Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Scraggane Bay
1 November, 2022
- Team Leader
- Danny Oreilly
- Number of Participants
- 2
- Total Debris Collected
- 38.2 kgs (measured)
52.310434, -10.033643
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Scraggane Bay
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Waterworld #2731
- City
- Castlegregory
- Country
- Ireland
- Date
- 1 November, 2022
- Survey Duration
- 35 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 52.310434
Longitude: -10.033643
- Weather Conditions
-
Moderate rain fall, south westerly winds with a slow rising swell
- Survey Depth Range
- 2–4 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 235.59 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 | |
|---|---|
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 3 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Metal Fragments | 16 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Inner-tubes & Rubber Sheets | 1 |
| Tires/tyres | 1 |
| Rubber Fragments | 3 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 2 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Brush head | 1 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Crustaceans | |
| Species or Common Name | Crab |
| Number Entangled | 1 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | Metal |
| Comments | Was sat In Underneath a pile of metal grates, removed and released onto the sand bed |
Additional Information
Commercial fishermen throwing over discarded crab pots beyond repair & washed up plastic
Discarded metal crab pots
Plastic
Rubber
Comments and Feedback
This is our local training site so implementing clean ups regularly will ensure a healthy environment for all trainees
We used strong recycled rope and lift bags to retrieve the metal & tyres as they were to heavy to lift by hand, once the items were lifted & our pockets were full of smaller marine debris we surfaced to swim the lift bags to our point of exit
