Dive Against Debris Data Submission
McAbee Beach
16 September, 2018
- Team Leader
- Melissa Boyd
- Number of Participants
- 20
- Total Debris Collected
- 138.31 lbs (measured)
36.603592, -121.887789
Survey Information
- Location Name
- McAbee Beach
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Country
- United States
- Date
- 16 September, 2018
- Survey Duration
- 51 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 36.603592
Longitude: -121.887789
- Weather Conditions
-
Sunny and calm
- Survey Depth Range
- 5–40 feet
- Area Surveyed
- 23218 ft2
- Dominant Substrate
- rock
- Ecosystem
- kelp
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 3 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 4 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 4 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 1 |
| Straws, Stirrers | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 14 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Jars-food (glass) | 1 |
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 16 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 1 |
| Forks, Knives, Spoons (cutlery) | 2 |
| Pipes & Rebar | 4 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 1 |
| Metal Fragments | 9 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 11 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rubber Bands | 2 |
| Tires/tyres | 1 |
| Rubber Fragments | 10 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags (cloth) | 1 |
| Towels/rags | 1 |
| Cloth Fragments | 1 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bricks, Cinderblocks & Chunks Of Cement | 1 |
| Toys | 335 |
Additional Information
A restaurant, located on the pier, seems to be responsible for supplying all the 300+ crayons we found on the bottom of the sea floor.
crayons
crayons
Comments and Feedback
We were featured on the News (see video link below): https://www.ksbw.com/article/monterey-divers-find-hundreds-of-crayons-littering-ocean-floor/23288143?fbclid=IwAR3lLEVXSdRY_czivyZBKAhFKREKJKL7RgQBWvYbDoaqVrzO0k9Mq51nh_I
