Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Pigeon Caye
18 August, 2018
- Team Leader
- Justin Benson
- Number of Participants
- 12
- Total Debris Collected
- 471 lbs (measured)
16.412604, -86.120888
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Pigeon Caye
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Bay Islands College of Diving
- City
- Utila, Bay Islands
- Country
- Honduras
- Date
- 18 August, 2018
- Survey Duration
- 180 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 16.412604
Longitude: -86.120888
- Weather Conditions
-
2-4 knot very calm winds
- Survey Depth Range
- 6–12 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 15 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- silt
- Ecosystem
- seagrass
- 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) | 16 |
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 37 |
| Baskets, Crates | 2 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 57 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 116 |
| Bottles: Bleach/cleaner Bottles | 7 |
| Buckets, Drums & Jerrycans-2 Liters Or More | 3 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 3 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 17 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 87 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 15 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 2 |
| Sheeting: Tarpaulin, Plastic Sheets, Palette Wrap | 6 |
| Straws, Stirrers | 3 |
| Toothbrushes | 7 |
| Plastic Fragments | 164 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 3 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 71 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Appliances: Household | 4 |
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 117 |
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 49 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 14 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 137 |
| Metal Fragments | 50 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Condoms | 4 |
| Inner-tubes & Rubber Sheets | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags (burlap) | 11 |
| Bags (cloth) | 1 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags (paper) | 11 |
| Cardboard: Packaging & Cartons | 1 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 7 |
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 7 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Marine Mammals | |
| Species or Common Name | Long Snout Seahorse, Channel Clinging Crab, Squid, Damsel Fish, and Octopus |
| Number Entangled | 2 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | Sea Horse attached to plastic |
| Comments | We removed debris that had a Seahorse attached, squid swimming through trash, Channel Clinging Crabs attached, and even an Octopus. |
Additional Information
Cargo ship dropping supplies internationally and unintentionally. In addition to this, man made waste being discarded into the ocean directly and running off of the island itself into the oceam/
Plastic Radio, Toilet Seat, and the top half of a Washing Machine.
Oil Filters, due to the contamination they have caused the environment
100 + meters of electrical wires and sockets, was so large it took several divers and lift bags to remove
Fiberglass, approximately 40 pounds we removed of it alone.
Comments and Feedback
We are going to make another trip to this site during AWARE Week, and we are hopefully going to be able to bring a barge out to remove the remaining roughly 3,000-4,000 pounds of debris that have been left here sadly.
