Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Aow Leuk Koh Tao
17 April, 2023
- Team Leader
- Jennifer Dowling
- Number of Participants
- 7
- Total Debris Collected
- 21 kgs (measured)
10.093060819266, 99.853710560463
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Aow Leuk Koh Tao
- Organization/Dive Centre
- The Coral Tribe
- City
- Koh Tao
- Country
- Thailand
- Date
- 17 April, 2023
- Survey Duration
- 68 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 10.093060819266
Longitude: 99.853710560463
- Weather Conditions
-
Sunny
- Survey Depth Range
- 5–7.8 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 100 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 76 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 19 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 7 |
| Cigar Tips | 1 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 4 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 23 |
| Diapers/nappies | 1 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 20 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 117 |
| Gloves (latex) | 7 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 2 |
| Straws, Stirrers | 7 |
| Syringes (plastic) | 1 |
| Tobacco Packaging & Wrappers | 2 |
| Plastic Fragments | 178 |
| Cigarette Filters | 2 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 16 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 6 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 4 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 10 |
| Metal Fragments | 2 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Gloves (rubber) | 2 |
| Rubber Bands | 3 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Gloves (cloth) | 5 |
| Cloth Fragments | 8 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 5 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| PPE Mask | 41 |
| Plastic Burlaps | 4 |
| Pregnancy test | 1 |
| Ping Pong Ball | 1 |
| Plastic broom handle | 1 |
| paint roller | 1 |
| material hat | 1 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Marine Mammals | |
| Species or Common Name | crab |
| Number Entangled | 3 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | N/A |
