Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Sirens
10 May, 2023
- Team Leader
- Susannah Williams
- Number of Participants
- 2
- Total Debris Collected
- 4 kgs (measured)
35.949559, 14.40475
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Sirens
- Organization/Dive Centre
- NDS Malta
- Country
- Malta
- Date
- 10 May, 2023
- Survey Duration
- 50 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 35.949559
Longitude: 14.40475
- Weather Conditions
-
Windy
- Survey Depth Range
- 6–10 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 2427.87 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- rocky reef
- Wave Conditions
- Slight for waves 0.5 -1.25 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 10 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 3 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 1 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 38 |
| Fishing: Line | 4 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 1 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 6 |
| Plastic Fragments | 136 |
| Strapping Bands (plastic) | 1 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 4 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 6 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 1 |
| Metal Fragments | 1 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Condoms | 2 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 1 |
| Towels/rags | 10 |
| Cloth Fragments | 84 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Sanitary pad | 2 |
Additional Information
2 clean up events done the week before at the same location but more debris had been washed into the bay
Paint can lif
Plastic fragments
Plastic bottles
Fabric fragments
