Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Strayhorn Swim Beach
22 April, 2017
- Team Leader
- John Colterman
- Number of Participants
- 6
- Total Debris Collected
- 208 lbs (measured)
35.616806351879, -95.059520602226
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Strayhorn Swim Beach
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Gene's Aqua Pro
- City
- Gore
- Country
- United States
- Date
- 22 April, 2017
- Survey Duration
- 70 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 35.616806351879
Longitude: -95.059520602226
- Weather Conditions
-
Storms the day before, good weather with some rain the rest of the week.
- Survey Depth Range
- 1.5–10 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 300 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- rock
- Ecosystem
- Rocky/silty lake bottom with minor algea growth
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 2 |
| Balls | 6 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 40 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 8 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 1 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 53 |
| Fishing: Line | 5 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 4 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 2 |
| Plastic Fragments | 36 |
| Strapping Bands (plastic) | 1 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 4 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 67 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 383 |
| Cars & Car Parts | 2 |
| Pipes & Rebar | 2 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 3 |
| Metal Fragments | 3 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 3 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Tires/tyres | 1 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Wood Fragments | 1 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 4 |
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 6 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| sunglasses | 6 |
| anchor | 1 |
Additional Information
Glass bottles - risk to swimmers and marine life due to sharp edges
metal cans - when partially degraded have sharp edges and small sharp fragemnts that ould be ingested causing internal damag
plastic bottles and drink cups - small partical ingested by marine life, huge amount in the lake and quickly gets deteriorated into uncollectable, yet still harmfull, pieces.
Comments and Feedback
add sunglasses to the premade list of debris? In my experience there are always some on a trash dive, ocean or lake.
Most trash is outside of the roped-off swim area and was most likely thrown off boats.
