Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Santai
17 March, 2019
- Team Leader
- Marion
- Number of Participants
- 2
- Total Debris Collected
- 3 kgs (estimated)
-8.340395, 115.667666
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Santai
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Bali Diversity
- City
- Bunutan
- Country
- Indonesia
- Date
- 17 March, 2019
- Survey Duration
- 30 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: -8.340395
Longitude: 115.667666
- Weather Conditions
-
Sunny little rain
- Survey Depth Range
- 3–21 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 357.4 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- coral
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 2 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 20 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags (burlap) | 1 |
| Cloth Fragments | 1 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Other Animals | |
| Species or Common Name | Coral |
| Number Entangled | 1 |
| Status | injured |
| Type of Debris | Cloth bag |
| Comments | Various coral colonies had been covered by a big mesh plastic bag for a while and colonied were showing advanced stage of bleaching. Removing the large bag couldn't be done without damaging a few branches. |
Additional Information
River beds and resorts nearby
Very large mesh plastic bag very entangled with corals
Comments and Feedback
Removing the large bag took 10min of our bottom time so we weren't able to collect so much.
New dive site and lots of garbage were left. We had to abort the dive after feeling an earthquake of 5.5 underwater.
