Eel Garden to Lighthouse Drift
22 April, 2021
- Team Leader
- Andreas Fuchs
- Number of Participants
- 2
- Total Debris Collected
- 500 kgs (estimated)
28.505259537631, 34.521163527413
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Eel Garden to Lighthouse Drift
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Mirage
- City
- Dahab
- Country
- Egypt
- Date
- 22 April, 2021
- Survey Duration
- 63 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 28.505259537631
Longitude: 34.521163527413
- Weather Conditions
-
mildly choppy
- Survey Depth Range
- 8–12 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 6000 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- coral
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Debris Items Collected
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Tires/tyres | 11 |
Additional Information
Carelessness towards nature. The tires have been dumped with intent.
Car / Truck tires
Comments and Feedback
The iPhone app is really difficult to handle when you enter a drift dive ( area searched ). Since we saw these tires, but could not take them out - this does not make the site free of debris. But it is also not correct, that we collected the tires ... as the preview states.
We did a drift dive. Tires can be only salvaged in properly set up projects. They are not just heavy, but some are deep in the corals. There were already projects which lead to salvaging the tires on eel garden towards the northern direction. But surprisingly and fortunatly no other debris on this dive which means that the general improvement of Dahab trash management has a good impact on the sea
