Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Utila Harbour
18 September, 2014
- Team Leader
- Lucie Brown
- Number of Participants
- 6
- Total Debris Collected
- 30 lbs (measured)
16.0965, -86.897146
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Utila Harbour
- Organization/Dive Centre
- WSORC
- City
- Utila
- Country
- Honduras
- Date
- 18 September, 2014
- Survey Duration
- 60 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 16.0965
Longitude: -86.897146
- Weather Conditions
-
Medium rainfall
- Survey Depth Range
- 1–2 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 21407.9 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- seagrass
- Ecosystem
- seagrass
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 7 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 20 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 3 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 1 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 7 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 7 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Plastic and Metal Hairclip | 1 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Crustaceans | |
| Species or Common Name | Crab |
| Number Entangled | 1 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | plastic bottle |
Additional Information
Independence Day festivities added to the amount of waste thrown in to the water.
Plastic sparkly hairclip.
Plastic bottles
aluminium cans
plastic fragments
