ADS370 - Blue Bay The Wall & The Garden
15 September, 2019
- Team Leader
- PADI Master Instructor Ivana 356300 and PADI Staff Instructor Felicia Dolman 390958
- Number of Participants
- 39
- Total Debris Collected
- 28.5 kgs (measured)
12.134409, -68.985034
Survey Information
- Location Name
- ADS370 - Blue Bay The Wall & The Garden
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Blue Bay Dive
- City
- Curacao
- Country
- Netherlands Antilles
- Date
- 15 September, 2019
- Survey Duration
- 42 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 12.134409
Longitude: -68.985034
- Weather Conditions
-
sunny
- Survey Depth Range
- 2–28 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 5000 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 | |
|---|---|
| Balls | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 3 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 36 |
| Fishing: Line | 250 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 2 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 2 |
| Straws, Stirrers | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 81 |
| Cigarette Filters | 12 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Jars-food (glass) | 1 |
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 5 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 11 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 11 |
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 3 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 1 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 2 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 1 |
| Metal Fragments | 5 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 1 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Gloves (rubber) | 1 |
| Rubber Bands | 5 |
| Rubber Fragments | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 25 |
| Cloth Fragments | 9 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Paper, Cardboard Fragments | 1 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bricks, Cinderblocks & Chunks Of Cement | 1 |
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 2 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Electric Wire | 1 |
| Small Anchor | 1 |
Additional Information
Fishing Line: local fishermen Plastic and Fabrics: resorts, tourist, local culture to throw rubbish on the ground, no proper bins with covers, no proper recycle facilities on the island ect.
SD card and Electric Wire
fishing line
plastic cups
macroplastic
Comments and Feedback
We will never stop trying, together we can make a difference. Aware week is an amazing project. We will keep doing our once a month Clean Up Dive and Dive Against Debris dive to share our passion and the love of our oceans
We followed AWARE week's theme for this monthly clean up: Building Bridges! We built our beautiful rendition of the Queen Juliana Bridge in Curacao and at the end of the dive/clean up, we asked all volunteers to put a piece of debris (debris collected from our Dive Against Debris dive) on the bridge! NO TRASH/RUBBISH in the water, team and community effort to want to make a difference all together. YES we can <3
