Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Flinders Pier
13 September, 2014
- Team Leader
- Ocean Divers
- Number of Participants
- 23
- Total Debris Collected
- 30 kgs (estimated)
-38.475472, 145.025008
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Flinders Pier
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Ocean Divers
- City
- Flinders
- Country
- Australia
- Date
- 13 September, 2014
- Survey Duration
- 50 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: -38.475472
Longitude: 145.025008
- Weather Conditions
-
Calm seas - 5 knot Northerly winds - 20 degrees and partly cloudy
- Survey Depth Range
- 0.5–5 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 20356 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- seagrass
- Ecosystem
- seagrass
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 2 |
| Bait Containers, Packaging | 5 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 1 |
| Cigarette Lighters | 2 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 1 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 3 |
| Fishing: Line | 100 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 10 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 6 |
| Mesh Bags: Fruit/vegetable/shellfish | 1 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 2 |
| Plastic Fragments | 50 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 40 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 27 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Batteries: AA, AAA, C & D, 6V, 9V, Etc. | 17 |
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 9 |
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 4 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 53 |
| Cars & Car Parts | 1 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 6 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 68 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rubber Bands | 20 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Towels/rags | 3 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Paper, Cardboard Fragments | 4 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bricks, Cinderblocks & Chunks Of Cement | 1 |
Additional Information
Large amount of Fishing related waste. Extreme amount of fishing line, lures, sinkers and parts of fishing rods/poles. Another big waste item was batteries AA, AAA etc.
Car window sun protector
Fishing line
Lures
Batteries
