Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Castle Beach, Falmouth, Cornwall, UK
6 October, 2012
- Team Leader
- Mark Milburn
- Number of Participants
- 6
- Total Debris Collected
- 16 kgs (measured)
50.147055, -5.056114
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Castle Beach, Falmouth, Cornwall, UK
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Atlantic Scuba
- City
- Falmouth
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Date
- 6 October, 2012
- Survey Duration
- 45 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 50.147055
Longitude: -5.056114
- Weather Conditions
-
Weather had been windy but offshore, for the actual day it switched to onshore. Some rain, light rain on the day.
- Survey Depth Range
- 3–6 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 200 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- rock
- Ecosystem
- kelp
- Wave Conditions
- Slight for waves 0.5 -1.25 meter high
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 6 |
| Balls | 1 |
| Fishing: Line | 1 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 1 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 2 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 2 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 2 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| fibreglass piece of boat | 1 |
| perspex sheet | 1 |
Additional Information
Piece of a fibreglass boat hull!
