Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Carrs Bay, Montserrat
27 February, 2016
- Team Leader
- Charley Bartlett
- Number of Participants
- 5
- Total Debris Collected
- 68 lbs (measured)
16.796792, -62.209382
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Carrs Bay, Montserrat
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Montserrat Island Dive Centre
- City
- Carr's Bay
- Country
- Montserrat
- Date
- 27 February, 2016
- Survey Duration
- 61 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 16.796792
Longitude: -62.209382
- Weather Conditions
-
Big swells earlier in the week, calming to a very mild lapping wave
- Survey Depth Range
- 3–10.9 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 6966.67 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 44 |
| Bait Containers, Packaging | 13 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 36 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 5 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 1 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 22 |
| Diapers/nappies | 1 |
| Fishing: Line | 12 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 4 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 4 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 9 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 35 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 2 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 5 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 183 |
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 11 |
| Metal Fragments | 11 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Gloves (rubber) | 1 |
| Inner-tubes & Rubber Sheets | 6 |
| Rubber Bands | 3 |
| Rubber Fragments | 6 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags (burlap) | 4 |
| Towels/rags | 2 |
| Cloth Fragments | 16 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 11 |
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 1 |
| Toys | 2 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Lp record | 1 |
| Full bottle of Hot Sauce! | 1 |
| Disposable Razors | 3 |
| metal drinks pouch | 5 |
| Weed whacker plastic wire | 8 |
| Broom head | 1 |
Additional Information
A record, unmarked, but kept to find out what music it may play!
Drinks Cans - so many single use items, taking a long time to break down, but all grouping together
Plastic bags - so many wrapping around coral; strangling and inhibiting growth
Fabric - collecting more waste as it 'snowballs' encompassing and destroying reef and growing with every roll of a wave.
Comments and Feedback
We chose to dive the deeper site at this location as the swells earlier in the week had pulled the garbage out to the reef at 10m deep instead of gathering at the inner reef at 3-4m. And we found a lot of trash!
