Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Tweed heads bay
19 August, 2018
- Team Leader
- Pierre Brits
- Number of Participants
- 15
- Total Debris Collected
- 20 kgs (estimated)
-28.169208587248, 153.54595411466
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Tweed heads bay
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Dive Den Scuba
- City
- Waterford
- Country
- Australia
- Date
- 19 August, 2018
- Survey Duration
- 60 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: -28.169208587248
Longitude: 153.54595411466
- Weather Conditions
-
Weather was great and has been for sometime
- Survey Depth Range
- 6–8 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 120 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- silt
- Ecosystem
- other
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 45 |
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 95 |
| Bait Containers, Packaging | 4 |
| Balls | 5 |
| Baskets, Crates | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 12 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 1 |
| Bottles: Oil/lube | 2 |
| Buoys & Floats (plastic & Foamed) | 3 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 5 |
| Carpet (synthetic) | 2 |
| Cigarette Lighters | 1 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 5 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 5 |
| Fishing: Line | 13 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 6 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 1 |
| Foam Insulation & Packaging | 1 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 5 |
| Furnishings (plastic) | 2 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 3 |
| Straws, Stirrers | 2 |
| Tobacco Packaging & Wrappers | 2 |
| Toothbrushes | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 83 |
| Strapping Bands (plastic) | 1 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 2 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cups & Plates-tableware/dishes (glass & Ceramic) | 12 |
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 15 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 26 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Aerosol/spray Cans | 2 |
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 6 |
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 5 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 9 |
| Cups & Plates-tableware/dishes (metal) | 11 |
| Forks, Knives, Spoons (cutlery) | 7 |
| SCUBA Weights | 1 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 6 |
| Metal Fragments | 4 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 3 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Inner-tubes & Rubber Sheets | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags (burlap) | 1 |
| Bags (cloth) | 2 |
| Towels/rags | 3 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 4 |
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 5 |
| Toys | 4 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Marine Mammals | |
| Species or Common Name | none |
| Number Entangled | 1 |
| Status | injured |
| Type of Debris | fishing hook and line |
| Comments | butterfly fish hook was caught on the body of the fish with line that had broken off |
Additional Information
People throwing trash around and not placing that into the bins, which are washed into the water by means of drains, gulleys and run off areas which naturally will direct water into the ocean.
chair without the legs
Plastic bags
Soft drink cans
Alcohol bottles
