Dive Against Debris Data Submission
ADS88 - Dive Bus House Reef
22 April, 2017
- Team Leader
- PADI Master Instructor Ivana 356300
- Number of Participants
- 22
- Total Debris Collected
- 32 kgs (estimated)
12.088975, -68.905175
Survey Information
- Location Name
- ADS88 - Dive Bus House Reef
- Organization/Dive Centre
- The Dive Bus
- City
- Curacao
- Country
- Netherlands Antilles
- Date
- 22 April, 2017
- Survey Duration
- 62 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 12.088975
Longitude: -68.905175
- Weather Conditions
-
Sunny and Windy
- Survey Depth Range
- 1–18 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 3000 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 | |
|---|---|
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 4 |
| Balloons | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 6 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 2 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 12 |
| Fishing: Line | 33 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 13 |
| Plastic Fragments | 61 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Jars-food (glass) | 2 |
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 192 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 31 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 27 |
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 1 |
| SCUBA Weights | 2 |
| Metal Fragments | 7 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 10 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cloth Fragments | 21 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Paper, Cardboard Fragments | 3 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 3 |
| Tampons | 1 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| maxi pad with wings | 1 |
| durex | 1 |
Additional Information
Local fishermen. A lack of debris education in schools, on the island in general. Locals need to understand how much they are damaging their lovely ocean and reef. Tourist need to be more aware too.
Tampon
glass and can beer bottles
fabric
fishing line
Comments and Feedback
We all together can make a difference, more dive shops should adopt a dive site.
Saturday night at Mambo beach, Wet&Wild organized a party to celebrate 20 years. Great party on the beach however no one cares about the amount of plastic that was in the ocean all night. Yes the following day they clean it up, it is too late though.
