Dive Against Debris Data Submission
SANTO ANTÃO WRECK
14 February, 2014
- Team Leader
- LEO SALDUNBIDES - PADI 184808
- Number of Participants
- 5
- Total Debris Collected
- 7 kgs (estimated)
16.591948, -22.893716
Survey Information
- Location Name
- SANTO ANTÃO WRECK
- Organization/Dive Centre
- CABO VERDE DIVING - S#35232
- City
- SANTA MARIA
- Country
- Cape Verde
- Date
- 14 February, 2014
- Survey Duration
- 47 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 16.591948
Longitude: -22.893716
- Weather Conditions
-
WINDY
- Survey Depth Range
- 9–12 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 1500 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- seagrass
- Wave Conditions
- Slight for waves 0.5 -1.25 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 2 |
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 2 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 2 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 3 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 2 |
| Fishing: Line | 2 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 1 |
| Straws, Stirrers | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 1 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 1 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 1 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 1 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rubber Fragments | 1 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Fishing: Traps & Pots | 1 |
Additional Information
PLASTIC BAGS
PLASTIC BOTTLES
FISHING LINES + NETS
Comments and Feedback
Today's AWARE Dive Against Debris action outcome. Dives: 3 grutas Reef (20m/38') and Santo Antão Wreck (12m/47') with 3 PADI AOWD students. Soon we will report data on AWARE 's web site. Thank you students Rinout and Fleur (from Holland) and Rodolfo (from Portugal) and PADI MSDT Instructor Ilson Evangelista for participating and helping to make our Ocean cleaner!!! — with Cabo Verde Diving at Melia Tortuga Beach Resort.
