Dive Against Debris Data Submission
ADS305 - House Reef
20 June, 2019
- Team Leader
- Kim Timmers
- Number of Participants
- 7
- Total Debris Collected
- 2.73 kgs (measured)
28.14203, -16.438416
Survey Information
- Location Name
- ADS305 - House Reef
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Tenerife Diving Academy
- City
- Abades
- Country
- Spain
- Date
- 20 June, 2019
- Survey Duration
- 60 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 28.14203
Longitude: -16.438416
- Weather Conditions
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Very windy, sometimes even stormy
- Survey Depth Range
- 1–8 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 500 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- rocky reef
- Wave Conditions
- Slight for waves 0.5 -1.25 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 1 |
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 2 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 1 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 5 |
| Cotton Bud Sticks | 5 |
| Fishing: Line | 9 |
| Foam Insulation & Packaging | 3 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 18 |
| Furnishings (plastic) | 1 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 1 |
| Sheeting: Tarpaulin, Plastic Sheets, Palette Wrap | 1 |
| Straws, Stirrers | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 95 |
| Cigarette Filters | 31 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 50 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Jars-food (glass) | 1 |
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 30 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 2 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 3 |
| Pipes & Rebar | 2 |
| Pull Tabs-beverages | 3 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 2 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 1 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rubber Bands | 3 |
| Rubber Fragments | 7 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Wood Fragments | 4 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cloth Fragments | 15 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Paper, Cardboard Fragments | 17 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 1 |
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 1 |
Additional Information
Low tide, full moon, campers in Abades because summer is starting, they throw debris everywhere..
Unusual amount of fishing line...! in a Marine Protected Area
Fishing line
Plastic fragments
Cigarette butts
Comments and Feedback
Picture is our new addition, a model of an Angel Shark I made, to attract attention to what humans are doing to Angel Sharks
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