Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Ojo de Agua
28 July, 2014
- Team Leader
- Rimas Okmanas
- Number of Participants
- 11
- Total Debris Collected
- 16 lbs (measured)
20.85104, -86.872741
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Ojo de Agua
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Wet Set Diving Adventures
- City
- Puerto Morelos
- Country
- Mexico
- Date
- 28 July, 2014
- Survey Duration
- 60 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 20.85104
Longitude: -86.872741
- Weather Conditions
-
Good
- Survey Depth Range
- 1–4 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 3000 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- 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) | 2 |
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 3 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 3 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 1 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 10 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 15 |
| Mesh Bags: Fruit/vegetable/shellfish | 1 |
| Straws, Stirrers | 7 |
| Tobacco Packaging & Wrappers | 4 |
| Plastic Fragments | 11 |
| Cigarette Filters | 2 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 5 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Jars-food (glass) | 3 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 2 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 1 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 2 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rubber Bands | 2 |
| Rubber Fragments | 2 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags (burlap) | 3 |
| Rope And String (cloth) | 1 |
| Towels/rags | 3 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bricks, Cinderblocks & Chunks Of Cement | 2 |
| Toys | 2 |
Additional Information
The main problem is weekend tourists coming to the beach and not disposing of their trash properly. If they do try to dispose of it properly, there usually is an inadequate number of trash bins or those bins become full very quickly.
A toy of a monkey riding a horse.
food containers and wrappers
plastic bags
beverage containers
