Dive Against Debris Data Submission
La Balsa Park #444200
23 June, 2022
- Team Leader
- Elliot Peters
- Number of Participants
- 6
- Total Debris Collected
- 40 kgs (estimated)
-26.685441, 153.134969
Survey Information
- Location Name
- La Balsa Park #444200
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Sunshine Coast Clean Up Divers
- City
- Bokarina
- Country
- Australia
- Date
- 23 June, 2022
- Survey Duration
- 50 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: -26.685441
Longitude: 153.134969
- Weather Conditions
-
Fine
- Survey Depth Range
- 1–6 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 8129.85 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- silt
- Ecosystem
- estuarine
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 3 |
| Buckets, Drums & Jerrycans-2 Liters Or More | 1 |
| Fishing: Line | 50 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 25 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 1 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 2 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 2 |
| Plastic Fragments | 3 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 2 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Batteries: AA, AAA, C & D, 6V, 9V, Etc. | 3 |
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 1 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 6 |
| Metal Fragments | 1 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 60 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Tires/tyres | 2 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 1 |
| Towels/rags | 1 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Computer Equipment & Other Electronic Devices | 1 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Boat trailer rollers | 3 |
| Vape | 1 |
| Sunglasses | 2 |
| Scooter | 2 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Crustaceans | |
| Species or Common Name | Box Crab |
| Number Entangled | 1 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | Tyre |
Additional Information
No
Scooters
Fishing lures
Hooks
Fishing line
Comments and Feedback
Divers split across site from multiple entry/exit points, hence the large area covered
Popular recreational fishing site with jagged substrate that catches a lot of fishing related debris. Number of fishing line is estimated on weight guessing guidelines by tangaroa blue, weight was equivalent to 250m of fishing line, so number of "line" represents that
