Dive Against Debris Data Submission
ADS184 - Gold Coast Seaway
3 January, 2018
- Team Leader
- Kelly Fletcher
- Number of Participants
- 1
- Total Debris Collected
- 8.4 kgs (measured)
-27.93664, 153.426301
Survey Information
- Location Name
- ADS184 - Gold Coast Seaway
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Environmental Divers
- City
- Gold Coast
- Country
- Australia
- Date
- 3 January, 2018
- Survey Duration
- 90 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: -27.93664
Longitude: 153.426301
- Weather Conditions
-
Fair
- Survey Depth Range
- 1–8 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 400 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- rock
- Ecosystem
- Man made seaway entrance, rock wall with sand bottom
- 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 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 1 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 3 |
| Plastic Fragments | 2 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 4 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 1 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 2 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 122 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 4 |
| Cloth Fragments | 6 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cardboard: Packaging & Cartons | 1 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 2 |
Additional Information
Highly used area.
Clothing
Fishing Line
Lead Sinkers
Hooks
Comments and Feedback
Fishing Gear Breakdown - Hard Lures - 2 Soft Lures - 1 Swivels - 26 Hooks - 27 Sinkers - 61 Trace - 5
Solo Snorkel on the Shelf from the Lighthouse point to South West Beach cleaning the shelf and rocks in the shallows on the way through. Unfortunately on a solo Snorkel I have no where to clip off a Camera and do not have enough hands so there are no in water shots of this adventure.
