El Portet.Morairaante. Alicante.Spain
1 July, 2017
- Team Leader
- Steve Fenton
- Number of Participants
- 20
- Total Debris Collected
- 200 kgs (estimated)
38.686638888889, 0.14558333333333
Survey Information
- Location Name
- El Portet.Morairaante. Alicante.Spain
- Organization/Dive Centre
- El Portet Bay
- City
- Moraira
- Country
- Spain
- Date
- 1 July, 2017
- Survey Duration
- 999 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 38.686638888889
Longitude: 0.14558333333333
- Weather Conditions
-
Hot and mixed
- Survey Depth Range
- 1–7 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 1000 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- seagrass
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bricks, Cinderblocks & Chunks Of Cement | 200 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| sand | 200 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Marine Mammals | |
| Comments | The sea life has virtually disappeared |
Additional Information
The local government decided to dump thousands of tons of quarry sand onto the beach to make it bigger and failed to carry out any study as to the correct construction or type of sand required. This has resulted in the sand simply being washed into the bay. It now looks like a pea soup bay. The fish, dolphins and everything else have all gone. All that is left on the beach is very sharp gravel which is impossible to walk on if you want to make a shore entry. All of this done behind closed doors and without consultation.
https://www.facebook.com/TeuladaMorairaDigital/videos/1540543799318782/ here you can see what is happening and here https://www.facebook.com/eva.moraira/videos/1290057067746743/
Comments and Feedback
I hope you can the damage that is being done
