Dive Against Debris Data Submission
ADS345 - Divewise House Reef
29 November, 2017
- Team Leader
- Howard Shaw
- Number of Participants
- 2
- Total Debris Collected
- 6 kgs (estimated)
35.924292, 14.493816
Survey Information
- Location Name
- ADS345 - Divewise House Reef
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Divewise
- City
- St Julians
- Country
- Malta
- Date
- 29 November, 2017
- Survey Duration
- 48 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 35.924292
Longitude: 14.493816
- Weather Conditions
-
Strong north easterly/easterly winds.
- Survey Depth Range
- 2–20 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 7693 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- rock
- Ecosystem
- rocky reef
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 4 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 2 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 1 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 1 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 2 |
| Plastic Fragments | 2 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 1 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 23 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 5 |
| Metal Fragments | 5 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags (cloth) | 1 |
| Cloth Fragments | 3 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cardboard: Packaging & Cartons | 1 |
Additional Information
Mainly due to the wind direction over the previous week, where light weight material is washed in to the area in front of the dive centre, and then is trapped by the shallow reef further out to sea.
Drink cans
