Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Directors Bay
27 January, 2022
- Team Leader
- Laura van Loon
- Number of Participants
- 3
- Total Debris Collected
- 0.8 kgs (estimated)
12.065459, -68.86
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Directors Bay
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Dive with Laura
- City
- Willemstad
- Country
- Netherlands Antilles
- Date
- 27 January, 2022
- Survey Duration
- 54 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 12.065459
Longitude: -68.86
- Weather Conditions
-
Windy, sunny
- Survey Depth Range
- 0.5–16 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 250 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- coral
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Fishing: Line | 100 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 2 |
| Plastic Fragments | 3 |
| Strapping Bands (plastic) | 1 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 1 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 5 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 5 |
Additional Information
Local fishing bay where lure & bait is thrown into the ocean from a spool and simply cut off when fishing hooks are stuck on the ocean floor; resulting in dozens of meters of plastic fishing line and bait just discarted entangeling endangered shallow corals.
Polar beer bottle
fishing line
Comments and Feedback
Although the Dutch navy posts next door in Tugboat Beach, illegal speargun hunting in Directors Bay is also causing distruction to the shallow reef, where many endangered corals like elk- and staghorn colonies grow.
