Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Blue Corner
11 June, 2024
- Team Leader
- Ruben Rubi
- Number of Participants
- 3
- Total Debris Collected
- 13 kgs (measured)
11.326432, 124.113202
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Blue Corner
- Organization/Dive Centre
- DivePro Courses
- City
- Malapascua Island
- Country
- Philippines
- Date
- 11 June, 2024
- Survey Duration
- 90 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 11.326432
Longitude: 124.113202
- Weather Conditions
-
Windy
- Survey Depth Range
- 2–4 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 900 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- seagrass
- 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) | 6 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 3 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 16 |
| Bottles: Bleach/cleaner Bottles | 2 |
| Carpet (synthetic) | 3 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 3 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 27 |
| Furnishings (plastic) | 4 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 3 |
| Sheeting: Tarpaulin, Plastic Sheets, Palette Wrap | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 335 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 38 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 6 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Batteries: AA, AAA, C & D, 6V, 9V, Etc. | 1 |
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 12 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 9 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 3 |
| Metal Fragments | 1 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Inner-tubes & Rubber Sheets | 1 |
| Rubber Fragments | 12 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 1 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 33 |
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 1 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Plastic hose | 1 |
| Compact disc | 2 |
Additional Information
Just local community & tourism
Artificial leaves, compact disc
Nylon line - Used for construction of banka boat
Sachets - Local community uses thousands of sachets daily
Plastic fragments - Show that some debris has been there for very long time.
Comments and Feedback
Most of the debris has been carried by the current from the next beach.
This dive site is used everyday as a confined water environment for DSDs and OWD courses and it is the very first underwater environment that thousands of people see every year.
