Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Perch Lake
6 October, 2012
- Team Leader
- Jay Elson
- Number of Participants
- 10
- Total Debris Collected
- 200 lbs (estimated)
34.92585, -104.663814
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Perch Lake
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Tortuga Diver Training
- City
- Santa Rosa
- Country
- United States
- Date
- 6 October, 2012
- Survey Duration
- 74 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 34.92585
Longitude: -104.663814
- Weather Conditions
-
Calm, dry
- Survey Depth Range
- 5–36 feet
- Area Surveyed
- 50000 ft2
- Dominant Substrate
- silt
- Ecosystem
- freshwater lake
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bait Containers, Packaging | 3 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 24 |
| Buckets, Drums & Jerrycans-2 Liters Or More | 1 |
| Buoys & Floats (plastic & Foamed) | 1 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 10 |
| Carpet (synthetic) | 1 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 5 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 2 |
| Fishing: Line | 4 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 9 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 17 |
| Gloves (latex) | 3 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 4 |
| Six-pack Rings, Ring Carriers | 7 |
| Tobacco Packaging & Wrappers | 6 |
| Plastic Fragments | 20 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 3 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Jars-food (glass) | 2 |
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 3 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 35 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 29 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 4 |
| Cars & Car Parts | 2 |
| Pipes & Rebar | 1 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 6 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Gloves (cloth) | 1 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Paper, Cardboard Fragments | 15 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 1 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| drive shaft | 1 |
| matress springs | 1 |
Additional Information
No
drive shaft
old dive platform (sunken) - entanglement hazard for divers in low visability
glass bottles - broken glass hazard resulting in cuts to divers
fishing lures - popular fishing site (lost lures can possibly injure divers)
