Dive Against Debris Data Submission
ADS199 - Hin Ngam Bay
13 November, 2016
- Team Leader
- Andrea Warren
- Number of Participants
- 11
- Total Debris Collected
- 25.2 kgs (measured)
10.0664, 99.8424
Survey Information
- Location Name
- ADS199 - Hin Ngam Bay
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Buddha View/ Dive-careers
- City
- Koh Tao
- Country
- Thailand
- Date
- 13 November, 2016
- Survey Duration
- 45 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 10.0664
Longitude: 99.8424
- Weather Conditions
-
-Very sunny
-light rain during the evenings
-wind started to pick up a little, then dropped back down again
- Survey Depth Range
- 1–8 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 40 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- coral
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 100 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 50 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 10 |
| Buoys & Floats (plastic & Foamed) | 1 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 4 |
| Cigarette Lighters | 1 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 10 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 35 |
| Straws, Stirrers | 3 |
| Plastic Fragments | 200 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 12 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Light Globes/bulbs/tubes | 1 |
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 6 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Appliances: Household | 1 |
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 2 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 4 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 11 |
| Metal Fragments | 1 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Condoms | 1 |
| Rubber Bands | 15 |
| Rubber Fragments | 3 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 150 |
| Towels/rags | 2 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Toys | 1 |
Additional Information
Debris being blown into the water from the shore. There are a lot of little bungalows and resorts nearby. It is also our monsoon season. weather has been actually been really nice this past week but October was very windy and rainy.
a plastic Buddha statue
tiny peices of plastic on the surface.
Plastic- bottles and little plastic bags
lots of rope
