Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Lighthouse Bay
26 November, 2015
- Team Leader
- Verity Coleing
- Number of Participants
- 10
- Total Debris Collected
- 34 kgs (estimated)
10.120567, 99.843737
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Lighthouse Bay
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Ban's Ecological Action for Coastal Health, Ban's Diving Resort
- City
- Koh tao
- Country
- Thailand
- Date
- 26 November, 2015
- Survey Duration
- 46 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 10.120567
Longitude: 99.843737
- Weather Conditions
-
Windy with frequent showers
- Survey Depth Range
- 5–10 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 30 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) | 29 |
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 13 |
| Balloons | 4 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 9 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 78 |
| Bottles: Bleach/cleaner Bottles | 2 |
| Buckets, Drums & Jerrycans-2 Liters Or More | 1 |
| Buoys & Floats (plastic & Foamed) | 6 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 27 |
| Cigarette Lighters | 7 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 3 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 3 |
| Fishing: Line | 2 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 8 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 14 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 17 |
| Sheeting: Tarpaulin, Plastic Sheets, Palette Wrap | 9 |
| Straws, Stirrers | 15 |
| Tobacco Packaging & Wrappers | 3 |
| Toothbrushes | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 7 |
| Cigarette Filters | 9 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 7 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 9 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Batteries: AA, AAA, C & D, 6V, 9V, Etc. | 2 |
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 4 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 6 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 4 |
| Cloth Fragments | 3 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Other Fish | |
| Species or Common Name | unknown |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | tangled in raft of floating fishing net |
| Comments | A fish was discovered by a buddy team heading back to the boat entangled in a floating mass of netting, the divers freed the fish which swam away seemingly unharmed and towed the netting back to the boat. Unfortunately the divers were unable to identify the fish. |
Additional Information
There were lots of plastic bags and water bottles collected during the dive portion of the clean-up. There was also an island of netting floating on the surface, that had become hooked on the reef underneath and entangled a fish.
Fishing gear
plastic bags
plastic bottles
