Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Horseshoe and Grecian Rocks
20 June, 2021
- Team Leader
- Michael Creese
- Number of Participants
- 7
- Total Debris Collected
- 200 lbs (estimated)
25.08362, -80.17641
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Horseshoe and Grecian Rocks
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Island Ventures
- City
- Key Largo
- Country
- United States
- Date
- 20 June, 2021
- Survey Duration
- 120 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 25.08362
Longitude: -80.17641
- Weather Conditions
- Survey Depth Range
- 6–25 feet
- Area Surveyed
- 1000 ft2
- Dominant Substrate
- coral
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Buoys & Floats (plastic & Foamed) | 1 |
| Fishing: Line | 3 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 2 |
| Plastic Fragments | 2 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 6 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 2 |
| Metal Fragments | 2 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 3 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Lumber (processed Or Cut/milled Wood) | 18 |
| Wood Fragments | 15 |
| Fishing: Traps & Pots | 3 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bricks, Cinderblocks & Chunks Of Cement | 3 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Marine Mammals | |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Crustaceans | |
| Species or Common Name | Spiney Lobster |
| Number Entangled | 8 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | Lobster traps |
| Comments | Trapped in a ghost lobster trap |
Additional Information
Hurricane Irma
Trap full of lobsters
Ghost and broken lobster traps
Fishing line
rope
Comments and Feedback
A group of 7 divers helped to clear the debris field north of Horseshoe reef of 1 complete ghost trap, many feet of trap line and general trap debris. We also cleared the area seaward of Grecian rocks, our intention was to clear the ghost bouys and traps. We recovered 1 ghost trap.
