Dive Against Debris Data Submission
ADS184 - Gold Coast Seaway
30 April, 2017
- Team Leader
- Kelly Fletcher
- Number of Participants
- 10
- Total Debris Collected
- 27 kgs (measured)
-27.93664, 153.426301
Survey Information
- Location Name
- ADS184 - Gold Coast Seaway
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Environmental Divers
- City
- Gold Coast
- Country
- Australia
- Date
- 30 April, 2017
- Survey Duration
- 58 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: -27.93664
Longitude: 153.426301
- Weather Conditions
-
Fair
- Survey Depth Range
- 2–18 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 70 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- rock
- Ecosystem
- Man made seaway entrance, rock wall with sand bottom
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 2 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 1 |
| Carpet (synthetic) | 1 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 2 |
| Fishing: Line | 12000 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 40 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 6 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 2 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 1 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 6 |
| Forks, Knives, Spoons (cutlery) | 1 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 1099 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 1 |
| Towels/rags | 1 |
| Cloth Fragments | 1 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 4 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| USB "Adult" Toy | 1 |
| Dive tank banger | 1 |
| Pliers | 1 |
| Crab Pot | 1 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Other Fish | |
| Species or Common Name | Moray Eel |
| Number Entangled | 3 |
| Status | injured |
| Type of Debris | Hook and Line |
| Comments | Moray had swallowed a hook as well as been foul hooked and was actually dragging around a ball of sinkers. Removed mouth hook first and removed the gang hooks from his side. |
Additional Information
Heavily fished over the School Holidays.
USB " Adult" Toy
Fishing Line
Lead Sinkers
Hooks
Comments and Feedback
The Fishing line broke down into two 70L Buckets. The quantities of fishing related gear removed - Sinkers - 455, Hooks - 398, Swivels - 209, Joiners - 37, Soft Lures - 27, Hard Lures - 10, Castnet - 1
Lots of diver entanglement today due to many people getting out and about on the waterways.
