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Dive Against Debris Data Submission

Lembongan reef

20 October, 2017

Team Leader
Kim van Winkel
Number of Participants
8
Total Debris Collected
20 kgs (estimated)

-8.6804120111468, 115.43884009123

Survey Information

Location Name
Lembongan reef
Organization/Dive Centre
Scuba Center Asia
City
Lembongan
Country
Indonesia
Date
20 October, 2017
Survey Duration
60 Minutes
GPS Coordinates
Latitude: -8.6804120111468
Longitude: 115.43884009123
Weather Conditions
Great weather, sunny, slightly windy and every now and than a bit rainy in the nights.
Survey Depth Range
4–12 meters
Area Surveyed
80 m2
Dominant Substrate
sand
Ecosystem
coral reef
Wave Conditions
Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
plastic materials collected
Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) 2
Balloons 3
Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) 4
Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) 11
Bottles: Bleach/cleaner Bottles 8
Bottles: Oil/lube 2
Cigar Tips 12
Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar 14
Diapers/nappies 3
Fishing: Line 5
Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets 1
SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins 1
Straws, Stirrers 19
Plastic Fragments 4
metal materials collected
Forks, Knives, Spoons (cutlery) 6
Strapping Bands (metal) 3
Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire 5
Metal Fragments 7
rubber materials collected
Rubber Fragments 4
wood materials collected
Wood Fragments 2
cloth materials collected
Cloth Fragments 2

The Lembongan reef is home to a Chinese platform, where everyday hundreds of Asian tourist come from Bali for Marine walking (!!!),lunch and to sit on a banana boat. Numerous of people leave numerous of debris behind in once a nice little reef. Now many sand and not as much marine life left. Many trafic of small boats, snorkelboats, bananaboats etc.

Boxershort and underwater case for camera

plastic cups

plastic bottle

glass


We plan every month a clean up dive here, since it is so much needed.

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