Dive Against Debris Data Submission
ADS280 - Snoopy Island
4 August, 2017
- Team Leader
- Annie Halloran
- Number of Participants
- 2
- Total Debris Collected
- 5 kgs (estimated)
25.492166, 56.363483
Survey Information
- Location Name
- ADS280 - Snoopy Island
- Organization/Dive Centre
- The Dive Centre S24128
- City
- Fujairah
- Country
- United Arab Emirates
- Date
- 4 August, 2017
- Survey Duration
- 70 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 25.492166
Longitude: 56.363483
- Weather Conditions
-
Quite calm. Occasional swell but nothing too big.
- Survey Depth Range
- 2–6.7 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 509 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 | |
|---|---|
| Fishing: Line | 2 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 2 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 4 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 6 |
| Plastic Fragments | 5 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 5 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rubber Fragments | 1 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Furnishings (wood) | 2 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags (paper) | 1 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Lighter | 1 |
Additional Information
It is right by a hotel, so very easy for rubbish and things in pockets to be dropped/carried by the wind into the water. Fishing occurs often in Fujairah. They fish very close to Snoopy Island.
Lighter
Fishing Nets
Plastic fragments
Plastic pipes/PVC
