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Dive Against Debris Data Submission

Port of Hoodsport

24 September, 2022

Team Leader
Katherine Yackel
Number of Participants
18
Total Debris Collected
860 lbs (measured)

47.403100538148, -123.1410678034

Survey Information

Location Name
Port of Hoodsport
Organization/Dive Centre
YSS Dive
City
Hoodsport
Country
United States
Date
24 September, 2022
Survey Duration
32 Minutes
GPS Coordinates
Latitude: 47.403100538148
Longitude: -123.1410678034
Weather Conditions
Sunny and calm
Survey Depth Range
3–60 feet
Area Surveyed
622 ft2
Dominant Substrate
sand
Ecosystem
seagrass
Wave Conditions
Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
plastic materials collected
Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) 4
Bait Containers, Packaging 10
Balls 30
Baskets, Crates 3
Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) 1
Buoys & Floats (plastic & Foamed) 11
Caps & Lids (plastic) 10
Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets 15
Food Wrappers (plastic) 5
Pipes (plastic-PVC) 20
glass materials collected
Glass & Ceramic Fragments 105
Beverage Bottles (glass) 11
metal materials collected
Beverage Cans (aluminium) 3
Forks, Knives, Spoons (cutlery) 5
Pipes & Rebar 5
Wrappers (foil/metal) 6
Batteries: Car Or Boat 1
Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks 20
rubber materials collected
Gloves (rubber) 2
Inner-tubes & Rubber Sheets 5
Tires/tyres 2
wood materials collected
Furnishings (wood) 3
Lumber (processed Or Cut/milled Wood) 15
cloth materials collected
Bags (cloth) 2
Gloves (cloth) 5
Rope And String (cloth) 15
Towels/rags 25
mixed materials collected
Computer Equipment & Other Electronic Devices 3
Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc 2
Toys 1
Entangled Animals
Crustaceans
Species or Common Name Red Rock Crab
Number Entangled 3
Status injured
Type of Debris Fishing line

Years and Years of throwing garbage into the Hood Canal and not understanding the impact on the oceans.

Car Battery from 1984 that looked like it was almost usable minus all the barnacles on it.

metal - how it we have so much

ropes and line - animals get tangled and divers can

tires - so many to even know how to start removing them


**update, for all the debris that the divers removed last weekend from the Port of Hoodsport clean-up, totals are in: ~total combined weight of debris 860lbs ~total weight we were able to recycle 280lbs which consisted of 182lbs of that being metal, 11lbs of glass, 88lbs of plastic and a car battery all on its own. ~total that went to landfill 580lbs that consisted mostly of rope, clothes, shoes, balls, toys, nets -total weight of the rope and line we recovered 40lbs

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