Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Cenote Yax Chen
13 February, 2020
- Team Leader
- Victoria Elizabeth Cole
- Number of Participants
- 6
- Total Debris Collected
- 10 kgs (estimated)
20.131362, -87.462715
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Cenote Yax Chen
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Infinity 2 diving
- City
- Tulum
- Country
- Mexico
- Date
- 13 February, 2020
- Survey Duration
- 63 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 20.131362
Longitude: -87.462715
- Weather Conditions
-
Fine
- Survey Depth Range
- 2–6.5 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 7000 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- rock
- Ecosystem
- mangroves
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cigarette Lighters | 1 |
| Fishing: Line | 6 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 1 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 1 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Forks, Knives, Spoons (cutlery) | 2 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 1 |
| Metal Fragments | 1 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 4 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 2 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Paper, Cardboard Fragments | 1 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 1 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Phone case arm band, plastic | 1 |
| Broken oar, plastic | 1 |
| 50 pesos note, plastic | 1 |
Additional Information
No
Large piece of fencing
Large piece of chicken wire fence. Dangerous fro swimmers, potentially toxic breakdown
Fishing line,. Entanglement risk
Plastic oars. Potencial toxic leaching from plastic decay
