Dive Against Debris Data Submission
ADS632 - Jumeirah Beach
6 December, 2019
- Team Leader
- Paul Firth
- Number of Participants
- 11
- Total Debris Collected
- 25 kgs (measured)
25.219872412814, 55.250889770661
Survey Information
- Location Name
- ADS632 - Jumeirah Beach
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Al Boom
- City
- Dubai
- Country
- United Arab Emirates
- Date
- 6 December, 2019
- Survey Duration
- 45 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 25.219872412814
Longitude: 55.250889770661
- Weather Conditions
-
Mixture of rough seas to 1m wave height and calm conditions, high winds.
- Survey Depth Range
- 2–6 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 30000 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- Sandy bottom with patches of coral
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 36 |
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 16 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 13 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 28 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 7 |
| Cigarette Lighters | 1 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 1 |
| Diapers/nappies | 1 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 7 |
| Gloves (latex) | 1 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 1 |
| Straws, Stirrers | 1 |
| Tobacco Packaging & Wrappers | 3 |
| Plastic Fragments | 9 |
| Cigarette Filters | 8 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 1 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 2 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 2 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 13 |
| Pipes & Rebar | 1 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 1 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 7 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Condoms | 2 |
| Gloves (rubber) | 1 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Wood Fragments | 3 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 1 |
| Towels/rags | 1 |
| Cloth Fragments | 1 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Paper, Cardboard Fragments | 2 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 3 |
| Fireworks | 6 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| sunglasses | 2 |
Additional Information
sunglasses
plastic drinking bottles from beach visitors
Comments and Feedback
It was a great team effort to collect the amount we did. Also the general public were very complimentary when they saw the dive teams exiting the water with the collected trash. It would be great to have a flag/banner for the beach when I next organise a survey to raise awareness more. A person onshore with leaflets etc will be organised to raise even more awareness. Thank you to everyone that took part!
