Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Song Saa
8 September, 2013
- Team Leader
- Jelena Vukosavljevic
- Number of Participants
- 2
- Total Debris Collected
- 7.5 kgs (measured)
10.755212, 103.261421
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Song Saa
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Song Saa
- City
- Sihanoukville
- Country
- Cambodia
- Date
- 8 September, 2013
- Survey Duration
- 30 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 10.755212
Longitude: 103.261421
- Weather Conditions
-
Very calm and sunny, no wind at all
- Survey Depth Range
- 1–4 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 134 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- silt
- Ecosystem
- sandy bottom
- 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) | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 1 |
| Cigar Tips | 1 |
| Fishing: Line | 2 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 3 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 2 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 1 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Inner-tubes & Rubber Sheets | 1 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Wood Fragments | 1 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Part of Anchor | 1 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Crustaceans | |
| Species or Common Name | Crabs |
| Number Entangled | 6 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | fishing net |
Additional Information
There is a village nearby surrounded by fishing boat, which explains a lot of fishing gear. But they also discharge all garbage straight into the see and than it`s washed off on the shores of Song Saa. Fisherman are all local!
Big and heavy part of an old boat anchor
fishing gear
plastic
