Dive Against Debris - Hong Kong Port Island (Chek Chau)
5 May, 2019
- Team Leader
- Roger Chan
- Number of Participants
- 7
- Total Debris Collected
- 30 kgs (measured)
22.496317, 114.359478
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Dive Against Debris - Hong Kong Port Island (Chek Chau)
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Aquatic Life Conservation Fund
- City
- Sai Kung
- Country
- Hong Kong S.A.R., China
- Date
- 5 May, 2019
- Survey Duration
- 51 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 22.496317
Longitude: 114.359478
- Weather Conditions
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Mainly cloudy with occasional showers. Temperatures will range between 20 and 24 degrees. Fresh easterly winds, strong offshore and on high ground.
- Survey Depth Range
- 5–14 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 150 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 1 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cups & Plates-tableware/dishes (glass & Ceramic) | 2 |
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 20 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 5 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 1 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Crustaceans | |
| Species or Common Name | Smaill Crab |
| Number Entangled | 5 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | fish net |
| Comments | Over 5 life crab are entangled by the fish net and we are help to release it |
Additional Information
we found a large canvas about 5 meters x 3 meters, which is believed this to be the roof of top form the speedboat
broken ceramic fragments
beverage bottles (glass)
Comments and Feedback
During the program on today and we are most successfully to complete the “Dive Against Debris” in the location Hong Kong Sai Kung Port Island , also known as the name is “Chek Chau”. What we got today is most of broken ceramic fragments, beverage bottles (glass) , sandals , fishing net (pieces of nets) , etc ……. Also , we are bring back one canvas is the large size at approximate 5m x 2m and we believe this is the roof of top form the fishing boat. This dive site we are in third time to carry out this project and it seems it is a slightly improve at the present , the total weight we collect on today had measure at around is 30kg and due to the weather and underwater visibility is not in the expectation and it may be more.
we will conduct this project in the third quarter of this year to check it out again to see the condition will it badly then before , hope this is not ……. !!
