Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Sirens Bay
9 June, 2022
- Team Leader
- Ben Breakspear
- Number of Participants
- 2
- Total Debris Collected
- 0.2 kgs (estimated)
35.949797, 14.404526
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Sirens Bay
- Organization/Dive Centre
- NDS
- Country
- Malta
- Date
- 9 June, 2022
- Survey Duration
- 55 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 35.949797
Longitude: 14.404526
- Weather Conditions
-
Windy the day before
- Survey Depth Range
- 2–8 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 2365 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- seagrass
- Ecosystem
- seagrass
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 3 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 1 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 1 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 2 |
| Gloves (latex) | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 5 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 2 |
| Metal Fragments | 2 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cloth Fragments | 2 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cardboard: Packaging & Cartons | 1 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Fishing line dispenser | 1 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Crustaceans | |
| Species or Common Name | Crab |
| Number Entangled | 1 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | Plastic bottle |
| Comments | Inside the plastic bottle. Spotted when counting debris but the crab was placed back into the sea unharmed |
Additional Information
Plastic bottles
Tin cans
Plastic wrappers
Comments and Feedback
We recently did a beach clean up here, lots of cigarette butts and plastic bottles found. There are a lot of bins by the coast but there is a lot of trash. Some of the bins aren't very deep and the wind blows the trash from the bins out into the street and sea.
