Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Gold Coast Seaway
3 March, 2016
- Team Leader
- Kelly Fletcher
- Number of Participants
- 6
- Total Debris Collected
- 15.7 kgs (measured)
-27.93664, 153.426301
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Gold Coast Seaway
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Environmental Divers
- City
- Brisbane
- Country
- Australia
- Date
- 3 March, 2016
- Survey Duration
- 42 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: -27.93664
Longitude: 153.426301
- Weather Conditions
-
Fine
- Survey Depth Range
- 1–17 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 20 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- rock
- Ecosystem
- Man made seaway entrance, rock wall with sand bottom
- Wave Conditions
- Slight for waves 0.5 -1.25 meter high
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 2 |
| Bait Containers, Packaging | 2 |
| Balloons | 5 |
| Balls | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 3 |
| Buoys & Floats (plastic & Foamed) | 1 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 6 |
| Cigarette Lighters | 1 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 3 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 5 |
| Fishing: Line | 9000 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 5 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 2 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 7 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 2 |
| Straws, Stirrers | 5 |
| Tobacco Packaging & Wrappers | 3 |
| Plastic Fragments | 9 |
| Cigarette Filters | 5 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 1 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 7 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 9 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Metal Fragments | 3 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rubber Fragments | 4 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cloth Fragments | 7 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Paper, Cardboard Fragments | 7 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 4 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bong | 1 |
| Jet Ski Cowling | 1 |
| Swimming Goggles | 1 |
| Wifi Modem | 1 |
| Gloves | 4 |
| Lighter | 1 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Marine Mammals | |
| Species or Common Name | Yellow Spotted Moray |
| Number Entangled | 1 |
| Status | dead |
| Type of Debris | Hook and line entangled |
| Comments | Hooked and bound outside his home. Drowned due to entanglement. |
Additional Information
Fishing Line
Lead
Hooks
