Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Gold Coast Seaway
28 February, 2016
- Team Leader
- Kelly Fletcher
- Number of Participants
- 7
- Total Debris Collected
- 14.2 kgs (measured)
-27.93664, 153.426301
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Gold Coast Seaway
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Environmental Divers
- City
- Brisbane
- Country
- Australia
- Date
- 28 February, 2016
- Survey Duration
- 30 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: -27.93664
Longitude: 153.426301
- Weather Conditions
-
Poor, heavy swell, storm surge.
- Survey Depth Range
- 2–8 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 10 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- rock
- Ecosystem
- Man made seaway entrance, rock wall with sand bottom
- Wave Conditions
- Moderate to rough for waves greater than 1.25 meters
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 2 |
| Bait Containers, Packaging | 2 |
| Balloons | 2 |
| Balls | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 4 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 3 |
| Carpet (synthetic) | 1 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 2 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 1 |
| Diapers/nappies | 1 |
| Fishing: Line | 700 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 5 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 2 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 2 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 1 |
| Straws, Stirrers | 2 |
| Tobacco Packaging & Wrappers | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 6 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 3 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 2 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 3 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Batteries: AA, AAA, C & D, 6V, 9V, Etc. | 2 |
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 5 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 2 |
| Pull Tabs-beverages | 1 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 3 |
| Fishing: Traps & Pots | 1 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 207 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rubber Fragments | 3 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 3 |
| Cloth Fragments | 2 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags (paper) | 2 |
| Paper, Cardboard Fragments | 3 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 1 |
| Computer Equipment & Other Electronic Devices | 1 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Nokia Cell Phone | 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 | Dead Yellow Spotted Moray, Entangled in his home trying to get out to feed, Hooked and twisted in line. |
Additional Information
Fishing Line
Lead
Hooks
