Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Main Beach, El Nido
15 September, 2018
- Team Leader
- Jon-Jon I. Suarez
- Number of Participants
- 4
- Total Debris Collected
- 90 kgs (estimated)
11.181442, 119.390772
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Main Beach, El Nido
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Submariner Diving Center and Sea Sphere Dive Center
- City
- El Nido
- Country
- Philippines
- Date
- 15 September, 2018
- Survey Duration
- 45 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 11.181442
Longitude: 119.390772
- Weather Conditions
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Torrential rain and gale-force winds. Typhoon Mangkhut (local name "Ompong", maximum sustained winds over 200 kph) caused all dives, boat tours and inter-island ferries to be cancelled.
- Survey Depth Range
- 2–3 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 1000 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- Sand with scattered rocks, corals and sea grass
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 5 |
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 2 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 7 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 15 |
| Bottles: Bleach/cleaner Bottles | 2 |
| Bottles: Oil/lube | 3 |
| Buoys & Floats (plastic & Foamed) | 1 |
| Fishing: Line | 6 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 3 |
| Sheeting: Tarpaulin, Plastic Sheets, Palette Wrap | 1 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 2 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 3 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 16 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Inner-tubes & Rubber Sheets | 2 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Towels/rags | 1 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Boat engine | 1 |
| Generator frame | 1 |
Additional Information
The main beach of El Nido town in Palawan is the busiest but sadly the most neglected part of this major tourist destination. As far as I can tell, this is the first time an underwater cleanup was organized here; hence, the unusually large amount of debris collected in a very small area.
Boat engine
Fishing lines
Soda cans
Plastic bottles
Comments and Feedback
I wrote about this survey in my blog: https://www.projectaware.org/updates/rain-or-shine-el-nido-dive-against-debrisr-awareweek
