and after the superior

04:26I started to practice

04:28more and more

04:29with the profession

04:30I started to go

04:33to the water

04:34to bring tourists

04:36to the surface

04:37is a net contrast

04:39with the caoticity

04:40that there is usually

04:41in the surface.

04:44This activity

04:45certainly

04:46makes me feel

04:47a bit more useful

04:48and also

04:49gives me

04:50satisfaction

04:51the fact

04:52of her

04:53to help her

04:54in its delicate

04:55balance.

05:01We are

05:02to find

05:03Venezia

05:04as a city

05:05and

05:06also

05:07other cities

05:08more clean

05:09than what they are.

05:11For me

05:12it is a great pride

05:13I see

05:14the boats

05:16that don't

05:17take more

05:18objects

05:19in the helix

05:20I see

05:21the water

05:22more clean

05:23the water

05:24more scalable

05:25so

05:26the love

05:27for this city

05:28is profound

05:29and

05:31we hope

05:32that we can continue

05:33to do it.

05:34We are

05:38very satisfied

05:39with our work

05:40our mission

05:41is

05:42a real message

05:43to make

05:44that

05:45there is

05:46a better world

05:47not only

05:48here in

05:49Venice

05:50but in

05:51we are

05:53not only

05:54but the

05:55others

05:56are

05:57the

05:58who

05:59are

06:00in

06:01the

06:02and the

06:03ones

06:04are

06:05not all

06:06the

06:07ones

06:08but the

06:09ones

06:10are

06:11for

06:12all

06:13that

06:14have

06:15been

06:16to

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