Sepoi Island
20 September, 2014
- Team Leader
- Nic Emery
- Number of Participants
- 21
- Total Debris Collected
- 13 kgs (measured)
2.898879, 104.05146
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Sepoi Island
- Organization/Dive Centre
- B&J Diving Centre
- City
- Tioman Island
- Country
- Malaysia
- Date
- 20 September, 2014
- Survey Duration
- 50 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 2.898879
Longitude: 104.05146
- Weather Conditions
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Storms every two or three days, with moderate waves and wind - nothing out of the ordinary.
- Survey Depth Range
- 14–18 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 300 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- coral
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 2 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 254 |
Additional Information
We removed a huge fishing net from this dive site. Interesting, seeing as the site is within a designated Marine Park where fishing is illegal! But, these are the problems we face around Tioman! There have been a number of groups from different dive centres and agencies like Cintai Tioman, Reef Check Malaysia and Marine Parks working on removing this net for over a month. The net that we collected was just a fraction of the total - maybe only 1/5. There were no dead animals seen on the day of the survey, but we have heard that on other occasions there have been entangled fish and crustaceans - some of them dead, other injured and freed but probably died later.
Fishing Nets - drift onto this location from the surrounding ocean, plus used directly on the site
Fishing Line - popular fishing spot for locals and tourists
Plastic styrofoam food containers - popular fishing, snokelling and diving spot and litter is thrown in the water
