Bunaken Jetty
15 May, 2019
- Team Leader
- Maia Brooke
- Number of Participants
- 9
- Total Debris Collected
- 37.78 kgs (measured)
1.5960171345085, 124.78342540198
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Bunaken Jetty
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Two Fish Divers Bunaken
- City
- Manado
- Country
- Indonesia
- Date
- 15 May, 2019
- Survey Duration
- 50 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 1.5960171345085
Longitude: 124.78342540198
- Weather Conditions
-
Sunny, flat seas, little to no wind, mild to moderate currents at dive sites nearby the Jetty.
- Survey Depth Range
- 3–20 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 1104 m2
- 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) | 2 |
| Bait Containers, Packaging | 3 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 8 |
| Carpet (synthetic) | 2 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 1 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 9 |
| Diapers/nappies | 5 |
| Fishing: Line | 19 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 56 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 2 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 2 |
| Sheeting: Tarpaulin, Plastic Sheets, Palette Wrap | 36 |
| Tobacco Packaging & Wrappers | 6 |
| Plastic Fragments | 21 |
| Cigarette Filters | 1 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Light Globes/bulbs/tubes | 1 |
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 9 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 6 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Batteries: AA, AAA, C & D, 6V, 9V, Etc. | 2 |
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 7 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 2 |
| Metal Fragments | 1 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Tires/tyres | 1 |
| Rubber Fragments | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Gloves (cloth) | 1 |
| Rope And String (cloth) | 4 |
| Towels/rags | 3 |
| Cloth Fragments | 60 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 26 |
| Computer Equipment & Other Electronic Devices | 1 |
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 4 |
| Toys | 1 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Crustaceans | |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Other Animals | |
| Species or Common Name | Juvinile Nudibranch and Brittle Star |
| Number Entangled | 3 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | Found on Clothing and Rope |
| Comments | 1x Nudibranch - it wasn't entangled but spotted while sorting through the debris. About 1mm in size. 2x small brittle stars found as they came out of the inside of a clump of tangled ropes and line |
Additional Information
No event specifically. The site we surveyed and collected debris is the main wharf for the ferry between the island and the mainland. This may have contributed to the amount of clothing/food wrappers
A wall analog clock, it had a lot of animals already living inside and was secured well in between the coral. This was not removed.
Food Wrappers. W found so many snack wrappers which are quite small so with any current they would get swept away
Plastic sheet pieces. They get caught in the coral and break into smaller pieces which could get swept away.
Clothing and fragments. These were caught on the coral and some were smothering patches of the reef.
Comments and Feedback
This is not a dive site we do regularly because of its location next to the wharf but will do another Dive Against Debris here soon to compare results. There was a lot of rope that we did not remove as it has been there so long corals and animals have already claimed it. We did see a blue nudibranch we hadn't seen before (Ceratosoma sinuatum).
