Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Gold Coast Seaway
1 May, 2016
- Team Leader
- Kelly Fletcher
- Number of Participants
- 5
- Total Debris Collected
- 59 kgs (measured)
-27.93664, 153.426301
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Gold Coast Seaway
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Environmental Divers
- City
- Brisbane
- Country
- Australia
- Date
- 1 May, 2016
- Survey Duration
- 145 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: -27.93664
Longitude: 153.426301
- Weather Conditions
-
Good
- Survey Depth Range
- 1–8 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 100 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- rock
- Ecosystem
- Man made seaway entrance, rock wall with sand bottom
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 5 |
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 1 |
| Bait Containers, Packaging | 3 |
| Balloons | 4 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 6 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 11 |
| Diapers/nappies | 1 |
| Fishing: Line | 15000 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 37 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 1 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 23 |
| Straws, Stirrers | 39 |
| Plastic Fragments | 57 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 22 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 7 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 3 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 7 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 3 |
| Pull Tabs-beverages | 2 |
| Metal Fragments | 2 |
| Fishing: Traps & Pots | 1 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 1115 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Condoms | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cloth Fragments | 20 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 18 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Shotgun Shells | 2 |
| Surfboard Fin | 1 |
| Boot Sole | 1 |
Additional Information
Majority of the dive spent on a rock shelf at approximately minimum depth 1m Max depth 3m. The water eddys here and waste tends to collect. A very surgy area of the Seaway.
Shotgun Shells
Fishing Line
Lead
Hooks
