Henry Wang and his Divers for Cleaner Lakes and Oceans team collected 256.5 pounds of garbage over two days of diving at Cat Lake over the Sept. 21 weekend.
The main culprits polluting the popular lake were 454 beer cans, 79 beer bottles — none of which can be recycled because they are too contaminated — 25 sunglasses and 45 balls, Wang told The Chief.
The rest his team pulled up consisted of everything from camp chairs and umbrellas to cameras and speakers.
While Wang and his team have cleaned Cat Lake numerous times, on July 29, Wang, a professional diver based in Vancouver, went to the lake to retrieve someone's phone from its depths.
While there, he saw how polluted the lake had become.
"That's about as worse as I've ever seen it," he said at the time.
So he came back with his team to make things right again.
He says his team cleans about 20 lakes and Cat Lake is the top of the list — number one for most amount of trash.
~With files from Keili Bartlett
