Ravenspoint Bay - Anglesey
5 August, 2018
- Team Leader
- Susannah Noble
- Number of Participants
- 2
- Total Debris Collected
- 0.45 kgs (measured)
53.271325614545, -4.6240697642047
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Ravenspoint Bay - Anglesey
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Scuba Leeds
- City
- Leeds
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Date
- 5 August, 2018
- Survey Duration
- 79 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 53.271325614545
Longitude: -4.6240697642047
- Weather Conditions
-
Some rain the previous week
- Survey Depth Range
- 3–9 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 503 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 | |
|---|---|
| Fishing: Line | 2 |
| Plastic Fragments | 4 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cars & Car Parts | 3 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Headphones | 1 |
| Small boat aerial | 1 |
| Fishing fly and wire | 2 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Crustaceans | |
| Species or Common Name | Edible crab |
| Number Entangled | 1 |
| Status | dead |
| Type of Debris | Fishing wire |
| Comments | The fishing wire appeared to be wrapped about the crabs claw |
Additional Information
A pair of headphones
Fishing wire - wrapped around a dead crab
Sharp metal from fishing flies
Small pieces of plastic
Comments and Feedback
Great dive spot! The visibility was 6-7 meters, would highly recommend this spot for a pleasure dive. The local area seem to have made a great effort in keeping the beaches clean, with bins available on all the exits from the beaches, and you could see the beaches were a lot cleaner than others we have visited. As the beaches were clean, we found less plastic than expected but an issue in the area with fishing wire (lots of boat traffic above the dive spot and in the surrounding bays). During the dive we found a dead crab with fishing wire wrapped around its claw - bought home the difference removing this debris makes to our marine life. A lot of fishing wire we found was wrapped about the kelp, and needed our line cutter to remove the lines. A good little haul of debris reclaimed from the sea, 0.45kgs of wire, plastic and metal removed :)
