Dive Against Debris Data Submission
ADS323 - Tung Ping Chau
1 July, 2017
- Team Leader
- Tursiopsdiver
- Number of Participants
- 2
- Total Debris Collected
- 4 kgs (estimated)
22.545909, 114.431823
Survey Information
- Location Name
- ADS323 - Tung Ping Chau
- Organization/Dive Centre
- City
- Tung Ping Chau Island
- Country
- Hong Kong S.A.R., China
- Date
- 1 July, 2017
- Survey Duration
- 86 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 22.545909
Longitude: 114.431823
- Weather Conditions
-
Rainy with sunny intervals
- Survey Depth Range
- 1.6–4.6 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 8187.87 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- coral
- Ecosystem
- coral 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) | 2 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 2 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 1 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 4 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 3 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 3 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 2 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 1 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 1 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 1 |
| Fishing: Traps & Pots | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags (cloth) | 1 |
| Cloth Fragments | 1 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Medication package | 1 |
Additional Information
Probably brought in by the current. Some of the food packages found are from China based on the label (mandarin not cantonese)
One of the tree items we could not remove, please see pictures.
Abandoned fishing gears
Plastic items
Comments and Feedback
We found three items that were two big/already became part of the reef for the two of us to remove: 1 tire (77) 1 buoy (12) 1 item we could not identify, probably used for fishing Please see pictures for your reference
