Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Hón Mòng Tay (Stone Lighthouse)
24 February, 2017
- Team Leader
- Daniele Monti
- Number of Participants
- 13
- Total Debris Collected
- 28 kgs (measured)
9.908028132970157, 104.02118539823277
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Hón Mòng Tay (Stone Lighthouse)
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Rainbow Divers, Phu Quoc
- City
- Duong Dong
- Country
- Vietnam
- Date
- 24 February, 2017
- Survey Duration
- 50 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 9.908028132970157
Longitude: 104.02118539823277
- Weather Conditions
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Moderate wind, Strong current, Moderate rain
- Survey Depth Range
- 5–15 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 40 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- coral
- 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) | 10 |
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 4 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 31 |
| Cigarette Lighters | 1 |
| Fishing: Line | 9 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 1 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 2 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 5 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 3 |
| Cigarette Filters | 1 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 1 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Batteries: AA, AAA, C & D, 6V, 9V, Etc. | 1 |
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 9 |
| Cars & Car Parts | 2 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 1 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 4 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rubber Bands | 2 |
| Tires/tyres | 2 |
| Rubber Fragments | 1 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 10 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Boat oil filter, filled with exhaust oil | 1 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Crustaceans | |
| Species or Common Name | Blu Crabs |
| Number Entangled | 4 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | plastic bag, clothing |
| Other Animals | |
| Species or Common Name | Bohol Discodoris, nudibranch |
| Number Entangled | 2 |
| Status | dead |
| Type of Debris | fishing net |
| Comments | many corals, sponges, anemone and more completly entangled in fishing nets. impossible to release them without damaging marine life. |
Additional Information
Uncontrolled fishing; tourist and locals littering. the strong current bring all the floating garbage directly into the bay of the island.
An oil filter of a boat, completley full, and leaking, of exhaust oil.
Fishing Nets entangle all kind of marine life
Plastig Bags, easly mistakeble for jellyfish by predators
Beverage bottles, plastic pollution on the bottom
