Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Directors Bay, Curacao
20 September, 2014
- Team Leader
- The fishing line challenge continues: cleaning up Directors Bay Curacao, Sept-14
- Number of Participants
- 5
- Total Debris Collected
- 12 lbs (estimated)
12.091, -68.904197
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Directors Bay, Curacao
- Organization/Dive Centre
- The Dive Bus, Curacao
- City
- Willemstad
- Country
- Netherlands Antilles
- Date
- 20 September, 2014
- Survey Duration
- 60 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 12.091
Longitude: -68.904197
- Weather Conditions
-
Warm, calm, low waves, low / no wind
- Survey Depth Range
- 5–80 feet
- Area Surveyed
- 144229 ft2
- Dominant Substrate
- coral
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 3 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 1 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 2 |
| Fishing: Line | 600 |
| Plastic Fragments | 6 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 1 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 10 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 1 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 67 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Paper-books, Newspaper & Magazines, Etc. | 1 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 1 |
| Tampons | 1 |
Additional Information
Popular local fishing spot for years. We keep on top of the fresh lines, but do clean ups to get the old line that's choking the reef, splitting sponges and corals etc etc
old fishing line
Comments and Feedback
Short but sweet video here: http://youtu.be/Yb83kHdMyUA
