ADS126 - Chilpo Beach Northern Rocky outcrop
8 April, 2017
- Team Leader
- William Henderson
- Number of Participants
- 1
- Total Debris Collected
- 12 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
- 8 April, 2017
- Survey Duration
- 35 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 36.136072
Longitude: 129.398292
- Weather Conditions
-
Mostly clear. Rained 3 days earlier.
- Survey Depth Range
- 1–4 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 11 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 | |
|---|---|
| Buoys & Floats (plastic & Foamed) | 21 |
| Fishing: Line | 16 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 2 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 21 |
| Plastic Fragments | 9 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Pipes & Rebar | 1 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 2 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 34 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rubber Fragments | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Gloves (cloth) | 1 |
| Rope And String (cloth) | 26 |
| Cloth Fragments | 44 |
Additional Information
Same stuff I was cutting free at this time of year in 2016. The sand seems to shift in late spring and summer covering most of this type of entangled debris thus not allowing me to get at it with a knife.
Computer monitor cable. One of the pieces I cut free was from a much larger mess an entangled ropes, cloth and wires. I was unable to get deep enough into the sand to cut a section with the computer cable.
nets
ropes
cloth
Comments and Feedback
I was very happy to not find ANY recent household/beachgoer/camper debris other than a single plastic bag. Everything other than that was entanglement I cut free, or otherwise random plastic/tape that seemed to have been in the ocean for years. I suppose as the weather warms up and more and more people begin to visit the ocean I will be finding more household trash.
