Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Hummingbird Reef
5 July, 2018
- Team Leader
- Georgiana Merlusca
- Number of Participants
- 7
- Total Debris Collected
- 16 lbs (measured)
13.858224590896, -61.063437915938
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Hummingbird Reef
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Scuba St lucia
- City
- Soufriere
- Country
- Saint Lucia
- Date
- 5 July, 2018
- Survey Duration
- 47 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 13.858224590896
Longitude: -61.063437915938
- Weather Conditions
-
Good weather, a bit cloudy.
- Survey Depth Range
- 16–55 feet
- Area Surveyed
- 650 ft2
- Dominant Substrate
- coral
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 1 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 1 |
| Fishing: Line | 50 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 5 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Jars-food (glass) | 1 |
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 2 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 1 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 18 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rubber Bands | 1 |
| Tires/tyres | 1 |
| Rubber Fragments | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cloth Fragments | 3 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Paper, Cardboard Fragments | 1 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 2 |
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 1 |
| Tampons | 1 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| cork | 1 |
| electrical wire | 1 |
| anchor shaft | 1 |
Additional Information
A lot of fishing line in the area and no dive against debris in a few good years.
Designer Jeans Shorts
fishing line
plastic fragments
fishing weights
Comments and Feedback
This was a class for Dive Against Debris with 6 students from Kids Sea Camp.
It is a huge problem on this dive site; all the fishing line is affecting the corals. We found a lot of line wrapped in the coral. We have weighted all the fishing line and the total is 3 pounds.
