FLORENCE MABEL GUTCHEN: The ghost-net is a threat to our marine life.
And the sea is our livelihood.
Because when the fisherman ... somehow the ghost-net ripped away,
it’s threat to the coral.
And it kill all the marine life, like turtle, dugong, fish.
JIMMY THAIDAY: So, our ghost-net, we get ghost-net from the rangers,
bring some from when they go round the island.
They find some and they bring it.
They bring, like, nets and ropes and ...
Yeah, and then we turn that into ... turn that into art.
The framework was made out of steel, 5-mil steel.
We had to do welding, we had to weld the frame together
and then wrap it up with ropes.
RACY OUI-PITT: Like, first it was thinking, ‘Oh, it’s going to be hard’
and things like that, but, you know, when we all team up
to do things like that,
everything sort of go really easy.
MILLER ANSON: We went to the harbour and took some photo of the engine,
and we did some planning and stuff.
Yeah, some sketching.
Yeah, even ... we did some tacking on the frame here, the steel.
Yeah.
Yeah, and we just ... we just put it on the engine,
and it just came out perfect.
Yeah, the engine, ‘cos it’s a big engine,
yeah, we just wanted to put 30, but now it’s ...
yeah, it looks more like a 60.
A 60 horsepower, yeah.
The main thing is just dinghy and the engine and ...
But then all the ideas came in and everybody was like,
‘Oh, we should put that in, we should put that in,’
and, yeah, we came up with paddles, spear,
fuel tank and anchors.
ELLAROSE SAVAGE: This anchor is the mud anchor.
You only use this when you anchor the dinghy ...
like, when you’ve come in late in the afternoon and you anchor your dinghy.
Inside the anchor,
there’s a ... steel iron inside that forms the shape,
and it’s got a PVC pipe that I’ve wrapped rope with
and then stitched net onto it.
And this one is the reef anchor.
When you go out fishing, you have to use this one.
You can’t use this one if you’re out fishing
‘cos you have to ...
If it gets snagged, you have to swim and get your anchor out.
Or another option is to cut the rope.
JIMMY THAIDAY: This fuel tank is one of the many components of the dinghy,
and ... one of the components I did.
ELLAROSE SAVAGE: Yeah, everybody is proud about it,
and I’m proud of it too.
And we got the community talking about it
and ... telling every other people they meet on the street,
‘Oh, you should go up to the art centre
and see this huge ghost-net project.’
RACY OUI-PITT: Exciting when you see everything sort of all done up
and it’s ... I really like it.
FLORENCE MABEL GUTCHEN: When we look about ... like, look about the big picture,
it’s all about promoting.
And we, like, talk about the ... like, the safety for water,
like, please don’t throw things like that to destroy our ... our water
because the marine life is there,
it’s for us and for our generation to come.
So it’s all about, like, we make these pretty things and sell them,
but I said before, above all ... we are promoting and, you know,
tell the world to keep the water clean.
Because when you look after the sea, it will look after you.