Dive Against Debris Data Submission
False Bay Yacht Club
19 September, 2015
- Team Leader
- Raquel Flynn
- Number of Participants
- 38
- Total Debris Collected
- 30 kgs (estimated)
-33.954743, 18.465909
Survey Information
- Location Name
- False Bay Yacht Club
- Organization/Dive Centre
- University of Cape Town Underwater Club
- City
- Cape Town
- Country
- South Africa
- Date
- 19 September, 2015
- Survey Duration
- 600 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: -33.954743
Longitude: 18.465909
- Weather Conditions
- Survey Depth Range
- 2–6 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 400 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- harbour
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 25 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 20 |
| Buoys & Floats (plastic & Foamed) | 3 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 35 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 2 |
| Foam Insulation & Packaging | 2 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 40 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 15 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 2 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 15 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 13 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 30 |
| SCUBA Weights | 2 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 10 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Tires/tyres | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 2 |
| Towels/rags | 3 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| pliars | 1 |
| toothbrush | 1 |
| CD | 1 |
