Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Laem Thien
27 May, 2015
- Team Leader
- Verity Coleing
- Number of Participants
- 15
- Total Debris Collected
- 5 kgs (estimated)
10.132171, 99.85004
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Laem Thien
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Ban's Diving Resort
- City
- Koh Tao
- Country
- Thailand
- Date
- 27 May, 2015
- Survey Duration
- 40 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 10.132171
Longitude: 99.85004
- Weather Conditions
-
Strong winds and some heavy rain
- Survey Depth Range
- 5–16 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 20 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- rock
- Ecosystem
- rocky reef
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 1 |
| Bait Containers, Packaging | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 2 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 8 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 5 |
| Fishing: Line | 6 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 2 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 9 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 2 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 2 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 2 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Wood Fragments | 7 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 7 |
| Cloth Fragments | 3 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 1 |
Additional Information
There is a lot of fishing pressure around koh tao which explains the amount of fishing equipment that we found, particularly long lengths of fishing line - a couple of the lines were around 50m long!
snorkel
Fishing line - fishing pressure
Plastic bottles - improper disposal
