Lookout Point
14 September, 2013
- Team Leader
- Rachel Domingo and Curly Boyer
- Number of Participants
- 20
- Total Debris Collected
- 125 lbs (estimated)
20.772887, -156.539555
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Lookout Point
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Maui Dreams Dive Co.
- City
- Wailuku
- Country
- United States
- Date
- 14 September, 2013
- Survey Duration
- 120 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 20.772887
Longitude: -156.539555
- Weather Conditions
-
Sunny weather, calm waters
- Survey Depth Range
- 10–50 feet
- Area Surveyed
- 982.124 ft2
- Dominant Substrate
- coral
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 2 |
| Fishing: Line | 100 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 44 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 119 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| fishing pole | 1 |
| hundreds of feet of fishing line | 40 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Other Fish | |
| Species or Common Name | Moray Eel |
| Number Entangled | 2 |
| Status | dead |
| Type of Debris | Conger Eel |
| Comments | One eel was dead and we were able to free the other one. |
Additional Information
This is a very popular fishing area, fished by locals from the rugged cliff-like coast line. Some of the sinkers looked a day old, and other stuff had been down long enough to become part of the reef.
Dead eel wrapped in line and/or fishing pole
lots and lots and lots of fishing line - untold yards of this stuff
lead sinkers with prongs, designed to stay in the water
Comments and Feedback
The tool to mark the area cleaned is difficult for us to use. Maybe next time, I'll ask the captain for a GPS reading on where exactly we are.
This was actually two dives in one morning. We keep all of the collected debris together though, so we don't have a way to report it separately. The clean-up was a single event and location though. We also collect hundreds of feet of fishing line. Not sure what the best way to report that is. Sometimes, it spiderwebs the reef!
