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Dive Against Debris Data Submission

Frederiksted Peir

4 March, 2017

Team Leader
Michael Casey
Number of Participants
12
Total Debris Collected
18 lbs (estimated)

17.714270453742, -64.884138191119

Survey Information

Location Name
Frederiksted Peir
Organization/Dive Centre
Cane Bay Dive Shop
City
Kingshill
Country
U.S. Virgin Islands
Date
4 March, 2017
Survey Duration
55 Minutes
GPS Coordinates
Latitude: 17.714270453742
Longitude: -64.884138191119
Weather Conditions
Sunny and Calm
Survey Depth Range
5–24 feet
Area Surveyed
170755 ft2
Dominant Substrate
sand
Ecosystem
Pier Support Structor Growth and some debris patches
Wave Conditions
Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
plastic materials collected
Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) 4
Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) 2
Cigarette Lighters 2
Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) 4
Fishing: Line 9
Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles 2
Food Wrappers (plastic) 7
Straws, Stirrers 7
Tampon Applicators 3
Tobacco Packaging & Wrappers 3
Toothbrushes 2
Plastic Fragments 11
glass materials collected
Jars-food (glass) 1
Glass & Ceramic Fragments 16
Beverage Bottles (glass) 2
metal materials collected
Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) 6
Caps & Lids (metal) 5
rubber materials collected
Condoms 2
cloth materials collected
Bags (cloth) 2
Cloth Fragments 3
Entangled Animals
Marine Mammals
Comments No entanglements to report

None at this location prior to our clean up. This is primarily local inhabitant debris.


These were frames we were ale to capture. We had two photographers and one young lady taking images had their younger sibling delete our other set.

This is a part of the Dive Against Debris Speciality Course, under my direction on beautiful St Croix USVI. I developed a conservation initiative program that included three high schools, and 10 local young ladies from those three schools. AZ Academy, Free Will Baptist and Central High Schools were the participating school's. This was a grant funded program through NOAA where the young ladies obtained their Open Water Scuba Certification, Peak Performance Buoyancy Speciality, Dive Against Debris, Project Aware, Project Aware Coral Reef Conservation and Project Aware Shark Aware Conservation programs - along with their Emergency First Response. These young ladies are true Ambassadors for the environment and Im so lucky too have them as partners in the outreach on St Croix.

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