Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Playa Caletitas
23 April, 2024
- Team Leader
- Glenda Meade
- Number of Participants
- 14
- Total Debris Collected
- 29.2 lbs (measured)
20.494733768426, -86.964487011048
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Playa Caletitas
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Maple Leaf Scuba
- City
- Cozumel
- Country
- Mexico
- Date
- 23 April, 2024
- Survey Duration
- 72 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 20.494733768426
Longitude: -86.964487011048
- Weather Conditions
-
Good conditions with winds of 7-10 knots
- Survey Depth Range
- 6–9 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 6064 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- seagrass
- Ecosystem
- seagrass
- 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) | 4 |
| Balloons | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 5 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 3 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 1 |
| Fishing: Line | 25 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 4 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 2 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 7 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 1 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 5 |
| Sheeting: Tarpaulin, Plastic Sheets, Palette Wrap | 2 |
| Plastic Fragments | 4 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 2 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 8 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 8 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 6 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 3 |
| Cars & Car Parts | 17 |
| Forks, Knives, Spoons (cutlery) | 1 |
| Pull Tabs-beverages | 2 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 1 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 7 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 42 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Furnishings (wood) | 3 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 3 |
| Towels/rags | 1 |
| Cloth Fragments | 2 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Paper, Cardboard Fragments | 3 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 1 |
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 1 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| fiberglass | 24 |
| nail polish | 1 |
| zip ties | 2 |
| plastic pill packs | 2 |
Additional Information
Fishermen are using boat spark plugs as lures or fishing weights. There was a lot of fishing line with hooks. Pieces of tarps were used for fishing net.
boat spark plugs
fishing line - can endanger divers and marine life
fishing hooks- can endanger divers and marine life
boat spark plugs- oil from the plugs plus its usage as weights for fishing line
