Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Ponquogue Bridge
10 July, 2023
- Team Leader
- Yurika Tomita
- Number of Participants
- 2
- Total Debris Collected
- 19.153 lbs (measured)
40.841480635094, -72.499251299165
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Ponquogue Bridge
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Hampton Dive Center
- City
- Riverhead
- Country
- United States
- Date
- 10 July, 2023
- Survey Duration
- 60 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 40.841480635094
Longitude: -72.499251299165
- Weather Conditions
- Survey Depth Range
- 1–20 feet
- Area Surveyed
- 56772.6 ft2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- eelgrass, mussels
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 1 |
| Fishing: Line | 15 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 1 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 2 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 7 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rubber Bands | 1 |
| Rubber Fragments | 7 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Wood Fragments | 13 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 10 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Crustaceans | |
| Species or Common Name | Spider Crab |
| Number Entangled | 3 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | fishing line |
| Comments | two spider crab was entangled in the same line and one by itself. In two different locations |
Additional Information
piece of wood attached to monofilament line. Might be not intentional but looked like it was purposely attached
