Mutirão Dive Trip Against Debris - 2016
5 March, 2016
- Team Leader
- Luiz Carlos do Nascimento
- Number of Participants
- 28
- Total Debris Collected
- 300 kgs (estimated)
-22.83752, -43.174822
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Mutirão Dive Trip Against Debris - 2016
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Luiz Carlos do Nascimento
- City
- Rio de Janeiro
- Country
- Brazil
- Date
- 5 March, 2016
- Survey Duration
- 460 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: -22.83752
Longitude: -43.174822
- Weather Conditions
-
Sensação:26°
Umidade:81%
Pressão:1014 hPa
Vento:3 km/h
- Survey Depth Range
- 4–8 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 6608 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- gravel
- Ecosystem
- rocky reef
- 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) | 672 |
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 4 |
| Bait Containers, Packaging | 2 |
| Balls | 2 |
| Baskets, Crates | 8 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 67 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 263 |
| Bottles: Oil/lube | 5 |
| Buoys & Floats (plastic & Foamed) | 13 |
| Cigarette Lighters | 8 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 37 |
| Diapers/nappies | 1 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 1 |
| Gloves (latex) | 2 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 8 |
| Sheeting: Tarpaulin, Plastic Sheets, Palette Wrap | 4 |
| Tobacco Packaging & Wrappers | 76 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 500 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 18 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 1 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 5 |
| Cars & Car Parts | 2 |
| Pipes & Rebar | 18 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 3 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Tires/tyres | 3 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Pallets | 2 |
| Wood Fragments | 12 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Computer Equipment & Other Electronic Devices | 1 |
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 12 |
| Toys | 5 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Birds | |
| Species or Common Name | egret |
| Number Entangled | 1 |
| Status | dead |
| Type of Debris | Pet cover |
| Comments | This happened on the ground, while cleaning the beaches we saw in the bushes near the track |
Additional Information
During the dive, near to a dredger (type of vessel) we found the abandoned gallons and metal materials, discarded at sea by the company owning the vessel.
pet bottles, plastics of all forms.
plastic
pet bottles
tires
Comments and Feedback
This action took place through volunteers who are interested in diving activity and want to act in favor of the environment. Thinking of promoting the PADI courses, I created a project in Colonia Z-10 Fishermen, the first in Brazil since 1920, is located in a mangrove biome within the Guanabara Bay. The Dry Island is to be occupied by the offshore industry, further decreasing the area of Artisanal Fisheries, where several families depend for their livelihood. With volunteering, we can develop skills so that the residents of this area can use diving as a tool, removing industrial waste from the seabed and managing them by applying a concept of sustainability and recycling, ensuring the permanence of the Island as artisanal fishing area. In this action the interested in conducting the PADI OPEN WATER, will receive the first participation. With three stakes, the volunteer receives a free diving course and three actions, the introduction of scuba diving. In the end, with five dives for the project, enabling one to dive to 18mts and rent diving equipment anywhere in the world. In addition to diving, this action aims to promote environmental education and preservation of Caiçara Culture.
