Dive Against Debris Data Submission
WEST VIEW - Iniciativa bajo Tranquilo
6 June, 2016
- Team Leader
- Jorge Sanchez
- Number of Participants
- 22
- Total Debris Collected
- 320 kgs (measured)
12.555569, -81.731769
Survey Information
- Location Name
- WEST VIEW - Iniciativa bajo Tranquilo
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Diver Station
- City
- San Andres, Isla
- Country
- Colombia
- Date
- 6 June, 2016
- Survey Duration
- 180 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 12.555569
Longitude: -81.731769
- Weather Conditions
-
Buenas
- Survey Depth Range
- 3.2–13.5 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 3600 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- rocky reef
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 51 |
| Buckets, Drums & Jerrycans-2 Liters Or More | 1 |
| Furnishings (plastic) | 1 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 4 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 4 |
| Sheeting: Tarpaulin, Plastic Sheets, Palette Wrap | 1 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 3 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 17 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 197 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Fishing: Traps & Pots | 3 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 2 |
| Cloth Fragments | 92 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 1 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Sharks & Rays | |
| Species or Common Name | sting ray |
| Number Entangled | 2 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | rope |
| Other Fish | |
| Species or Common Name | Gobidos |
| Number Entangled | 67 |
| Status | dead |
| Type of Debris | Clothes - bottle |
| Crustaceans | |
| Species or Common Name | Mollosk |
| Number Entangled | 76 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | Clothes |
| Other Animals | |
| Species or Common Name | Crustaceans |
| Number Entangled | 119 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | Chotles - bottles |
| Comments | Equinodems: 67 still alive. Green Moreans: 3 still alive |
