Dive Against Debris Data Submission
White House Rock
17 March, 2024
- Team Leader
- Denzil Fernandes
- Number of Participants
- 9
- Total Debris Collected
- 60 kgs (estimated)
12.021667, 92.800833
Survey Information
- Location Name
- White House Rock
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Lacadives
- City
- Havelock
- Country
- India
- Date
- 17 March, 2024
- Survey Duration
- 60 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 12.021667
Longitude: 92.800833
- Weather Conditions
-
Good
- Survey Depth Range
- 3–15 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 151.64 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- rock
- Ecosystem
- rocky reef
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Buoys & Floats (plastic & Foamed) | 20 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 1 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 2 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bricks, Cinderblocks & Chunks Of Cement | 22 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Marine Mammals | |
| Species or Common Name | Turtle |
| Number Entangled | 1 |
| Status | dead |
| Type of Debris | Fishing net |
| Sea Turtle | |
| Species or Common Name | Green Sea Turtle |
| Number Entangled | 1 |
| Status | dead |
| Type of Debris | Fishing net |
| Other Fish | |
| Species or Common Name | Puffer Fish |
| Number Entangled | 7 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | Fishing net |
| Comments | 20 rabbit fish dead, 4 released, 2 lion fish released, 6 surgeon fish |
| Crustaceans | |
| Species or Common Name | Crabs |
| Number Entangled | 9 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | Fishing net |
| Comments | 6 crabs were injured |
| Other Animals | |
| Species or Common Name | Scorpion Fish |
| Number Entangled | 6 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | Fishing net |
Additional Information
Commercial fishing net
Comments and Feedback
We arrived on the dive sites and saw there was a huge fishing net on the dive sites tried to pick it up from the boat but we could not because it was wrapped around the pinnacles underwater we started our dive and try to release fish and got the whole net out of the water is very sad to see so many marine life dead and rotting and the ones which were alive were released.
