Carr's Bay
6 June, 2016
- Team Leader
- Charley Bartlett
- Number of Participants
- 13
- Total Debris Collected
- 16 kgs (measured)
16.797, -62.209875
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Carr's Bay
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Montserrat Island Dive Centre
- City
- Carr's Bay
- Country
- Montserrat
- Date
- 6 June, 2016
- Survey Duration
- 57 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 16.797
Longitude: -62.209875
- Weather Conditions
-
Calm lapping shores, low wind
- Survey Depth Range
- 3.1–10.5 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 395.525 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 14 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 27 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 3 |
| Cigarette Lighters | 1 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 31 |
| Fishing: Line | 1 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 6 |
| Toothbrushes | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 32 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 152 |
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 29 |
| Cars & Car Parts | 1 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 1 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 14 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Condoms | 1 |
| Gloves (rubber) | 2 |
| Inner-tubes & Rubber Sheets | 1 |
| Rubber Bands | 1 |
| Tires/tyres | 4 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 2 |
| Towels/rags | 11 |
| Cloth Fragments | 4 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| boat hatch cover (metal & plastic) | 1 |
Additional Information
There are 2 river outlets, or locally known ghauts, that run to the beach at this site. These ghauts run down through villages and carry waste with them.
A wrapped unused condom
Beveridge cans - collecting in pockets along the shore side of the reef
Clothing - entangled around coral, smothering and hindering its growth
Polystyrene - although collected from beach along the shore line they were saved from detroying the reef
Comments and Feedback
We have had a mixed bag of assistance with our Dive Against Debris and Beach CleanUp efforts. This months clean up came with a team packed of enthusiastic conservationists from Coral Cay Conservation to which we are very grateful! We are also extremely grateful to all those who assist on the beach. It doesn't require underwater skills to help save and protect our oceans, it all starts on the land.
