Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Avarua Harbour, Rarotonga
12 September, 2014
- Team Leader
- Steve Lyon
- Number of Participants
- 8
- Total Debris Collected
- 192 kgs (measured)
-21.204458, -159.775114
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Avarua Harbour, Rarotonga
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Pacific Divers and Pacific Islands Conservation Intitiative
- City
- Avarua
- Country
- Cook Islands
- Date
- 12 September, 2014
- Survey Duration
- 60 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: -21.204458
Longitude: -159.775114
- Weather Conditions
-
Fair
- Survey Depth Range
- 1–25 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 28625.5 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- Sub Tidal Soft Bottom
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 23 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 11 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 17 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 8 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 1 |
| Six-pack Rings, Ring Carriers | 3 |
| Plastic Fragments | 31 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 1 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Jars-food (glass) | 2 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 17 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 46 |
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 11 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 6 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 2 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Tires/tyres | 18 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cloth Fragments | 5 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Toys | 1 |
Additional Information
Oven control panel
Tyres, they are used by Oe Vaka paddlers to rest their canoes on, but they don't take them off the beach. When a strom comes they wash down into the harbour and out onto the reef. We find them as deep as 50m.
Discarded food related waste, such as cans, bottles and food containers. This is a social spot and people sometimes treat the harbour as a rubbish bin, desipite the fact many people swim here.
Comments and Feedback
Rarotonga has beautiful diving, in warm clear tropical waters. Check our location, we are at the centre of the water hemisphere.
