Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Aguadulce, Almería, Spain
11 October, 2014
- Team Leader
- Fernando Orri y Alejandra Pérez
- Number of Participants
- 34
- Total Debris Collected
- 45 kgs (measured)
36.811803, -2.565784
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Aguadulce, Almería, Spain
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Aquatours Almería y Ayuntamiento de Roquetas de Mar
- City
- Aguadulce
- Country
- Spain
- Date
- 11 October, 2014
- Survey Duration
- 46 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 36.811803
Longitude: -2.565784
- Weather Conditions
-
A little windy but the sea was calm.
- Survey Depth Range
- 2–5 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 29391 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- Seagrass meadows of Posidonia oceanica on sand
- Ecosystem
- Posidonia oceanica reef, and meadows
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 30 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 4 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 18 |
| Cigarette Lighters | 1 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 2 |
| Fishing: Line | 3 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 4 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 7 |
| Tampon Applicators | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 15 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 10 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 25 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 6 |
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 1 |
| Pipes & Rebar | 3 |
| SCUBA Weights | 2 |
| Metal Fragments | 2 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 2 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Furnishings (wood) | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cloth Fragments | 6 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Paper, Cardboard Fragments | 3 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 1 |
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 5 |
| Tampons | 1 |
| Toys | 4 |
Additional Information
Aguadulce beach is a touristic beach. Although we haven´t collected much rubbish because our county have a good process to collect it in this beach, much of the marine debris are due to tourist, fisherman that through bottles and tins directly to the sea, and to furtive fishers who prepare big plastic bottles to collect octopus (which is forbidden in our beaches)
A small dinosaur
Bottles and tins
Plastic bags
Plastic bottles prepare to catch octopus
Comments and Feedback
We considered that the bottom of the sea in Aguadulce´s beach have not much rubbish but it would be very important to control the forbidden fish of octopus in our beaches
