Balmoral Baths
19 September, 2015
- Team Leader
- Liz Brodie
- Number of Participants
- 13
- Total Debris Collected
- 10 kgs (estimated)
-33.827267, 151.253403
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Balmoral Baths
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Dive 2000
- City
- Mosman
- Country
- Australia
- Date
- 19 September, 2015
- Survey Duration
- 60 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: -33.827267
Longitude: 151.253403
- Weather Conditions
-
some showers
- Survey Depth Range
- 1–10 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 325.901 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- silt
- Ecosystem
- kelp
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 5 |
| Balls | 5 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 2 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 15 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 2 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 5 |
| Cups & Plates-tableware/dishes (metal) | 1 |
| Forks, Knives, Spoons (cutlery) | 5 |
| Pipes & Rebar | 1 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 2 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 50 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bricks, Cinderblocks & Chunks Of Cement | 3 |
| Clothing | 6 |
| Computer Equipment & Other Electronic Devices | 1 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| ceramics | 3 |
| furniture | 1 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Crustaceans | |
| Species or Common Name | crabs |
| Number Entangled | 3 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | in containers |
| Other Animals | |
| Species or Common Name | octopus |
| Number Entangled | 1 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | bottle |
Additional Information
There are two people at Mosman Council who organise clean ups and they didn't talk - EcoDivers, a Manly based dive group had done an u/w cleanup 4 days before our clean up. Please go to their facebook page for September and you can see a picture of what they collected.
Smart phone that looked like it hadn't been in the water for long and it had either moved quickly by the tide or someone had a temper tantrum and thrown off the boardwalk around the pool (or dropped it of course). The position didn't really look like it had just been dropped and it had no growth on it whatsoever. One of the divers took home to see if they could get it working again. I think it was an iphone.
chairs that fisherman knock off the jetty or throw into the water because they are broken
fishing lines caught in kelp etc as part of the jetty is used for fishing
beer/wine/cooler bottles
