Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Caletita / Playa cosmica
28 January, 2025
- Team Leader
- Lore, MJ, Diana
- Number of Participants
- 13
- Total Debris Collected
- 10.8 kgs (measured)
20.494896563635, -86.964082479526
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Caletita / Playa cosmica
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Maple Leaf Scuba
- City
- Cozumel
- Country
- Mexico
- Date
- 28 January, 2025
- Survey Duration
- 48 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 20.494896563635
Longitude: -86.964082479526
- Weather Conditions
-
The port was close for four days, normally we expect to have trash in the area for the waves thatthe strong wind ocassioned.
- Survey Depth Range
- 3–7.5 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 1861 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- seagrass
- Ecosystem
- seagrass
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 3 |
| Cotton Bud Sticks | 1 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 2 |
| Fishing: Line | 4 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 1 |
| Straws, Stirrers | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 13 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 2 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Syringes (glass) | 58 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 13 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 1 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 6 |
| Cars & Car Parts | 7 |
| Pull Tabs-beverages | 3 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 1 |
| Metal Fragments | 7 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 1 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Inner-tubes & Rubber Sheets | 1 |
| Rubber Fragments | 5 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Wood Fragments | 2 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cloth Fragments | 1 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cardboard: Packaging & Cartons | 2 |
| Paper, Cardboard Fragments | 11 |
