ADS318 - USAT Liberty Wreck
1 July, 2017
- Team Leader
- Max
- Number of Participants
- 12
- Total Debris Collected
- 5 kgs (measured)
-8.274206, 115.593038
Survey Information
- Location Name
- ADS318 - USAT Liberty Wreck
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Bali Dream Divers Tulamben
- City
- Tulamben
- Country
- Indonesia
- Date
- 1 July, 2017
- Survey Duration
- 62 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: -8.274206
Longitude: 115.593038
- Weather Conditions
-
Above water: sunny with moderate/strong winds.
Underwater: moderate surf and current.
- Survey Depth Range
- 2–30 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 2550.8 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- rock
- Ecosystem
- rocky reef
- Wave Conditions
- Slight for waves 0.5 -1.25 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 21 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 4 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 2 |
| Fishing: Line | 35 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 1 |
| Tobacco Packaging & Wrappers | 6 |
| Plastic Fragments | 30 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cloth Fragments | 10 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Plastic: Decorative fake plants | 45 |
Additional Information
Fake plastic garden decorations.
Fake plastic garden decorations - Bali's economy is dependent on tourism, and decorative plastic plants could be due to the pressure of maintaining the islands' reputation for natural beauty.
Burnt unidentified materials - burning waste is a massive problem all over Indonesia, and has become part of the culture. However, it's a method of waste disposal where there is no efficient system implemented.
SCUBA regulator mouthpiece - likely from a diver experiencing a split regulator mouthpiece when underwater during their dive and discarding it irresponsibly from some sense of convenience.
Comments and Feedback
Great group of people turned out from far away countries to local dive guides to help remove debris and protect our ocean! We are finding more and more support from the other dive centers in our area and hope that doing these Dive and Debris surveys will become popular. Conditions were good but there was some strong current at the end of our dive. We managed to still come away with a good amount of debris though. Thanks again to everyone that helped us with our adopted dive site, our house reef, the famous USAT Liberty wreck! ~Bali Dream Divers Tulamben
