Six Senses Laamu - House reef
18 September, 2013
- Team Leader
- Petra Hellmann
- Number of Participants
- 26
- Total Debris Collected
- 100 kgs (estimated)
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Six Senses Laamu - House reef
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Ocean Dimensions
- City
- Six Senses Laamu
- Country
- Maldives
- Date
- 18 September, 2013
- Survey Duration
- 90 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude:
Longitude:
- Weather Conditions
-
Mixed, with rain and wind.
- Survey Depth Range
- 0–15 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 400 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- coral
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 20 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 30 |
| Bottles: Oil/lube | 20 |
| Buckets, Drums & Jerrycans-2 Liters Or More | 5 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 10 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 10 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 25 |
| Diapers/nappies | 25 |
| Fishing: Line | 25 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 10 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 30 |
| Mesh Bags: Fruit/vegetable/shellfish | 10 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 20 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 2 |
| Sheeting: Tarpaulin, Plastic Sheets, Palette Wrap | 20 |
| Tobacco Packaging & Wrappers | 10 |
| Plastic Fragments | 30 |
| Strapping Bands (plastic) | 20 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 20 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cups & Plates-tableware/dishes (glass & Ceramic) | 5 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 10 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Aerosol/spray Cans | 2 |
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 30 |
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 10 |
| Cups & Plates-tableware/dishes (metal) | 3 |
| Forks, Knives, Spoons (cutlery) | 10 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 20 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Lumber (processed Or Cut/milled Wood) | 5 |
| Pallets | 1 |
| Wood Fragments | 5 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags (cloth) | 10 |
| Towels/rags | 15 |
| Cloth Fragments | 5 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cardboard: Packaging & Cartons | 2 |
| Paper-books, Newspaper & Magazines, Etc. | 1 |
| Paper, Cardboard Fragments | 5 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 1 |
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 1 |
Additional Information
We found many tin drink cans. There is a bar near the ocean and on a windy day the cans get blown into the sea. Same for all the napkins, table cloth, cutlery and the hat we found. The neighbour island is a local island. From that island a lot of baby nappies drift on to our reef :-( We dragged up a wooden structure that has broken off from our jetty. We found a snorkel and a fin that some snorkeler must have lost. We found many hessian material bags. The beach around our island is getting washed away by waves. We protect it with hessian material bags filled with sand and cement. Unfortunately sometimes these bags come loose and drift onto the reef infront of the beach.
a Cressi fin with finstrap
hessian material bags
tin drink cans
general plastic rubbish and nappies
Comments and Feedback
We do bi-monthly clean ups - mainly snorkeling - along our house reef. Some of the rubbish just comes floating in regularly from the local islands, the ocean and surely also from our island.
