Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Coral Bay/Half Tanker
24 September, 2011
- Team Leader
- Natalie Skipworth
- Number of Participants
- 11
- Total Debris Collected
- 150 kgs (estimated)
27.994401, 35.859375
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Coral Bay/Half Tanker
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Coral Diving and Watersports Centre
- City
- Manama
- Country
- Bahrain
- Date
- 24 September, 2011
- Survey Duration
- 180 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 27.994401
Longitude: 35.859375
- Weather Conditions
-
Sunny, low wind, no cloud, some dust
- Survey Depth Range
- 1–6 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 1000 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- silt
- Ecosystem
- rocky reef
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 13 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 22 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 9 |
| Buoys & Floats (plastic & Foamed) | 3 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 36 |
| Carpet (synthetic) | 1 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 5 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 20 |
| Fishing: Line | 3 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 7 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 12 |
| Sheeting: Tarpaulin, Plastic Sheets, Palette Wrap | 4 |
| Straws, Stirrers | 19 |
| Tobacco Packaging & Wrappers | 4 |
| Plastic Fragments | 30 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 9 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 5 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 28 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 2 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags (paper) | 1 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bricks, Cinderblocks & Chunks Of Cement | 2 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Crustaceans | |
| Number Entangled | 5 |
| Comments | Small crabs |
Additional Information
Blackwater Pipe
