Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Goby Point
19 April, 2018
- Team Leader
- Ronald Hofstee
- Number of Participants
- 6
- Total Debris Collected
- 6 kgs (estimated)
9.9334103555911, 123.38505366503
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Goby Point
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Magic Island Dive Resort
- City
- Moalboal
- Country
- Philippines
- Date
- 19 April, 2018
- Survey Duration
- 40 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 9.9334103555911
Longitude: 123.38505366503
- Weather Conditions
-
calm water, no current, 15m vis
- Survey Depth Range
- 2–5 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 3515.02 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- seagrass
- 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) | 7 |
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 4 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 2 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 3 |
| Fishing: Line | 4 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 7 |
| Plastic Fragments | 11 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 3 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 4 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 4 |
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 2 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags (burlap) | 1 |
Additional Information
Just the normal unawareness of the general public
plastic
plastic
plastic
Comments and Feedback
Good news times two. We decided to do a few surveys and clean ups around our area, after diving our more usual dive spots and not finding any trash to collect (good news number one) We decided to head to an area seldom dived in Moalboal bay, and found quite a bit to clean up. You can see by our result, we removed quite a bit of plastic debris from the ocean (good news number two) it also show how divers treat every dive as a clean up dive, so the next time you are on a dive and you see a bit of plastic, just remember every little bit goes a very long way.
