Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Tuncurry break wall
3 March, 2024
- Team Leader
- Chayce Kneller
- Number of Participants
- 5
- Total Debris Collected
- 10 kgs (estimated)
32, 152
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Tuncurry break wall
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Forster Dive Centre
- City
- Tuncurry
- Country
- Australia
- Date
- 3 March, 2024
- Survey Duration
- 60 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 32
Longitude: 152
- Weather Conditions
-
Some light rain, mostly hot conditions
- Survey Depth Range
- 2–5 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 1200 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- rock
- Ecosystem
- rocky reef
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 5 |
| Fishing: Line | 300 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 50 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 50 |
| Straws, Stirrers | 10 |
| Plastic Fragments | 50 |
| Cigarette Filters | 10 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 5 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 12 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 10 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 3 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 10 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 10 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rubber Fragments | 15 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cloth Fragments | 7 |
Additional Information
First clean up after the summer holidays
Fishing line
Soft plastics
