ADS126 - Chilpo Beach Northern Rocky outcrop
31 December, 2016
- Team Leader
- William Henderson
- Number of Participants
- 1
- Total Debris Collected
- 24 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 December, 2016
- Survey Duration
- 34 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 36.136072
Longitude: 129.398292
- Weather Conditions
-
Conditions were rough with 2.5 meters wages and 40-50km winds serval days of the past week
- Survey Depth Range
- 1–3.5 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 24 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 | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 4 |
| Buoys & Floats (plastic & Foamed) | 1 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 6 |
| Cigarette Lighters | 1 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 2 |
| Plastic Fragments | 23 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 7 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 3 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 2 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 5 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 3 |
| Metal Fragments | 7 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Tires/tyres | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Gloves (cloth) | 2 |
| Rope And String (cloth) | 1 |
| Cloth Fragments | 1 |
Additional Information
Strong surf conditions. many of the things I found ( especially the cans) seemed to have been in the water for a very long time.
Tire. It was one entangled within a new mass of rope and nets. Unlike the other mass I had been cutting free from an underwater pipe earlier in the year, this one is just a HUGE mass on the floor which appears to be not entangled with anything. This mass could easily be removed by a boat towing it free of the rocks, and several strong men and women to pull it ashore.
ropes
nets
general trash
Comments and Feedback
More than a few of the debris items I collected on this survey seemed to have not originated in S. Korea. Quite a few had Chinese language labels/markings.
Too much illegal trash dumping offshore. Most of the general trash is household/citizen use items...not industrial/fishing debris. Nets and ropes from ships ARE a problem, but the far larger issue is what simply appears to be general domestic trash being dumped offshore.
