Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Ghar Lapsi
23 March, 2023
- Team Leader
- Susannah Williams
- Number of Participants
- 2
- Total Debris Collected
- 2 kgs (estimated)
35.826491239912, 14.423102113368
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Ghar Lapsi
- Organization/Dive Centre
- NDS Malta
- Country
- Malta
- Date
- 23 March, 2023
- Survey Duration
- 45 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 35.826491239912
Longitude: 14.423102113368
- Weather Conditions
-
Calm
- Survey Depth Range
- 5–13 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 986 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- seagrass
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 13 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 1 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 9 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Metal Fragments | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cloth Fragments | 4 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothes label | 2 |
Additional Information
Strong winds over the wind
Plastic bottles
Food wrappers
Comments and Feedback
Huge thank you to Mario for helping. We didn't expect much debris so I only had a small mesh bag. Mario filled it with plastic bottles pretty quickly and then filled his BCD pockets with more. Great to see another dive keen to help the ocean
