This is the moment scuba divers stopped to fish out dozens of tubs of oil that were floating in the sea. <br /><br />The group of friends had been sailing to a dive spot off the coast of Taipei, Taiwan when they noticed the plastic barrels on July 24. <br /><br />Instead of scuba diving, they then spent the afternoon pulling the buckets marked 'New Mariner Oil' alongside Chinese letters out of the ocean.<br /><br />Diving instructor Wang Mingxiang, said they scooped 24 barrels out of the sea with the help of their guests. <br /><br />Many of them still had oil inside while they were floating in waters around the Keelung Tideland Park and Wanghai Lane Conservation.<br /><br />Wang said: "We could smell the oil from our boat. The odour was strong."<br /><br />The incident was reported to the Keelung City Government and the sea patrol units conducted an investigation. <br /><br />It said that they will compare the recovered buckets against the ones used by the passing ships to narrow down the culprit.<br /><br />Wang added: ''We should be looking after the ocean not allowing barrels of oil to be just floating around near the beach. <br /><br />''They could have harmed the marine life.''
