Overheat reef
29 July, 2018
- Team Leader
- Felix
- Number of Participants
- 12
- Total Debris Collected
- 50 lbs (estimated)
16.321818191352, -86.582830326638
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Overheat reef
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Anthony's Key Resort
- City
- Roatan
- Country
- Honduras
- Date
- 29 July, 2018
- Survey Duration
- 40 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 16.321818191352
Longitude: -86.582830326638
- Weather Conditions
- Survey Depth Range
- 16–40 feet
- Area Surveyed
- 50 m2
- 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 | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 3 |
| Bottles: Oil/lube | 1 |
| Fishing: Line | 4 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 2 |
| Plastic Fragments | 6 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Pull Tabs-beverages | 3 |
| SCUBA Weights | 1 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 4 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 7 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Wood Fragments | 4 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Paper, Cardboard Fragments | 6 |
Additional Information
Pleasantly surprised about the lack of debris found on this dive site. Roatan Marine Park operates with diligence and great awareness to ensure we have rules in place to discourage waste. Most if not all dive operations on the island adhere to these rules and recommendations and as such creates a very clean environment in which to dive. We did not find one single cigarette filter, which was amazing!
An entire fishing line with 6 hook and weights attached!
fishing line, took a long time to unravel without damaging the reef
Comments and Feedback
The dive against debris was operated by Anthony's Key Resort during PADI's Womens Week event that took place at the resort from 23rd-29th of July. Our Dive Against Debris was done on the Friday at then end of the week. We also had other events such as Fish ID seminars, Beer (soda!!) pong championships, an oceanic quiz, a relay race and a BBQ on the Beach party!!! Thanks to everyone involved it was a great week!!!
