Plastic bottles, Styrofoam cups, shotgun wads, someone’s bicycle, a skateboard and even a kite.

Not exactly gold doubloons and pieces of eight from a sunken Spanish galleon but no less important for eight local divers who volunteered their time on a rainy Saturday morning to clean trash out of the swimming lagoon at Windjammer Park.

Pete Pehl, who described himself as the surface support for the dive crew, remarked the weather is nasty right now but in a couple of weeks, people will be swimming in the water.

“The lagoon is relatively clean for the number of people who swim here and fortunately, there is not a lot of broken glass. That’s a good sign,” he said.

The divers began work at 9:30 and Pehl said they recovered a lot of stuff in just a short period of time.

“We pulled out a bunch of Styrofoam cups and plastic bottles, along with a quite a number of plastic wads from shotgun shells that floated in,” he said. “They also recovered a bicycle someone had thrown in the water and a skateboard. Swimmers could have gotten their feet tangled on both those things and that would have been a dangerous situation.”

Pehl said the divers started along the perimeter of the water at low tide, picked up trash and then set up a map course and crisscrossed the water, grabbing trash from below the surface.

“They bring the stuff up and I pack it off,” Pehl said.

Further down the shore, 11-year-old Wyatt Homola from Oak Harbor and his mother, Angie, popped to the surface of the water with a kite they found stuck in

the bottom of the lagoon.

“Wyatt just finished his qualification to become a diver about a month ago and he’s doing a great job,” Pehl said.