ADS184 - Gold Coast Seaway
8 October, 2017
- Team Leader
- Kelly Fletcher
- Number of Participants
- 10
- Total Debris Collected
- 68.9 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
- 8 October, 2017
- Survey Duration
- 50 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: -27.93664
Longitude: 153.426301
- Weather Conditions
-
Rough
- Survey Depth Range
- 3–13 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 60 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- rock
- Ecosystem
- Man made seaway entrance, rock wall with sand bottom
- Wave Conditions
- Slight for waves 0.5 -1.25 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 4 |
| Fishing: Line | 450 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 46 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 1 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 3 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 5 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 6 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 2 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 969 |
Additional Information
Heavily fished area
Sunglasses
Fishing Line
Lead Sinkers
Hooks
Comments and Feedback
Unfortunately another Turtle lost it's life in the Gold Coast Seaway a few days prior to our scheduled Monthly Maintenance Dive, due to entanglement in fishing line. This is the second Turtle in three years to lose it's life at the same point in the Gold Coast Seaway, as area we now refer to as the "Death Zone" or "Spiderweb City" due to the build up of many years of snags and lost line. This is not a dive that can be done with ease on a single tank. We enlisted the help of a fair few EPIC Dive Buddy and Cos Mick (the poor Guy had the displeasure of discovering the Turtle earlier in the week with the Devocean Dive Crew) brought his Boat! We loaded our gear onto the Micks Boat (after getting yelled at by the parking ladies) and off he went to launch. The rest of us took our Mask, Snorkels and Fins and began the long walk, wetsuit clad (in the Queensland Sun) to rock hop and swim out to retrieve our gear off the boat. Vis was nothing to write home about but we could definitely work with it. The Spiderwebs were exactly as we remembered them, offensive and everywhere. We also removed 25m of Steel Cable which when used as a transect line was amazing, however a couple of years in, it is nothing but an entanglement hazard of the worst kind. One of our Divers had to remove a Ganghook and line debris from beneath a Wobbeygong Shark, due to the curtain of line and hooks hanging off the cable. We will be going back for more over our next dives.
284 Lead Sinkers 34 Lures 362 Hooks 289 Swivels
