Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Bitter End Yacht Club shoreline
6 August, 2016
- Team Leader
- Ben Williams
- Number of Participants
- 4
- Total Debris Collected
- 400 lbs (estimated)
18.496561, -64.357352
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Bitter End Yacht Club shoreline
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Sunchaser Scuba
- City
- Virgin Gorda
- Country
- British Virgin Islands
- Date
- 6 August, 2016
- Survey Duration
- 75 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 18.496561
Longitude: -64.357352
- Weather Conditions
-
Calm, sunny weather
- Survey Depth Range
- 5–25 feet
- Area Surveyed
- 141995 ft2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- seagrass
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Baskets, Crates | 2 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 5 |
| Buoys & Floats (plastic & Foamed) | 1 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 15 |
| Carpet (synthetic) | 1 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 11 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 42 |
| Fishing: Line | 9 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 2 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 10 |
| Furnishings (plastic) | 9 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 6 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 2 |
| Sheeting: Tarpaulin, Plastic Sheets, Palette Wrap | 6 |
| Six-pack Rings, Ring Carriers | 6 |
| Straws, Stirrers | 2 |
| Plastic Fragments | 33 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cups & Plates-tableware/dishes (glass & Ceramic) | 6 |
| Jars-food (glass) | 14 |
| Light Globes/bulbs/tubes | 1 |
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 16 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 73 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Appliances: Household | 1 |
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 69 |
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 47 |
| Cars & Car Parts | 7 |
| Pipes & Rebar | 6 |
| Pull Tabs-beverages | 36 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 5 |
| Metal Fragments | 11 |
| Fishing: Traps & Pots | 2 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Tires/tyres | 2 |
| Rubber Fragments | 26 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Furnishings (wood) | 6 |
| Lumber (processed Or Cut/milled Wood) | 4 |
| Wood Fragments | 19 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 8 |
| Towels/rags | 43 |
| Cloth Fragments | 9 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Paper, Cardboard Fragments | 15 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bricks, Cinderblocks & Chunks Of Cement | 2 |
| Clothing | 4 |
| Computer Equipment & Other Electronic Devices | 7 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Other Animals | |
| Species or Common Name | octopus |
| Number Entangled | 1 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | bottle |
| Comments | an octopus crawled out of a bottle once the bottle was tossed on the boat, it was release back into the water unharmed |
Additional Information
Yes, there is a trash barge where all the trash gets thrown in to bring across to the other side of the island. there is no lit on the barge so in winds, a lot of the trash blows in the water. Also there are a lot of charter boats so people will leave their towels hanging up on the boat which get blown into the wind and these are probably responsible for the many beer bottles etc.
a bottle of veuve cliquot, unopened
beer bottles, animals might get trapped inside
small plastic as animals might eat it
carboard, because it breaks up and you can't bring it up
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