ADS338 - Mordialloc Pier
24 September, 2017
- Team Leader
- Madi
- Number of Participants
- 7
- Total Debris Collected
- 20 kgs (estimated)
-38.010888017822, 145.08417776786
Survey Information
- Location Name
- ADS338 - Mordialloc Pier
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Academy of Scuba
- City
- Camberwell
- Country
- Australia
- Date
- 24 September, 2017
- Survey Duration
- 60 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: -38.010888017822
Longitude: 145.08417776786
- Weather Conditions
-
Moderate winds and some rain, otherwise generally fair conditions.
- Survey Depth Range
- 1.9–4 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 8363.82 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- rock
- Ecosystem
- rocky reef
- Wave Conditions
- Slight for waves 0.5 -1.25 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bait Containers, Packaging | 1 |
| Balls | 3 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 2 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 1 |
| Fishing: Line | 30 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 12 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 1 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 1 |
| Straws, Stirrers | 1 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 45 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 15 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Batteries: AA, AAA, C & D, 6V, 9V, Etc. | 2 |
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 6 |
| Pipes & Rebar | 1 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 25 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Wood Fragments | 2 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags (cloth) | 1 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bricks, Cinderblocks & Chunks Of Cement | 1 |
| Computer Equipment & Other Electronic Devices | 1 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Ammunition | 1 |
| Metal Surgical Scissors | 1 |
| Wooden fishing rod | 1 |
Additional Information
Fishermen are always present at this pier, hence why there is always such a high percentage of fishing lines, lures, rods and other various fishing paraphernalia. The high quantities of beverage cans and glasses is clearly due to people not bothering to put their drinks in the bin, and instead choosing to throw them off the pier. There was a range of very old bottles to clearly much newer bottles and cans, which shows that there is still some work to be done with education about throwing rubbish into the sea.
Live ammunition. Eeek. Couldn't put this in a normal rubbish bin!
Live ammunition
Fishing lures
Fishing line
Comments and Feedback
We always have to reset our password when logging in to MyOcean - it never recognizes our password!
It's been interesting revisiting Mordialloc each month to Dive Against Debris. We have found that, for the most part, under the pier itself is now relatively clear of marine debris. However, out in the surrounding rocky reefs, there is still much to be cleaned up - and the discovery of clearly recently discarded items means there is still work to do in this area about re-educating people not to just throw their trash off the pier.
