Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Todd's Playground
24 January, 2016
- Team Leader
- Liang Chen
- Number of Participants
- 8
- Total Debris Collected
- 28 lbs (measured)
20.518835, -86.950044
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Todd's Playground
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Aldora Divers
- City
- San Miguel, Cozumel
- Country
- Mexico
- Date
- 24 January, 2016
- Survey Duration
- 78 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 20.518835
Longitude: -86.950044
- Weather Conditions
- Survey Depth Range
- 50–75 feet
- Area Surveyed
- 3060 ft2
- Dominant Substrate
- rock
- Ecosystem
- rocky reef
- Wave Conditions
- Slight for waves 0.5 -1.25 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 1 |
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 2 |
| Bottles: Bleach/cleaner Bottles | 1 |
| Buoys & Floats (plastic & Foamed) | 2 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 2 |
| Fishing: Line | 62 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 24 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 2 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 1 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 5 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 3 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 11 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cars & Car Parts | 18 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 7 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 23 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rubber Fragments | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cloth Fragments | 2 |
Additional Information
Many tires encountered but with life growing and so was left behind. The predominant garbage collected was fishing line, totaling a whopping 26 pounds of line.
A wheelchair but it was completely grown over with coral and life, we left it behind.
Fishing line
Spark plugs used as sinker weights
plastic in general
Comments and Feedback
The current was quite strong that day, so although we covered quite a bit of territory, it would definitely benefit from another clean up dive in the near future.
