Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Agios Spiridonas Beach - Porto Rafti
13 October, 2019
- Team Leader
- Luc Lakeman
- Number of Participants
- 10
- Total Debris Collected
- 350 kgs (estimated)
37.891342512516, 24.024932623536
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Agios Spiridonas Beach - Porto Rafti
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Blue Yard Hub
- City
- Porto Rafti
- Country
- Greece
- Date
- 13 October, 2019
- Survey Duration
- 60 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 37.891342512516
Longitude: 24.024932623536
- Weather Conditions
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Very changeable weather ... beautiful sunny days exchanged by windy days with the wind coming from different direction on different days.
- Survey Depth Range
- 3–9 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 20380 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- seagrass
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
plastic materials collected | |
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Bags: Trash (plastic) | 8 |
Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 62 |
Buckets, Drums & Jerrycans-2 Liters Or More | 7 |
Buoys & Floats (plastic & Foamed) | 3 |
Caps & Lids (plastic) | 8 |
Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 22 |
Fishing: Line | 10 |
Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 2 |
Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 11 |
SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 1 |
Plastic Fragments | 44 |
Rope (plastic/nylon) | 2 |
glass materials collected | |
---|---|
Cups & Plates-tableware/dishes (glass & Ceramic) | 2 |
Jars-food (glass) | 1 |
Light Globes/bulbs/tubes | 4 |
Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 2 |
Beverage Bottles (glass) | 19 |
metal materials collected | |
---|---|
Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 143 |
Cars & Car Parts | 3 |
Metal Fragments | 6 |
rubber materials collected | |
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Tires/tyres | 9 |
Rubber Fragments | 1 |
cloth materials collected | |
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Rope And String (cloth) | 5 |
Cloth Fragments | 4 |
paper materials collected | |
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Cardboard: Packaging & Cartons | 4 |
mixed materials collected | |
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Bricks, Cinderblocks & Chunks Of Cement | 11 |
Clothing | 1 |
Computer Equipment & Other Electronic Devices | 3 |
Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 6 |
other materials collected | |
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Large pieces of boat wreckage | 9 |
Boat water pump | 1 |
Anchor chain | 1 |
Sun umbrella | 1 |
Additional Information
No I am not.
A large Caretta caretta sea turtle with three flippers. It was incredibly calm and engaging with the divers.
Lots of abandoned boat moarings
Aluminium soft drink cans
Concrete building blocks intended to draw octopuses
Comments and Feedback
A video of the clean-up is available at: https://www.facebook.com/blueyardhub/videos/447535905963981/