Banana Bay
8 September, 2016
- Team Leader
- Nicolas Bergere
- Number of Participants
- 9
- Total Debris Collected
- 4 kgs (estimated)
7.503942599999999, 98.32663960000002
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Banana Bay
- Organization/Dive Centre
- All 4 Diving
- City
- Patong
- Country
- Thailand
- Date
- 8 September, 2016
- Survey Duration
- 44 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 7.503942599999999
Longitude: 98.32663960000002
- Weather Conditions
-
Rainy and wavy (average of 1.8 meter waves the all week)
- Survey Depth Range
- 3–25 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 20000 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 14 |
| Bottles: Bleach/cleaner Bottles | 1 |
| Fishing: Line | 16 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 8 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 13 |
| Furnishings (plastic) | 2 |
| Plastic Fragments | 1 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 4 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 1 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 1 |
| Metal Fragments | 1 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 3 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rubber Bands | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Towels/rags | 1 |
| Cloth Fragments | 4 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cardboard: Packaging & Cartons | 1 |
Additional Information
The 2 largest debris encountered was plastic (from any tourist boat I guess) and Fishing line and net (from fisherman boat that hang around probably)
We found an electric switch.
Plastic bottle, everybody should be aware to not throwing anything from the boat
Fishing line are found way to lose from the shore where the coral are still fighting to live
Fishing net, this area have a lot of staghorn coral from which one it's very hard to remove fishing net.
Comments and Feedback
As we were 9, we built up 3 different team to cover a large area and we haven't find that much Debris compare to last year. Less Debris or more everyday work from every divers for collecting debris, I wouldn't be able to say. From now one, I'm planning on running a dive against Debris every month on this specific dive site to see the evolution.
