Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Ras Katy
15 September, 2024
- Team Leader
- Elise Watling
- Number of Participants
- 8
- Total Debris Collected
- 3 kgs (estimated)
27.847439845209, 34.305085837841
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Ras Katy
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Emperor Divers Sharm
- City
- Sharm El Sheikh
- Country
- Egypt
- Date
- 15 September, 2024
- Survey Duration
- 60 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 27.847439845209
Longitude: 34.305085837841
- Weather Conditions
-
Calm
- Survey Depth Range
- 6–18 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 102 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 2 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 5 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 1 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 3 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 3 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 2 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 2 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 1 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 1 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cloth Fragments | 2 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 1 |
Additional Information
Frequent use of glass bottom and snorklling boats in the area where signle use plastic blows off boats. Also wind from the land blows rubbish into this dive spot
