Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Biorock
15 October, 2015
- Team Leader
- Sian
- Number of Participants
- 3
- Total Debris Collected
- 11 kgs (measured)
-8.12884, 111.164067
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Biorock
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Trawangan Dive Centre
- City
- Materam
- Country
- Indonesia
- Date
- 15 October, 2015
- Survey Duration
- 47 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: -8.12884
Longitude: 111.164067
- Weather Conditions
-
Calm, no waves, no rain
- Survey Depth Range
- 3–18 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 200 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- silt
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 3 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 1 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 3 |
| Plastic Fragments | 1 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 7 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 1 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rubber Fragments | 1 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Other Animals | |
| Species or Common Name | polychete worm |
| Number Entangled | 1 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | bottle |
| Comments | Must have crawled out of a bottle, got released from mesh bag unharmed! |
Additional Information
Party boats moored up in Gili Trawangan, lack of rubbish laws and education and awareness amongst tourists
plastic bottles
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