Dive Against Debris Data Submission
ADS184 - Gold Coast Seaway
9 September, 2017
- Team Leader
- Kelly Fletcher
- Number of Participants
- 5
- Total Debris Collected
- 29.8 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
- 9 September, 2017
- Survey Duration
- 87 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: -27.93664
Longitude: 153.426301
- Weather Conditions
-
Calm
- Survey Depth Range
- 1–13 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 80 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- rock
- Ecosystem
- Man made seaway entrance, rock wall with sand bottom
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 1 |
| Bait Containers, Packaging | 2 |
| Balls | 2 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 1 |
| Fishing: Line | 250 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 1 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 14 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 4 |
| Plastic Fragments | 1 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 4 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 1 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 2 |
| Pipes & Rebar | 1 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 1 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 270 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cloth Fragments | 5 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 2 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Pen | 1 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Marine Mammals | |
| Species or Common Name | Bream |
| Number Entangled | 2 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | Hook and line entangled |
| Comments | Hook and Line removed and fish released as unharmed as possible. |
Additional Information
Highly fished area
A sign
Fishing Line
Lead Sinkers
Hooks
Comments and Feedback
113 Lead Sinkers 64 Hooks 87 Swivels 6 Hard Lures
