Skala Sikamineas breakwater and harbour mouth, Lesvos, Greece
20 December, 2017
- Team Leader
- Jan Ziolo
- Number of Participants
- 1
- Total Debris Collected
- 3 kgs (estimated)
39.37434357484, 26.302685653791
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Skala Sikamineas breakwater and harbour mouth, Lesvos, Greece
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Fathoms Free
- City
- Newquay
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Date
- 20 December, 2017
- Survey Duration
- 70 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 39.37434357484
Longitude: 26.302685653791
- Weather Conditions
-
North Easterlies with intermittent showers and rainfall.
- Survey Depth Range
- 2–10 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 83 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- rock
- Ecosystem
- seagrass
- Wave Conditions
- Slight for waves 0.5 -1.25 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 1 |
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 2 |
| Fishing: Line | 2 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 3 |
| Plastic Fragments | 6 |
Additional Information
Shore fishing (2 lengths of monofilament aligned with shore slipway), commercial day boat fishing (ghost gear pot found in harbour mouth.
Comments and Feedback
This dive has been conducted as a Skin Dive Against Debris as most debris is easily within skin diving depths. I am a PADI OWSI and an activist diver with Fathoms Free, Newquay, UK.
I am currently volunteer crew on a rescue boat for Refugee Rescue, a Nongovernmental Organisation that provides afloat search and rescue support to the Hellenic Coast Guard for refugees crossing the Aegean. The crossings, as well as being a humanitarian crisis, are posing an ecological disaster to the Aegean and the Mediterranean, as the concentration of abandoned plastics (personal possessions, sunken dinghies, lost buoyancy aids, water bottles etc) is greater than anywhere I have ever dived previously. There are 2 abandoned vinyl dinghies on the breakwater above the waterline that I intend to access from shore and cut up into sections for disposal and removal.
