Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Ao Kluai Koh Kood
29 September, 2013
- Team Leader
- Manuel van den Brink
- Number of Participants
- 6
- Total Debris Collected
- 550 kgs (estimated)
11.668712, 102.618484
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Ao Kluai Koh Kood
- Organization/Dive Centre
- BB Divers
- City
- Klong Chao
- Country
- Thailand
- Date
- 29 September, 2013
- Survey Duration
- 120 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 11.668712
Longitude: 102.618484
- Weather Conditions
-
Strom
- Survey Depth Range
- 3–10 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 100 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 51 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 159 |
| Cigarette Lighters | 11 |
| Fishing: Line | 213 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 6 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 356 |
| Foam Insulation & Packaging | 610 |
| Toothbrushes | 67 |
| Cigarette Filters | 41 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 212 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 419 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Aerosol/spray Cans | 7 |
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 56 |
| Gas Bottles/cylinder, Drums-more Than 4 Liters | 2 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 45 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Wood Fragments | 43 |
| Fishing: Traps & Pots | 2 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags (burlap) | 2 |
| Cloth Fragments | 76 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 34 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| cutters | 9 |
Comments and Feedback
We organized the clean up together with the local school on Koh Kood. We learned the children what Marine Debris does with the environment and they came on the boat to see what the divers found and helped to sort the debris out.
