Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Suwami North
8 August, 2018
- Team Leader
- Dave
- Number of Participants
- 6
- Total Debris Collected
- 3 kgs (estimated)
8.5787845032778, 81.24201405191
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Suwami North
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Scuba Safaris
- City
- Trincomalee
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Date
- 8 August, 2018
- Survey Duration
- 61 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 8.5787845032778
Longitude: 81.24201405191
- Weather Conditions
-
Calm
- Survey Depth Range
- 4–13 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 10912.4 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- rock
- Ecosystem
- rocky reef
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 5 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 1 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 1 |
| Fishing: Line | 5 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 2 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 2 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 7 |
| Sheeting: Tarpaulin, Plastic Sheets, Palette Wrap | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 10 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 2 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 3 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Batteries: AA, AAA, C & D, 6V, 9V, Etc. | 3 |
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 2 |
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 1 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 6 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags (burlap) | 1 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Nokia 3210 | 1 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Marine Mammals | |
| Species or Common Name | Large Wrasse Maybe |
| Number Entangled | 2 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | Large fishing net |
| Comments | Did not remove net. Too much work on dive. Will organise specific dive. One was dead |
Additional Information
Usual activity
Mobile phone
Plastic in general
Old fishing nets
