Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Home Reef, Paradise Beach, Mykonos
12 September, 2017
- Team Leader
- Mykonos Diving Center staff
- Number of Participants
- 4
- Total Debris Collected
- 25 kgs (estimated)
37.409862285562, 25.356670618057
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Home Reef, Paradise Beach, Mykonos
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Mykonos Diving Center
- City
- Paradise Beach
- Country
- Greece
- Date
- 12 September, 2017
- Survey Duration
- 88 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 37.409862285562
Longitude: 25.356670618057
- Weather Conditions
-
Calm
- Survey Depth Range
- 2–15 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 400 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- Sand, rocky reef, seagrass
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Balls | 2 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 4 |
| Buoys & Floats (plastic & Foamed) | 3 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 5 |
| Cigarette Lighters | 10 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 22 |
| Fishing: Line | 5 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 1 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 1 |
| Tobacco Packaging & Wrappers | 1 |
| Toothbrushes | 2 |
| Plastic Fragments | 15 |
| Cigarette Filters | 31 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 2 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cups & Plates-tableware/dishes (glass & Ceramic) | 5 |
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 10 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 15 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Batteries: AA, AAA, C & D, 6V, 9V, Etc. | 1 |
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 13 |
| Pipes & Rebar | 2 |
| Metal Fragments | 15 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 6 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Condoms | 1 |
| Rubber Bands | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 9 |
| Towels/rags | 5 |
| Cloth Fragments | 4 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Paper-books, Newspaper & Magazines, Etc. | 4 |
| Paper, Cardboard Fragments | 40 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 3 |
| Fireworks | 10 |
| Tampons | 1 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Jet Ski fragments | 2 |
| Paddle | 1 |
| Carabiner | 2 |
| sunglasses | 1 |
Additional Information
Changes in wind and current.
Moet Champagne bucket
plastic cups
glass bottles
beer cans
Comments and Feedback
This was a specific event to clean our dive site on the beach, but we dive here every day and always come up with plastic cups and glass bottles as this is a party beach, so if we were to take that into account the amount of debris would be a lot higher.
