Dive Against Debris Data Submission
The Aquarium
4 March, 2020
- Team Leader
- Imogen Davies
- Number of Participants
- 3
- Total Debris Collected
- 6 kgs (measured)
2.789288, 104.204615
Survey Information
- Location Name
- The Aquarium
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Reef tribes
- City
- Pahang
- Country
- Malaysia
- Date
- 4 March, 2020
- Survey Duration
- 45 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 2.789288
Longitude: 104.204615
- Weather Conditions
-
Cloudy
- Survey Depth Range
- 3–10 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 7705.53 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- coral
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Slight for waves 0.5 -1.25 meter high
Debris Items Collected
plastic materials collected | |
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Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 3 |
Bags: Trash (plastic) | 1 |
Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 1 |
Bottles: Bleach/cleaner Bottles | 1 |
Bottles: Oil/lube | 1 |
Buoys & Floats (plastic & Foamed) | 2 |
Caps & Lids (plastic) | 14 |
Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 4 |
Fishing: Line | 9 |
Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 1 |
Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 10 |
Food Wrappers (plastic) | 2 |
Plastic Fragments | 16 |
Rope (plastic/nylon) | 6 |
glass materials collected | |
---|---|
Beverage Bottles (glass) | 2 |
metal materials collected | |
---|---|
Batteries: AA, AAA, C & D, 6V, 9V, Etc. | 1 |
Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 2 |
cloth materials collected | |
---|---|
Rope And String (cloth) | 2 |
Towels/rags | 1 |
Cloth Fragments | 4 |
mixed materials collected | |
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Clothing | 1 |
Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 1 |
Entangled Animals | |
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Other Animals | |
Species or Common Name | Coral |
Number Entangled | 1 |
Status | released unharmed |
Type of Debris | Fishing line |
Comments | Many fishing lines and nets were entangled around coral colonies |
Additional Information
Monsoon
Fishing weight
Fishing lines
Fishing nets
Bottles
Comments and Feedback
We are just coming out if the monsoon season
Site is just off from the beach so gets a lot of debris dumped through wave action