Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Marsalforn bay
21 July, 2013
- Team Leader
- Nana Cecilie Andersen
- Number of Participants
- 18
- Total Debris Collected
- 150 kgs (estimated)
36.071497, 14.258017
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Marsalforn bay
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Bubbles Dive Centre
- City
- Marsalforn
- Country
- Malta
- Date
- 21 July, 2013
- Survey Duration
- 60 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 36.071497
Longitude: 14.258017
- Weather Conditions
- Survey Depth Range
- 1–10 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 10000 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-grocery/retail (plastic) | 5 |
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 7 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 3 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 5 |
| Bottles: Bleach/cleaner Bottles | 1 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 2 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 6 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 6 |
| Sheeting: Tarpaulin, Plastic Sheets, Palette Wrap | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 35 |
| Cigarette Filters | 5 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cups & Plates-tableware/dishes (glass & Ceramic) | 1 |
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 2 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 7 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 4 |
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 1 |
| Forks, Knives, Spoons (cutlery) | 3 |
| Pipes & Rebar | 4 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 6 |
| Metal Fragments | 18 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Tires/tyres | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 11 |
| Towels/rags | 1 |
| Cloth Fragments | 3 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Blanket | 1 |
| Inflatable rubber lilo | 1 |
| Rope | 50 kg |
| Animal bone | 3 |
Additional Information
Boat parties in the bay. We found a big old blanket and a lot of rope.
We found the bill from a sword fish which had been cut off. We also found one last year. We never see sword fish around Gozo and Malta.
Rope
Plastic fragments
