Dive Against Debris Data Submission
ADS305 - House Reef
16 July, 2019
- Team Leader
- Kim Timmers
- Number of Participants
- 4
- Total Debris Collected
- 0.54 kgs (measured)
28.141637121228, -16.43845876602
Survey Information
- Location Name
- ADS305 - House Reef
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Tenerife Diving Academy
- City
- Abades
- Country
- Spain
- Date
- 16 July, 2019
- Survey Duration
- 40 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 28.141637121228
Longitude: -16.43845876602
- Weather Conditions
-
Windy!
- Survey Depth Range
- 1.5–6 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 350 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- rocky reef
- Wave Conditions
- Slight for waves 0.5 -1.25 meter high
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 1 |
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 1 |
| Bait Containers, Packaging | 1 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 5 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 12 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 1 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 1 |
| Sheeting: Tarpaulin, Plastic Sheets, Palette Wrap | 6 |
| Plastic Fragments | 38 |
| Cigarette Filters | 11 |
| Strapping Bands (plastic) | 1 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 2 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 5 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 4 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 5 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 1 |
| Metal Fragments | 4 |
| Fishing: Traps & Pots | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cloth Fragments | 10 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Paper, Cardboard Fragments | 15 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Tampons | 1 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Hairbands | 4 |
| Metal nail | 1 |
Additional Information
Circus weekend, summer holidays, loads of people on the beach, throwing debris wherever they go.
Tampon
Cigarette butts
Fishing trap
Tiny plastic fragments
Comments and Feedback
It's sad there is still debris every day in a MPA, but it could be a lot worse.. Most debris is found close to the beach, so that's where most of it seems to come from.
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