Dive Against Debris Data Submission
ADS184 - Gold Coast Seaway
6 January, 2018
- Team Leader
- Kelly Fletcher
- Number of Participants
- 12
- Total Debris Collected
- 19.8 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
- 6 January, 2018
- Survey Duration
- 60 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: -27.93664
Longitude: 153.426301
- Weather Conditions
-
Fair - King Tides
- Survey Depth Range
- 1–15 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 90 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- rock
- Ecosystem
- Man made seaway entrance, rock wall with sand bottom
- Wave Conditions
- Moderate to rough for waves greater than 1.25 meters
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 1 |
| Bait Containers, Packaging | 2 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 2 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 2 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 1 |
| Fishing: Line | 315 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 1 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 5 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 3 |
| Tobacco Packaging & Wrappers | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 11 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 1 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 2 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Batteries: AA, AAA, C & D, 6V, 9V, Etc. | 2 |
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 10 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 1 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 3 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 503 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cloth Fragments | 4 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 2 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Sunglasses | 1 |
| Plastic Glove | 1 |
| Knife | 1 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Marine Mammals | |
| Species or Common Name | Banded Moray Eel |
| Number Entangled | 1 |
| Status | dead |
| Type of Debris | Hook and line entangled |
| Comments | Dead, strangulated by line. |
Additional Information
Highly used area
Sunglasses, Knife, Plastic Glove
Fishing Line
Lead Sinkers
Hooks
Comments and Feedback
Had both snorkelers and Divers in the water for our first public event aka Monthly Maintenance Dive of 2018. Many thanks to Charmaine from the ABC Gold Coast for coming and speaking with our divers and the amazing piece she did on Environmental Divers regarding our continuous efforts in the Gold Coast Seaway.
Fishing Debris Breakdown - Hard Lures - 3 Soft Lures - 6 Hooks - 186 Swivels - 176 Sinkers - 125 Wire Trace - 7
