Dive Against Debris Data Submission
ADS126 - Chilpo Beach Northern Rocky outcrop
31 August, 2019
- Team Leader
- William Henderson
- Number of Participants
- 1
- Total Debris Collected
- 5 kgs (estimated)
36.136072, 129.398292
Survey Information
- Location Name
- ADS126 - Chilpo Beach Northern Rocky outcrop
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Dive Against Debris Korea (Daegu)
- City
- Pohang
- Country
- South Korea
- Date
- 31 August, 2019
- Survey Duration
- 55 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 36.136072
Longitude: 129.398292
- Weather Conditions
-
Calm.
- Survey Depth Range
- 1–6 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 1483.7 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- rocky 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) | 3 |
| Balls | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 1 |
| Buoys & Floats (plastic & Foamed) | 7 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 1 |
| Fishing: Line | 9 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 8 |
| Gloves (latex) | 3 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 86 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 14 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 3 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 1 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 2 |
| Metal Fragments | 1 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rubber Fragments | 1 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Wood Fragments | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags (burlap) | 1 |
| Gloves (cloth) | 3 |
| Rope And String (cloth) | 3 |
| Cloth Fragments | 9 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| plastic gloves ( food service) | 5 |
Additional Information
The summer beach season is mostly over, and as expected alot of the debris I am finding is newer and more household/end user related
plastic gloves (food service type)
various plastic packaging
Comments and Feedback
This was the first of 2 dives that day. On this dive I more or less stayed in the usual area and removed various light/easily bagged debris. There was a good deal of lose plastic all around
