Dive Against Debris Data Submission
ADS254 - Flinders Pier
13 June, 2020
- Team Leader
- Jane Bowman & Liz Harper
- Number of Participants
- 21
- Total Debris Collected
- 40 kgs (estimated)
-38.475552085097, 145.0261080265
Survey Information
- Location Name
- ADS254 - Flinders Pier
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Ocean Divers
- City
- Bentleigh East
- Country
- Australia
- Date
- 13 June, 2020
- Survey Duration
- 80 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: -38.475552085097
Longitude: 145.0261080265
- Weather Conditions
-
Calm, light winds, no rain
- Survey Depth Range
- 0–4 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 50 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- seagrass
- Ecosystem
- seagrass
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 1 |
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 1 |
| Bait Containers, Packaging | 3 |
| Balls | 5 |
| Cigarette Lighters | 1 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 1 |
| Fishing: Line | 80 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 50 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 1 |
| Tobacco Packaging & Wrappers | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 6 |
| Cigarette Filters | 3 |
| Strapping Bands (plastic) | 2 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 2 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Jars-food (glass) | 2 |
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 14 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 14 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Batteries: AA, AAA, C & D, 6V, 9V, Etc. | 7 |
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 4 |
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 3 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 27 |
| Cups & Plates-tableware/dishes (metal) | 3 |
| Pipes & Rebar | 7 |
| Pull Tabs-beverages | 3 |
| Metal Fragments | 15 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 35 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rubber Bands | 8 |
| Rubber Fragments | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 1 |
| Towels/rags | 5 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Paper, Cardboard Fragments | 1 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bricks, Cinderblocks & Chunks Of Cement | 4 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Scissors | 1 |
| Ray ban Sunglasses | 1 |
Additional Information
First cleanup dive since lockdown in March (4 months), no foot traffic on pier, fishermen or boats utilising the pier, so we expected to find little rubbish underwater...unfortunately we were wrong :(
Corn cob!
Glass bottles
Fishing line and lures
Cylume sticks
