Dive Against Debris Data Submission
ADS359 - Tug Boats Zonqor Point
23 April, 2018
- Team Leader
- Abigail Borg
- Number of Participants
- 15
- Total Debris Collected
- 99 kgs (estimated)
35.866992, 14.573215
Survey Information
- Location Name
- ADS359 - Tug Boats Zonqor Point
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Divemed
- City
- Marsascala
- Country
- Malta
- Date
- 23 April, 2018
- Survey Duration
- 40 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 35.866992
Longitude: 14.573215
- Weather Conditions
-
Good
- Survey Depth Range
- 5–21 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 14299 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- rocky reef
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 136 |
| Bait Containers, Packaging | 2 |
| Balls | 2 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 540 |
| Buckets, Drums & Jerrycans-2 Liters Or More | 3 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 80 |
| Cigarette Lighters | 5 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 21 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 46 |
| Fishing: Line | 12 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 2 |
| Foam Insulation & Packaging | 19 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 106 |
| Furnishings (plastic) | 4 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 31 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 12 |
| Syringes (plastic) | 1 |
| Tobacco Packaging & Wrappers | 9 |
| Plastic Fragments | 14 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 50 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Jars-food (glass) | 4 |
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 10 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 183 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Aerosol/spray Cans | 4 |
| Appliances: Household | 4 |
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 206 |
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 6 |
| Cars & Car Parts | 7 |
| Pipes & Rebar | 17 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 11 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 5 |
| Batteries: Car Or Boat | 6 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Condoms | 1 |
| Inner-tubes & Rubber Sheets | 10 |
| Tires/tyres | 1 |
| Rubber Fragments | 3 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Pallets | 4 |
| Wood Fragments | 2 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags (cloth) | 2 |
| Towels/rags | 1 |
| Cloth Fragments | 79 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cardboard: Packaging & Cartons | 65 |
| Paper, Cardboard Fragments | 93 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bricks, Cinderblocks & Chunks Of Cement | 1 |
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 41 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Gun shells | 25 |
| Sunglasses | 5 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Crustaceans | |
| Species or Common Name | Crabs |
| Number Entangled | 3 |
| Type of Debris | Not provided |
Additional Information
No
Local council signage
Takeaway boxes
Large number of shoes
