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ADS541 - Middle Reef

8 June, 2020

Team Leader
Ana Mestek
Number of Participants
2
Total Debris Collected
2 kgs (estimated)

-8.1417061860902, 114.65579459678

Survey Information

Location Name
ADS541 - Middle Reef
Organization/Dive Centre
Easy Divers Bali
City
Pemuteran
Country
Indonesia
Date
8 June, 2020
Survey Duration
20 Minutes
GPS Coordinates
Latitude: -8.1417061860902
Longitude: 114.65579459678
Weather Conditions
Surprisingly quite a lot of rain, big long waves
Survey Depth Range
2–4 meters
Area Surveyed
60 m2
Dominant Substrate
sand
Ecosystem
seagrass
Wave Conditions
Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
plastic materials collected
Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) 23
Bags: Trash (plastic) 2
Balloons 1
Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) 3
Caps & Lids (plastic) 1
Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar 1
Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets 1
Mesh Bags: Fruit/vegetable/shellfish 1
Straws, Stirrers 2
Tobacco Packaging & Wrappers 1
Rope (plastic/nylon) 1
metal materials collected
Batteries: AA, AAA, C & D, 6V, 9V, Etc. 1
Wrappers (foil/metal) 14
cloth materials collected
Rope And String (cloth) 1
mixed materials collected
Toys 1
other materials collected
Big hard plastic sheet 1
Entangled Animals
Other Animals
Species or Common Name Sea urchin
Number Entangled 1
Status released unharmed
Type of Debris plastic fragments, rope
Comments removed the rope, plastic fragments were too difficult to remove

Long waves

Plastic toy (a whistle?)

Plastic bags

Food wrappers

Diapers


Did a longer dive, cleanup was done at the end.

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