Carr's Bay
2 April, 2016
- Team Leader
- Charley Bartlett
- Number of Participants
- 3
- Total Debris Collected
- 27 kgs (measured)
16.796412, -62.209211
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Carr's Bay
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Montserrat island Dive Centre
- City
- Carr's Bay
- Country
- Montserrat
- Date
- 2 April, 2016
- Survey Duration
- 67 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 16.796412
Longitude: -62.209211
- Weather Conditions
-
Still and calm this week, but big swells the week previously.
- Survey Depth Range
- 4.8–10.4 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 363.412 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 29 |
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 2 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 19 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 1 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 11 |
| Fishing: Line | 20 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 1 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 1 |
| Gloves (latex) | 2 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 6 |
| Plastic Fragments | 63 |
| Cigarette Filters | 6 |
| Strapping Bands (plastic) | 5 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 1 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 2 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 48 |
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 4 |
| Cups & Plates-tableware/dishes (metal) | 2 |
| Pipes & Rebar | 1 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 1 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 4 |
| Metal Fragments | 22 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Inner-tubes & Rubber Sheets | 1 |
| Rubber Bands | 1 |
| Rubber Fragments | 11 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags (burlap) | 2 |
| Rope And String (cloth) | 2 |
| Towels/rags | 2 |
| Cloth Fragments | 18 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Paper, Cardboard Fragments | 11 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 4 |
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 3 |
| Toys | 2 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| small solar panel | 1 |
| heavy electrical wire | 1 |
| plastic disposible razor | 1 |
| metal sun chair | 1 |
Additional Information
There appears to be large items that have been abandoned for a long time; propane tanks, marine batteries, boat hulls, that we couldn't remove at this time, but will remove at a later date.
A solar panel! Someone who is conscious of conserving the natural resources and using alternative power has allowed this to go to waste.
entangled fishing line - moves through the reef snagging on any branch that it catches, causing damage and stranglation
single use items - beverage cans, plastic bottles, plastic bags
clothing and fabric - tumbles over the reef sticking to young sponge coral and either rips the sponge out of its habitat in strong water movement or remains across the reef, smothering all that lies beneath it.
Comments and Feedback
WE have found Disposable plastic cased razors on many of our Dive Against Debris, and are never sure where to categorise them. Is this a common find? Is it worth the being added to the survey list?
Even though we had a very small turn out for this months Beach Clean-Up and Dive Against Debris, our wonderful willing volunteers collected 40kgs of trash from the beach and our divers from Montserrat Island Dive Centre rescued the reef from 27kgs of garbage! Well done team!
