Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Halik
23 September, 2021
- Team Leader
- Sian Williams
- Number of Participants
- 5
- Total Debris Collected
- 4 kgs (estimated)
-8.3389177460603, 116.03713280379
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Halik
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Trawangan Dive Centre
- City
- Gili Trawangan
- Country
- Indonesia
- Date
- 23 September, 2021
- Survey Duration
- 44 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: -8.3389177460603
Longitude: 116.03713280379
- Weather Conditions
-
One big rain, otherwise clean, clear, dry, windy
- Survey Depth Range
- 3–12.9 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 2000 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- coral
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- 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) | 1 |
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 12 |
| Fishing: Line | 2 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 3 |
| Sheeting: Tarpaulin, Plastic Sheets, Palette Wrap | 6 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Other Animals | |
| Species or Common Name | Coral |
| Number Entangled | 3 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | fishing nets smothering the reef |
| Comments | Sowly untangled underwater and remainders released to the ocean after |
Additional Information
Pandemic has caused great loss of jobs in tourism so many tourist operators have returned to fishing in undesignated zones. New development on the beach and illegal drilling into the coral reef. Big sheets of plastic tarp has been discarded from their work barge and left to pollute the reef.
Mickey mouse pants
fishing nets
long line fishing lines
