Dive Against Debris Data Submission
ADS259 - Sarah's Secret Garden
25 February, 2017
- Team Leader
- Lisa Mclernon & Sydney Shier
- Number of Participants
- 8
- Total Debris Collected
- 9.5 kgs (measured)
-18.37945, 177.98671
Survey Information
- Location Name
- ADS259 - Sarah's Secret Garden
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Projects Abroad - Shark Conservation
- City
- Pacific Harbour
- Country
- Fiji
- Date
- 25 February, 2017
- Survey Duration
- 35 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: -18.37945
Longitude: 177.98671
- Weather Conditions
-
Rain showers, some torrential
- Survey Depth Range
- 15–10 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 200 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- coral
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 2 |
| Fishing: Line | 4 |
| Plastic Fragments | 1 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Jars-food (glass) | 1 |
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 3 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 13 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Aerosol/spray Cans | 1 |
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 1 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Boat part | 1 |
Additional Information
High level of tourism - day fisherman, tourist boats, surf camps, local community with poor waste disposal. Volunteer MPA but know that spear fisherman still fish there
Metal block
Glass bottles - thrown overboard by fisherman and tourists
Fishing line - waste from local fisherman
Plastic bottles - thrown over board by fisherman and tourists.
