Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Pigeon Cay
4 August, 2019
- Team Leader
- MARIA EUGENIA DARINO
- Number of Participants
- 10
- Total Debris Collected
- 238 kgs (measured)
16.064776955333, -86.964551554049
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Pigeon Cay
- Organization/Dive Centre
- UTILA WATER SPORTS
- City
- UTILA
- Country
- Honduras
- Date
- 4 August, 2019
- Survey Duration
- 62 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 16.064776955333
Longitude: -86.964551554049
- Weather Conditions
-
CALM
- Survey Depth Range
- 2–10 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 700 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- SAND
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 20 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 27 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 80 |
| Bottles: Bleach/cleaner Bottles | 1 |
| Bottles: Oil/lube | 3 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 5 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 25 |
| Fishing: Line | 2 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 102 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 14 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 1 |
| Straws, Stirrers | 1 |
| Tobacco Packaging & Wrappers | 2 |
| Plastic Fragments | 200 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 1 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 20 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 30 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 70 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 10 |
| Metal Fragments | 15 |
| Fishing: Traps & Pots | 10 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rubber Fragments | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cloth Fragments | 7 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 3 |
| Toys | 1 |
Additional Information
is a small island so most of the people put the rubish in the sea. We even found a whole metal roof underwater. In one house they changed the roof and the old metal parts went to the sea right below the house.
skateboard
single use plastic
fishing nets and traps
plastic bottles
