Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Porter's Patch
5 June, 2020
- Team Leader
- Zafirah
- Number of Participants
- 8
- Total Debris Collected
- 36 kgs (measured)
4.89275, 114.4046
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Porter's Patch
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Poni Divers
- Country
- Brunei
- Date
- 5 June, 2020
- Survey Duration
- 36 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 4.89275
Longitude: 114.4046
- Weather Conditions
-
Calm
- Survey Depth Range
- 19.6–20.5 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 120 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- coral
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 1 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 3 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Sea Turtle | |
| Species or Common Name | Green turtle |
| Number Entangled | 1 |
| Status | dead |
| Type of Debris | Sea turtle |
| Sharks & Rays | |
| Species or Common Name | Nurse sharks |
| Number Entangled | 3 |
| Status | dead |
| Type of Debris | Sharks |
| Other Fish | |
| Species or Common Name | Bamboo shark |
| Number Entangled | 1 |
| Status | dead |
| Type of Debris | Shark |
Additional Information
Fishing activities. Fishing nets found do not have floaters & sinkers and are not made of monofilament but nylon.
Fishing net
Fishing line
Fishing lures
Comments and Feedback
Suggestion: fishing nets to be counted differently not into fragments of monofilament for example. Allow more than 1 species of marine animals for recording.
Initiatives by members of the public (volunteers), facilitated by Poni Green, Poni Divers and supported by Department of Fisheries, Brunei Darussalam. Dead sea turtle carcass retrieved and handed over to the Brunei Museums Natural History section for the preservation of its carapace.
