Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Punggol Marina Country Club - MV Nautica Berth Area
3 December, 2014
- Team Leader
- Monica Choo
- Number of Participants
- 2
- Total Debris Collected
- 2 kgs (measured)
1.416887, 103.898774
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Punggol Marina Country Club - MV Nautica Berth Area
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Asia Dive Academy
- City
- Singapore
- Country
- Singapore
- Date
- 3 December, 2014
- Survey Duration
- 20 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 1.416887
Longitude: 103.898774
- Weather Conditions
-
Regular tropical monsoon weather. It is sunny with showers/ thunderstorms.
- Survey Depth Range
- 5–5.5 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 4 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- silt
- Ecosystem
- Sub-tidal Soft Bottom - silty and sandy shallow bottom
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Foam Insulation & Packaging | 5 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 4 |
| Straws, Stirrers | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 6 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 2 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rubber Fragments | 1 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Lumber (processed Or Cut/milled Wood) | 2 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 1 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Paper, Cardboard Fragments | 2 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Harness - Cloth + Metal + Plastic | 1 |
| Sandpaper | 2 |
| Bicycle Lock - Plastic + Metal + Rubber | 1 |
Additional Information
General life at the Marina. A lot of food wrappers and boat debris.
Bicycle Lock - it must have fallen in from the pier.
Food Wrappers - they were a large percentage of plastics and foam which can be eaten by marine creatures.
Harness - possibly entanglement
Boat Fibreglass - I don't think anything can be done about this, but plastic is bad as it gets into the ecosystem.
Comments and Feedback
It is very interesting and fun survey, thank you.
A lot of the things in the Marina can probably be avoided by having divers go down and pick up things that have been accidentally dropped in.
