Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Centara Grand lagoon
21 September, 2024
- Team Leader
- Ismail samooh
- Number of Participants
- 17
- Total Debris Collected
- 44 kgs (estimated)
3.5924983955571, 72.882521669057
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Centara Grand lagoon
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Best Dives/Centara Grand
- City
- South ari Atoll
- Country
- Maldives
- Date
- 21 September, 2024
- Survey Duration
- 60 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 3.5924983955571
Longitude: 72.882521669057
- Weather Conditions
-
Sunny/medium current
- Survey Depth Range
- 3–8 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 100 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Slight for waves 0.5 -1.25 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 9 |
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 6 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 5 |
| Buckets, Drums & Jerrycans-2 Liters Or More | 3 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 3 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 1 |
| Fishing: Line | 7 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 6 |
| Gloves (latex) | 1 |
| Mesh Bags: Fruit/vegetable/shellfish | 3 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 5 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 2 |
| Sheeting: Tarpaulin, Plastic Sheets, Palette Wrap | 23 |
| Plastic Fragments | 12 |
| Strapping Bands (plastic) | 1 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 15 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 7 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 5 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 7 |
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 1 |
| Pipes & Rebar | 4 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 21 |
| Metal Fragments | 4 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Gloves (rubber) | 1 |
| Rubber Fragments | 7 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Wood Fragments | 19 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Gloves (cloth) | 2 |
| Towels/rags | 3 |
| Cloth Fragments | 5 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bricks, Cinderblocks & Chunks Of Cement | 3 |
| Clothing | 2 |
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 3 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Crustaceans | |
| Species or Common Name | crabs |
| Number Entangled | 4 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | towel and rope |
