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Dive Against Debris Data Submission

Pemuteran Bay

20 April, 2020

Team Leader
Ana Mestek
Number of Participants
6
Total Debris Collected
26.4 kgs (measured)

-8.143201, 114.654898

Survey Information

Location Name
Pemuteran Bay
Organization/Dive Centre
Easy Divers Bali, Abyss Ocean World
City
Pemuteran
Country
Indonesia
Date
20 April, 2020
Survey Duration
54 Minutes
GPS Coordinates
Latitude: -8.143201
Longitude: 114.654898
Weather Conditions
Sunny, lots of rain showers
Survey Depth Range
2–16 meters
Area Surveyed
442 m2
Dominant Substrate
sand
Ecosystem
seagrass
Wave Conditions
Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
plastic materials collected
Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) 18
Balloons 1
Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) 108
Caps & Lids (plastic) 10
Diapers/nappies 9
Fishing: Line 1
Food Wrappers (plastic) 422
Straws, Stirrers 10
Tobacco Packaging & Wrappers 4
Toothbrushes 1
Cigarette Filters 1
Rope (plastic/nylon) 14
metal materials collected
Beverage Cans (aluminium) 2
Caps & Lids (metal) 1
Wrappers (foil/metal) 79
Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks 1
cloth materials collected
Cloth Fragments 3
mixed materials collected
Toys 1
other materials collected
Tube of face cream 1
Face mask 1
Female hygenic product 8
Entangled Animals
Other Animals
Species or Common Name Sea urchin
Number Entangled 1
Status released unharmed
Type of Debris Plastic tape
Comments Could not remove all of it.

Rain showers and floods

Face mask

Food wrappers

Plastic bags

Straws


Unusually high number of plastic beverage bottles

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