The group diving for beer cans and baby doll heads

一群潜水寻取啤酒罐和婴儿玩偶头颅

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2025-10-04

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In a cold muddy pond in Cape Cod, a group of self-proclaimed “old ladies” dives for garbage — and unexpectedly finds joy. This is a story from The Optimist, The Washington Post’s section about the best of humanity. If you want more stories like this, subscribe to our newsletter. If you love hearing these stories on “Post Reports,” please send us an email at podcasts@washpost.com. You can reach Maggie Penman directly at maggie.penman@washpost.com. Today’s show was produced by Maggie Penman. It was edited and mixed by Ted Muldoon. Thank you to Allison Klein.  Subscribe to The Washington Post here.
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  • We are really going to be zig-zagging.

  • It's a fairly shallow plateau.

  • We can get three of us, you know, 10, 12 feet apart.

  • Susan Bauer is holding court in a sandy parking lot across the street from a pond on Cape Cod.

  • The area's been cleaned up before, but we know that there's a construction site of crap,

  • and we have not found that yet, so that's what we're really after.

  • At 85 years old, she's tiny but strong.

  • She's standing up straight and absolutely brimming over with energy.

  • As she talks, she shifts her weight back and forth and gestures with her hands.

  • A group of women are standing around her listening intently, wearing bathing suits or wet suits.

  • Some of them have life vests on.

  • There's an air of anticipation.

  • And all of the women are between the ages of 65 and 85.

  • They all have bright orange hats or t-shirts on that say, O-Log.

  • It stands for Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage.

  • So this is John's Pawn in Mashby.

  • And we are going to an area where we have cleaned it up before,