Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Carr's Bay
5 December, 2015
- Team Leader
- Charley Bartlett
- Number of Participants
- 4
- Total Debris Collected
- 20 kgs (estimated)
16.796365, -62.20923
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Carr's Bay
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Montserrat Island Dive Centre
- City
- Carr's Bay
- Country
- Montserrat
- Date
- 5 December, 2015
- Survey Duration
- 66 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 16.796365
Longitude: -62.20923
- Weather Conditions
-
North swells earlier in the week, calming with Atlantic wind from opposite side of the island
- Survey Depth Range
- 3.2–5.5 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 1500 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 22 |
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 4 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 1 |
| Cigarette Lighters | 1 |
| Cigar Tips | 4 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 4 |
| Fishing: Line | 27 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 6 |
| Mesh Bags: Fruit/vegetable/shellfish | 1 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 2 |
| Straws, Stirrers | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 27 |
| Cigarette Filters | 3 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 4 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 1 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 11 |
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 15 |
| Cups & Plates-tableware/dishes (metal) | 1 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 5 |
| Metal Fragments | 5 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 4 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rubber Fragments | 2 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags (cloth) | 1 |
| Rope And String (cloth) | 13 |
| Towels/rags | 3 |
| Cloth Fragments | 12 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cardboard: Packaging & Cartons | 1 |
| Paper, Cardboard Fragments | 19 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Toys | 1 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Weed whacker broken in parts | 1 |
Additional Information
Gardening tools, there's no grass around!
plastic retail bags - wrapped around any corals with branches or stems
fishing wire - entangled and engulfed in the corals
clothing - smotthering young coral
Comments and Feedback
We all had a great time, the weather had kept us back from be able to enter the water for the past few weeks, but now we have completed one, everyone is keen to join us again and again to help keep the reef clean!
We shall continue with a monthly clean up on beach and the reef. All information collected is presented to the local government in an attempt to get more local awareness.
