Sandy Bay
19 September, 2017
- Team Leader
- Max Olofsson
- Number of Participants
- 2
- Total Debris Collected
- 30 kgs (estimated)
34.986326917112, 33.9787708372
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Sandy Bay
- Organization/Dive Centre
- PADI/Lucky Divers
- City
- Agia Napa
- Country
- Cyprus
- Date
- 19 September, 2017
- Survey Duration
- 75 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 34.986326917112
Longitude: 33.9787708372
- Weather Conditions
-
Calm
- Survey Depth Range
- 1–5 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 3500 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- rock
- Ecosystem
- rocky reef
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 4 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 3 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 4 |
| Bottles: Bleach/cleaner Bottles | 1 |
| Bottles: Oil/lube | 1 |
| Buoys & Floats (plastic & Foamed) | 1 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 3 |
| Carpet (synthetic) | 1 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 1 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 1 |
| Fishing: Line | 2 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 7 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 2 |
| Foam Insulation & Packaging | 1 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 3 |
| Gloves (latex) | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 2 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 7 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 1 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 12 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 1 |
| Pipes & Rebar | 1 |
| Metal Fragments | 3 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 2 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Other Fish | |
| Species or Common Name | White bream |
| Number Entangled | 1 |
| Status | dead |
| Type of Debris | Fishing net |
| Crustaceans | |
| Species or Common Name | Crab |
| Number Entangled | 1 |
| Status | dead |
| Type of Debris | Fishing net |
Additional Information
It is a beach with a lot of tourists. They drink, eat and do not care what so ever about what happens with their litter. The locals fish as well and naturally loose some lures from time to time but the nets should not be there as it is forbidden to net fish the area. Especially since part of the area surveyed is supposed to be a MPA.
Lilo/plastic mattress
Plastics of all kinds as everywhere else
Aluminium cans (beer and soda)
fishing line
Comments and Feedback
Main issue is as always the PLASTIC. Some days it drifts in from the open ocean in bulk and covers the whole coast line, the plastic needs to be regulated or completely banned for one time use purposes.
Sun cream can't be good. I swim every morning and you can taste the pollution from the suncream when you pass groups of people, and considering the ingredients in the lotions is most be devastating for the micro eco systems and small life like sea horses etc.
