Ifira Point
2 February, 2019
- Team Leader
- Christina Shaw
- Number of Participants
- 7
- Total Debris Collected
- 73 kgs (measured)
-17.754677853877, 168.29552075954
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Ifira Point
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Big Blue Vanuatu
- City
- Port Vila
- Country
- Vanuatu
- Date
- 2 February, 2019
- Survey Duration
- 42 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: -17.754677853877
Longitude: 168.29552075954
- Weather Conditions
-
Heavy rain and wind through the week but sunny today
- Survey Depth Range
- 1–23 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 2200 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 3 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 54 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 15 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 235 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 1 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 5 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Jars-food (glass) | 1 |
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 9 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 20 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Aerosol/spray Cans | 1 |
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 89 |
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 23 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Lumber (processed Or Cut/milled Wood) | 2 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags (burlap) | 3 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bricks, Cinderblocks & Chunks Of Cement | 1 |
| Clothing | 4 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Paper cup | 1 |
| Scaffolding pole | 1 |
| Paint Brush | 1 |
| flares | 3 |
| paint roller | 1 |
| coat hanger | 1 |
| metal tune | 1 |
| radio antenna | 1 |
| Welding mask | 1 |
| headphones | 1 |
| disposable razor | 2 |
Additional Information
This is the third week of a cleanup project - see below for details The domestic wharf in Port Vila is being upgraded. However the project has stalled. As a temporary measure the domestic ships have been using a barge in the corner of the harbour very close to Ifira point beach as the temporary "wharf". Resident have notice a considerable increase in the amount of rubbish accumulating on the beach at Ifira point since this arrangement has been in place.
welding mask
food wrappers
Drinks cans
bottles
Comments and Feedback
This was part of cleanup demonstration project we completed with the Vanuatu Environmental Science Society and TierraMar under the UK Commonwealth Litter programme (CLiP). We cleaned up the beach and underwater once a week for 3 consecutive weeks to demonstrate how much rubbish is accumulating every week. A report of this project is available. Each week we collected rubbish along three 50 meter transects and calculated the amount of rubbish collected per sq m. The divers then collected some more debris from outside the transects as well. This report of rubbish collected is both the transect and out of transect data combined. This is the third week of rubbish collection. From the transects there was 33 pieces of litter 90% of it was plastic. We calculated there was one piece of plastic every 20 sq meters.
