CleanUp Skopelos town Beach
19 May, 2021
- Team Leader
- Kostas Danis
- Number of Participants
- 8
- Total Debris Collected
- 40 kgs (estimated)
39.119929453558, 23.732368262317
Survey Information
- Location Name
- CleanUp Skopelos town Beach
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Skopelos Dive Center
- City
- Skopelos
- Country
- Greece
- Date
- 19 May, 2021
- Survey Duration
- 50 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 39.119929453558
Longitude: 23.732368262317
- Weather Conditions
-
Calm weather with mild winds, sunny, 28C temp
- Survey Depth Range
- 1–4 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 450 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- silt
- Ecosystem
- sandy seabed
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 17 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 3 |
| Bottles: Bleach/cleaner Bottles | 4 |
| Buckets, Drums & Jerrycans-2 Liters Or More | 3 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 3 |
| Carpet (synthetic) | 11 |
| Fishing: Line | 4 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 2 |
| Plastic Fragments | 8 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 4 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 2 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 8 |
| Metal Fragments | 2 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags (burlap) | 7 |
| Bags (cloth) | 2 |
| Cloth Fragments | 2 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 2 |
Additional Information
An excessive rainfall in 2015 caused an immense amount of water to flood all the seafront area. Skopelos is a mountaineous island so the force of water carried away even voluminous objects like cars, motorbikes, urban firniture and a lot more which end up naturally in the sea. Since then we 've dived several times to retrive and recover whatever we could possibly handle, together with coastal support by tow trucks and others from the coast. Additionally one small river empties on this beach, bringing sediment and creating silt at the seafloor that covers most of the debris that ends up on the site.
one more car that was not recovered from the previous time because of the distance from the coast and the fact that is half burried in the sand.
debris from cloths
thin plastic bags
