Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Oliver's Canyon
28 November, 2011
- Team Leader
- Natasha Trenchard-Turner
- Number of Participants
- 3
- Total Debris Collected
- 10 kgs (estimated)
29.482718, 34.982786
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Oliver's Canyon
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Ahlan Aqaba Scuba Diving Centre
- City
- Aqaba
- Country
- Jordan
- Date
- 28 November, 2011
- Survey Duration
- 50 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 29.482718
Longitude: 34.982786
- Weather Conditions
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No rain in past week.
Sunny and dry.
Wind in gusts up to 10 knotts blowing from land to sea.
- Survey Depth Range
- 15–25 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 20 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- coral
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Debris Items Collected
plastic materials collected | |
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Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 7 |
Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 22 |
Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 10 |
Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 279 |
Diapers/nappies | 1 |
Food Wrappers (plastic) | 10 |
Tobacco Packaging & Wrappers | 1 |
Plastic Fragments | 68 |
glass materials collected | |
---|---|
Beverage Bottles (glass) | 3 |
metal materials collected | |
---|---|
Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 30 |
cloth materials collected | |
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Bags (cloth) | 1 |
paper materials collected | |
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Paper, Cardboard Fragments | 9 |
mixed materials collected | |
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Clothing | 1 |
Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 1 |
Toys | 1 |
Comments and Feedback
The dive site is off a public beach that is also covered in rubbish, including plastic cups, bottle lids and cigarette butts and plastic rope in a very high concentration. A portion of the beach 20m squared was also cleaned.