Director's Bay
2 June, 2017
- Team Leader
- Apple Submission Test User Account
- Number of Participants
- 8
- Total Debris Collected
- 11 lbs (measured)
12.06588854293, -68.859985381332
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Director's Bay
- Organization/Dive Centre
- The Dive Bus
- City
- Curacao
- Country
- Netherlands Antilles
- Date
- 2 June, 2017
- Survey Duration
- 65 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 12.06588854293
Longitude: -68.859985381332
- Weather Conditions
-
Sunny and Windy
- Survey Depth Range
- 3–18 feet
- Area Surveyed
- 2500 ft2
- Dominant Substrate
- coral
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Fishing: Line | 500 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 4 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 5 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 17 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Plastic watch wristband | 1 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Other Fish | |
| Species or Common Name | Blenny |
| Number Entangled | 2 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | Fishing net |
| Comments | Tricky to untangle |
| Crustaceans | |
| Species or Common Name | Crab |
| Number Entangled | 1 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | Fishing net |
| Comments | It nipped me with it's claws! |
Additional Information
Local fishermen
watch plastic wristband
fishing line
fishing hooks stuck in the coral
fishing lead sinkers
Comments and Feedback
We did a clean up at Director's Bay two months ago and it was very rewarding having to pick up less fishing line, hooks and sinkers this time!
Divers volunteers cleaned up the perspolise dive site on the beautiful island of Qeshm. On May 11, a program in partnership with various groups to clean up the sea began at the beginning of Golden Beach club to meet the goals and methods principles of the program held Grydd then 15 divers with three boats to the site of Persepolis and within 45 minutes scuba diving site to clean marine debris ... Participants in this plan are include of : 1-Iran marina divers 2- Staff Golden Beach Diving Club 3- Aqualand Dive Shop 4- Abkavan Diving Club 5- Department of Environment Qeshm island Divers participants : Saeid parvin - Ahmad dolatkhahi - Mohammad reza shadgard - Mehdi saberi - Pedram lotffizadeh - Vahid rasoolinejad - Mohammad ali habibi - Mohammad ghavasi - Bahadur Shekarchi zadeh - Danial alboghobish - Maryam azin - Ehsan tavakoli - Hamida Masoudi and Special thanks to collaboration: Vahed Rajai - Ahmad Rastegar - Mosa kazemi far
