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Dive Against Debris Data Submission

Shark Bay

9 June, 2018

Team Leader
Patrick Keenan
Number of Participants
4
Total Debris Collected
38 kgs (measured)

-41.300585922963, 174.81743928689

Survey Information

Location Name
Shark Bay
Organization/Dive Centre
Dive HQ Petone
City
Wellington
Country
New Zealand
Date
9 June, 2018
Survey Duration
42 Minutes
GPS Coordinates
Latitude: -41.300585922963
Longitude: 174.81743928689
Weather Conditions
Survey Depth Range
2–14.2 meters
Area Surveyed
7762 m2
Dominant Substrate
silt
Ecosystem
rocky reef
Wave Conditions
Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
plastic materials collected
Bags: Trash (plastic) 4
Balls 4
Caps & Lids (plastic) 1
Food Wrappers (plastic) 1
Plastic Fragments 3
Rope (plastic/nylon) 2
glass materials collected
Jars-food (glass) 3
Glass & Ceramic Fragments 43
Beverage Bottles (glass) 62
metal materials collected
Beverage Cans (aluminium) 9
Cars & Car Parts 3
Metal Fragments 2
rubber materials collected
Condoms 1
Inner-tubes & Rubber Sheets 2
cloth materials collected
Cloth Fragments 2
paper materials collected
Paper, Cardboard Fragments 5
mixed materials collected
Clothing 1
Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc 1
Entangled Animals
Other Fish
Species or Common Name Triple Fin
Number Entangled 4
Status released unharmed
Type of Debris Glass bottles
Comments Fish hiding in glass bottles
Other Animals
Species or Common Name Octopus
Number Entangled 1
Status released unharmed
Type of Debris Glass bottle
Comments baby octopus hiding inside glass bottle

Car bumper light

Glass bottles - huge volume


A great day organised by Sea Shepherd! A northerly wind meant that a huge amount of rubbish had washed onto shore. Sea Shepherds group of 45 volunteers did an amazing job and pulled in more rubbish than ever before! Our group of four divers pulled up 6 full catch bags of mostly glass bottles and a few metal scraps from a car. This was the second clean up at Shark bay this year and still there is no shortage of debris to pick up. Had we had more time and divers there is no doubt we would have made an even bigger impact to the site.

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