Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Cane Garden Bay
6 December, 2019
- Team Leader
- BVI SCUBA ORGANIZATION
- Number of Participants
- 5
- Total Debris Collected
- 55 lbs (estimated)
18.426052139595, -64.657943767007
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Cane Garden Bay
- Organization/Dive Centre
- BVI SCUBA ORGANIZATION
- City
- Cane Garden Bay
- Country
- British Virgin Islands
- Date
- 6 December, 2019
- Survey Duration
- 50 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 18.426052139595
Longitude: -64.657943767007
- Weather Conditions
-
Big Swell on North Side of Islands
- Survey Depth Range
- 5–50 feet
- Area Surveyed
- 45240 ft2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- seagrass
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 2 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 7 |
| Bottles: Oil/lube | 3 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 6 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 18 |
| Diapers/nappies | 2 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 3 |
| Sheeting: Tarpaulin, Plastic Sheets, Palette Wrap | 3 |
| Plastic Fragments | 8 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Jars-food (glass) | 3 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 21 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 8 |
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 2 |
| Pipes & Rebar | 1 |
| Pull Tabs-beverages | 5 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 4 |
| Metal Fragments | 7 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cardboard: Packaging & Cartons | 6 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Crustaceans | |
| Species or Common Name | Small Crab |
| Number Entangled | 2 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | inside cans |
| Comments | they were brought back to the sea alive |
Additional Information
Hurricane Irma 2017, and subsequent flooding
bottle of wine!
plastics of all kinds
drink containers from tourist and local beach goers
