ADS98 - Carr's Bay
6 June, 2016
- Team Leader
- Charley Bartlett
- Number of Participants
- 13
- Total Debris Collected
- 16 kgs (measured)
16.797613, -62.209875
Survey Information
- Location Name
- ADS98 - 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: 16.797613
Longitude: -62.209875
- Weather Conditions
-
Calm lapping waves, very little wind
- Survey Depth Range
- 3.1–10.5 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 395.525 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 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 beds, or locally known ghauts, that lead directly to the beach front. These ghauts pass through villages uphill and carry waste to our shores.
An used wrapped 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 all way receive a mixed response for assistance at our Dive Against Debris and Beach Clean Up events. This month we had great help from a team of enthusiastic conservationists from Coral Cay Conservation, for which we are very grateful. We are also extremely grateful to all those who assist on the beach. You don't have to have special underwater skills to protect and save our oceans, it all begins on the land!
