Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Koh Sak Island
7 May, 2016
- Team Leader
- Daphne Cheah Ui Jen
- Number of Participants
- 25
- Total Debris Collected
- 12 kgs (estimated)
12.945271, 100.792056
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Koh Sak Island
- Organization/Dive Centre
- AirAsia
- City
- Pattaya
- Country
- Thailand
- Date
- 7 May, 2016
- Survey Duration
- 40 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 12.945271
Longitude: 100.792056
- Weather Conditions
-
Sunny weather
- Survey Depth Range
- 5–12.1 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 200 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- bare sandy bottom
- Wave Conditions
- Slight for waves 0.5 -1.25 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 1 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 1 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 1 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 6 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 2 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 4 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 16 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 4 |
| Metal Fragments | 1 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rubber Fragments | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cloth Fragments | 2 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bricks, Cinderblocks & Chunks Of Cement | 1 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Fishing Line Spool | 1 |
Additional Information
Tourists & Water Sports
Mask
beverage cans
glass bottles
food wrappers
Comments and Feedback
The visibility was very bad, at only 0.5m - 1m at the dive site which we carried out this survey. Otherwise, we believe that there would have been many more debris which we could have collected as we were a team of 25 divers. There were also fragments of fishing nets which were found but it was attached to structures which were not removable and we did not have knives to cut off the net.
