Dive Against Debris Data Submission
ADS474 – Yellow Submarine
21 August, 2019
- Team Leader
- Monique Kooijman
- Number of Participants
- 6
- Total Debris Collected
- 8 kgs (estimated)
12.167578828148, -68.287359431149
Survey Information
- Location Name
- ADS474 – Yellow Submarine
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Dive Friends Bonaire
- City
- Kralendijk
- Country
- Netherlands Antilles
- Date
- 21 August, 2019
- Survey Duration
- 173 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 12.167578828148
Longitude: -68.287359431149
- Weather Conditions
-
sunny and windy
- Survey Depth Range
- 6.3–11.6 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 450 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- coral
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 6 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 7 |
| Fishing: Line | 38 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 3 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 3 |
| Sheeting: Tarpaulin, Plastic Sheets, Palette Wrap | 3 |
| Plastic Fragments | 43 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 3 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 9 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 2 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 1 |
| Cars & Car Parts | 1 |
| Pipes & Rebar | 4 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 2 |
| Metal Fragments | 2 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 1 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Inner-tubes & Rubber Sheets | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 6 |
| Towels/rags | 16 |
| Cloth Fragments | 2 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cardboard: Packaging & Cartons | 3 |
| Paper-books, Newspaper & Magazines, Etc. | 4 |
| Paper, Cardboard Fragments | 9 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Crustaceans | |
| Species or Common Name | baby crab |
| Number Entangled | 1 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | plastic bottle |
| Comments | the crab could not get out of the bottle due to sand, after gently scraping the sand out from the bottleneck the crab could be released unharmed |
| Other Animals | |
| Species or Common Name | baby sea urchin |
| Number Entangled | 1 |
| Status | injured |
| Type of Debris | in between a piece of cardboard packaging |
| Comments | it was flat instead of round with broken spines, we released it because it was still moving |
Additional Information
no specific event but there are a lot of people living on boats in this area, looks like they are careless with their bags of trash and their clothing lines. also it seems that fishermen use parts of plastic bottles because we found over a dozen plastic bottle tops with caps on them. seems that they cut of the top around 2/3 of the bottle, trying to find out what for, hope to report the reason next survey
hub cap
plastic cups
plastic bottle tops
fishing line
