Dive Against Debris Data Submission
The Aquarium
19 January, 2013
- Team Leader
- Heather Pardoe
- Number of Participants
- 6
- Total Debris Collected
- 7 kgs (estimated)
-30.751278, 116.71875
Survey Information
- Location Name
- The Aquarium
- Organization/Dive Centre
- BCDA
- City
- Geraldton
- Country
- Australia
- Date
- 19 January, 2013
- Survey Duration
- 55 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: -30.751278
Longitude: 116.71875
- Weather Conditions
-
Strong Winds
- Survey Depth Range
- 2–9 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 100 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- rocky reef
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 11 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 1 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 1 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 6 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 10 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 1 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 1 |
| Metal Fragments | 1 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Lumber (processed Or Cut/milled Wood) | 1 |
| Wood Fragments | 14 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags (burlap) | 2 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bones | 6 |
| Wooden homemade speargun | 1 |
| Plastic reels on speargun | 1 |
| Rubbers on speargun | 4 |
Additional Information
Homemade speargun, animal bones
