Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Sham Wan, Lamma Island
11 November, 2017
- Team Leader
- Tursiopsdiver
- Number of Participants
- 3
- Total Debris Collected
- 5 kgs (estimated)
22.19025, 114.137173
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Sham Wan, Lamma Island
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Mandarin divers
- City
- Lamma Island
- Country
- Hong Kong S.A.R., China
- Date
- 11 November, 2017
- Survey Duration
- 51 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 22.19025
Longitude: 114.137173
- Weather Conditions
-
Sunny and windy
- Survey Depth Range
- 1.8–7.7 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 716.69 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- rocky reef
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 4 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 1 |
| Fishing: Line | 8 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 6 |
| Foam Insulation & Packaging | 1 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 5 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 5 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cups & Plates-tableware/dishes (glass & Ceramic) | 1 |
| Light Globes/bulbs/tubes | 1 |
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 2 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 2 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 1 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Gloves (cloth) | 3 |
| Cloth Fragments | 1 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bubble wrap | 2 |
Additional Information
Light bulb and shoes
Plastic
Abandoned fishing gear
Comments and Feedback
It was our second dive of the day, we found a lot more trash on the other side of the bay. The visibility was low, 0.5-1 m, thus our survey was quite restricted.
