Dive Against Debris Data Submission
ADS402 - Hu Shun Yu 809 Wreck
12 February, 2018
- Team Leader
- Christian M. Elhordoy
- Number of Participants
- 10
- Total Debris Collected
- 1 kgs (estimated)
-42.769637, -64.995945
Survey Information
- Location Name
- ADS402 - Hu Shun Yu 809 Wreck
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Sea Divers
- City
- Puerto Madryn
- Country
- Argentina
- Date
- 12 February, 2018
- Survey Duration
- 25 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: -42.769637
Longitude: -64.995945
- Weather Conditions
-
Good, but windy
- Survey Depth Range
- 15–30 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 700 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- Artificial shipwreck reef
- Wave Conditions
- Slight for waves 0.5 -1.25 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 1 |
| Fishing: Line | 2 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 3 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Other Fish | |
| Species or Common Name | Grouper (Mero) |
| Number Entangled | 1 |
| Status | dead |
| Type of Debris | Fishing line, hooks and sinkers |
| Comments | The grouper (mero in Spanish) was hooked to a hook of an abandoned line. |
Additional Information
The cause of the waste was surely a boat of illegal fishermen. There should be no waste in the place, as it is an artificial wreck sunk recently, on December 27, 2017, to be visited by divers and to promote ecotourism in the region.
A fishing line with a grouper hooked to it.
Fishing line
A bottle
Sinkers
Comments and Feedback
The entire diving community of Argentina will have to be more attentive to illegal fishermen, they are already causing damage to an artificial reef that has only three months since its creation.
