ADS 126 - Chilpo Beach Northern Rocky Outcrop
17 June, 2023
- Team Leader
- William Hendersdon
- Number of Participants
- 4
- Total Debris Collected
- 100 kgs (estimated)
36.136089, 129.398324
Survey Information
- Location Name
- ADS 126 - Chilpo Beach Northern Rocky Outcrop
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Dive Against Debris Korea (Daegu)
- City
- Pohang
- Country
- South Korea
- Date
- 17 June, 2023
- Survey Duration
- 45 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 36.136089
Longitude: 129.398324
- Weather Conditions
-
clear. 1 day or rain
- Survey Depth Range
- 1–4 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 75 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- rocky reef
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Buoys & Floats (plastic & Foamed) | 20 |
| Fishing: Line | 10 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 8 |
| Plastic Fragments | 5 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 20 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 1 |
| Pipes & Rebar | 1 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 150 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Gloves (rubber) | 2 |
| Rubber Fragments | 1 |
Additional Information
This was a net mass that i have encountered several times this year. On this day I had 3 fellow divers, so I dedicated one team to remove this net, the other team to move around the reef and collect loose trash. The figures in this survey are very conservative estimates of the number of sinkers, buoy, rope, nets, lures and all the other stuff that is contained within the huge mass of net we removed. Normally I bring the loose stuff home to sort, but the members of the group emptied those mess bags on the ground near the mass and it was just too hot out to try to pick out what was not part of the mass. Apologies for that.
nets
ropes
Comments and Feedback
Here is a video I put together of the events of the day. The other dive team did not have a video capture device, so the final removal of the net is not filmed, but here is from my team working to cut the mass free. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GI_rbFhoCA-sECsGxLX70WWHK8fM4G9K/view?usp=drive_link
