Gold Coast Seaway, Queensland, Australia
20 February, 2014
- Team Leader
- John Gransbury
- Number of Participants
- 9
- Total Debris Collected
- 23.6 kgs (measured)
-27.936932, 153.425512
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Gold Coast Seaway, Queensland, Australia
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Professional Dive Services
- City
- Gold Coast
- Country
- Australia
- Date
- 20 February, 2014
- Survey Duration
- 120 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: -27.936932
Longitude: 153.425512
- Weather Conditions
-
North Easterly winds the night before reduced the visibility to 3 to 5 metres but still good enough for a clean up!
- Survey Depth Range
- 0.5–12 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 200 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- rocky reef
- Wave Conditions
- Slight for waves 0.5 -1.25 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 3 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 5 |
| Fishing: Line | 12 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 5 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cars & Car Parts | 1 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 621 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cloth Fragments | 3 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Sunglasses | 7 |
| spark plug | 1 |
| fishing line | 12kgs of |
Additional Information
Construction waste from commercial divers replacing the brackets on the sand pipe. Fishing line in large quantities from daily fishing activity.
A hair clip and 7 pairs of sunglasses
hooks
Fishing line
Comments and Feedback
Some free give aways from Project Aware would be nice to give to the participants. I gave away 3 x $50 vouchers as prizes, 18 tank fills, $50 worth of mesh bags as well as my time and fuel. All up we pulled out 23.6kg of rubbish, I donated the equivalent of $500 in terms of materials and my time, one diver donated $50 directly to Project AWARE as a result of the clean up. It would be nice to think that we could get some mesh bags to aid in the clean up or some drink bottles or hats or some token item to give to the participants without having to give more money then we already have to Project AWARE. With all of the money that is donated to Project AWARE on an annual basis one would think it was these grass roots clean ups that would get some support from PADI.
There is plenty more down there and I will be back running more events but next time I am going to have to charge for it as I can't afford to keep doing it on my own.
