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Dive Against Debris Data Submission

Bunaken Jetty

22 September, 2019

Team Leader
Alexander Sharp
Number of Participants
4
Total Debris Collected
14 kgs (measured)

1.5960518345317, 124.78344077686

Survey Information

Location Name
Bunaken Jetty
Organization/Dive Centre
Two Fish Divers Bunaken
City
Manado
Country
Indonesia
Date
22 September, 2019
Survey Duration
60 Minutes
GPS Coordinates
Latitude: 1.5960518345317
Longitude: 124.78344077686
Weather Conditions
Sunny, clear skies, low wind, no rain. Flat swell.
Survey Depth Range
4–12 meters
Area Surveyed
1104 m2
Dominant Substrate
coral
Ecosystem
coral reef
Wave Conditions
Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
plastic materials collected
Bags: Trash (plastic) 30
Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) 2
Bottles: Oil/lube 1
Diapers/nappies 2
Fishing: Line 45
Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets 2
Food Wrappers (plastic) 39
Straws, Stirrers 2
Plastic Fragments 80
Cigarette Filters 1
Rope (plastic/nylon) 4
glass materials collected
Glass & Ceramic Fragments 2
Beverage Bottles (glass) 5
metal materials collected
Caps & Lids (metal) 1
Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire 7
Metal Fragments 1
Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks 8
wood materials collected
Wood Fragments 2
cloth materials collected
Rope And String (cloth) 1
Cloth Fragments 35
paper materials collected
Cardboard: Packaging & Cartons 1
mixed materials collected
Clothing 10
other materials collected
Cassette 3
CD 1
Electrical plug socket 1
Sunglasses 1
Entangled Animals
Crustaceans
Species or Common Name Crab
Number Entangled 3
Status released unharmed
Type of Debris Material
Comments 3 very small crabs <1cm in diameter

No

Indonesian CD at 6m - that still worked (and sounded pretty cool!)

Fishing Line

Clothing / Material

Plastic bags/ Food wrappers


The dive site is a wall which is at the end of Bunaken Jetty where a lot of boats come in and out of every day, so any of the rubbish that goes into the water falls off the edge of the wall if it doesn't get stuck in the coral. There is a lot of fishing line and rope that has been there for a long time and has encrusting coral all over it.

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