Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Aow Leuk Bay
22 November, 2015
- Team Leader
- James Ellis
- Number of Participants
- 11
- Total Debris Collected
- 55 kgs (estimated)
10.071613, 99.840199
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Aow Leuk Bay
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Scuba Shack
- City
- Koh Tao
- Country
- Thailand
- Date
- 22 November, 2015
- Survey Duration
- 63 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 10.071613
Longitude: 99.840199
- Weather Conditions
-
Periods of heavy rain most days, a little wind and over cast at times
- Survey Depth Range
- 3–12 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 415 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Slight for waves 0.5 -1.25 meter high
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 780 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 71 |
| Bottles: Oil/lube | 1 |
| Buoys & Floats (plastic & Foamed) | 2 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 3 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 3 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 66 |
| Diapers/nappies | 8 |
| Fishing: Line | 7 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 13 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 33 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 2 |
| Sheeting: Tarpaulin, Plastic Sheets, Palette Wrap | 5 |
| Straws, Stirrers | 11 |
| Tobacco Packaging & Wrappers | 2 |
| Plastic Fragments | 42 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 12 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 32 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 2 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 3 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Gloves (rubber) | 6 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Furnishings (wood) | 1 |
| Wood Fragments | 2 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags (cloth) | 15 |
| Gloves (cloth) | 10 |
| Rope And String (cloth) | 6 |
| Towels/rags | 1 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 1 |
| Toys | 2 |
Additional Information
This Dive seemed to be all plastic bags of various sizes with only 1 sizable piece of fishing net. We literally found piles of them in pits in the sand.
rubber wellington boot! Would be more at home on a farm not a tropical island
plastig bags, from the numerous shops that sell food in bags and the 7-11 giving out far too many.
plastic cups from the beach bars. Not enough trash cans on the beaches and around the island
plastic bottles
