Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Port Vila Seafront
27 September, 2020
- Team Leader
- Christina Shaw
- Number of Participants
- 13
- Total Debris Collected
- 112.5 kgs (measured)
-17.737198564103, 168.31207400072
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Port Vila Seafront
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Big Blue Vanuatu
- City
- Port Vila
- Country
- Vanuatu
- Date
- 27 September, 2020
- Survey Duration
- 55 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: -17.737198564103
Longitude: 168.31207400072
- Weather Conditions
-
Sunny
- Survey Depth Range
- 3–17 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 12144.6 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- 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) | 1 |
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 1 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 2 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 3 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 13 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 3 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 1 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 5 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cups & Plates-tableware/dishes (glass & Ceramic) | 4 |
| Jars-food (glass) | 4 |
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 34 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 61 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 52 |
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 6 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 1 |
| Forks, Knives, Spoons (cutlery) | 1 |
| Pipes & Rebar | 7 |
| Strapping Bands (metal) | 1 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Furnishings (wood) | 1 |
| Wood Fragments | 1 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Piece of silt curtain | 1 |
| Sunglasses plastic | 1 |
| Plastic car part | 1 |
| Piece of fibreglass from boat | 1 |
| DVD | 2 |
| Scourer | 1 |
| Piece of a wooden boat | 1 |
| PVC ceiling | 1 |
| Umbrella | 1 |
| Surgical mask | 1 |
| Plastic tag | 1 |
| Credit card | 1 |
Additional Information
Cyclone Pam in 2015 and Beautification of seafront project in 2017/18
Silt curtain
Beverage bottles and cans because we keep picking up lots of them
Food wrappers b cause we keep picking up lots of them
Debris from boats wrecked in cyclone
