Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Oliver's Canyon
6 March, 2012
- Team Leader
- Natasha Trenchard-Turner
- Number of Participants
- 5
- Total Debris Collected
- 10 kgs (estimated)
29.417111, 34.958176
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Oliver's Canyon
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Ahlan Aqaba Scuba Diving Centre
- City
- A
- Country
- Jordan
- Date
- 6 March, 2012
- Survey Duration
- 41 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 29.417111
Longitude: 34.958176
- Weather Conditions
-
Strong wind from Egypt onto the coast with medium size waves onto the shore on the previous 3 days.
- Survey Depth Range
- 2–18 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 25 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- coral
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 19 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 11 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 18 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 88 |
| Diapers/nappies | 2 |
| Fishing: Line | 51 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 25 |
| Sheeting: Tarpaulin, Plastic Sheets, Palette Wrap | 2 |
| Tobacco Packaging & Wrappers | 2 |
| Plastic Fragments | 25 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 2 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 20 |
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 2 |
| Cars & Car Parts | 1 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 1 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 6 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Towels/rags | 1 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cardboard: Packaging & Cartons | 2 |
| Paper, Cardboard Fragments | 8 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 3 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Plastic hairtie | 1 |
| Metal fishing hooks | 3 |
