THE Breast Cancer Network pink ladies went where no pink lady has been before when Nelson Bay's Narki Gnome Dive Club took their cause under water yesterday.
Sixty club members took the dive off Fly Point and planted the pink ladies in a temporary garden as part of the network's mini field campaign to raise awareness of breast cancer throughout October.
Pro Dive master scuba instructor and organiser Emma Challen said it was the first underwater mini field and that the dive club had become involved in the cause after one of its members was diagnosed with breast cancer.
"We wanted to support her and the network but we wanted to do something a bit different, so this was our twist on planting a field of pink ladies.
Because we were in the marine park, we didn't want to leave anything behind, so every diver was assigned a pink lady and it was that diver's duty to bring her back."
The dive club held other fund-raising activities in conjunction with the dive, including head shaving, hair dying, raffles and a barbeque and raised $2000, double what they expected.
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