Dive Against Debris Data Submission
ADS168 - Abu Sauatir
19 April, 2017
- Team Leader
- Allan Prommik
- Number of Participants
- 2
- Total Debris Collected
- 0.4 kgs (measured)
26.205403139253, 34.219644136246
Survey Information
- Location Name
- ADS168 - Abu Sauatir
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Pharaoh Dive Club
- City
- el quseir
- Country
- Egypt
- Date
- 19 April, 2017
- Survey Duration
- 55 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 26.205403139253
Longitude: 34.219644136246
- Weather Conditions
-
Windy
- Survey Depth Range
- 1–19 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 5393 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- coral
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 4 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 2 |
| Fishing: Line | 1 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 18 |
| Plastic Fragments | 1 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cardboard: Packaging & Cartons | 1 |
Additional Information
Egyptian public holiday so families having picnics on the local beach usually shows an increase in food wrappers for a while.
plastic bags as marine animals try and eat them
Food wrappers from picnics etc gets blown into the sea and caught in corals etc.
plastic bottles. we have no recycling facilities here so lots of plastic bottles end up getting blown into the sea
