Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Newfound Harbor SPA
31 October, 2020
- Team Leader
- Kama Cannon
- Number of Participants
- 16
- Total Debris Collected
- 405 lbs (measured)
24.620147450596, -81.391286556756
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Newfound Harbor SPA
- Organization/Dive Centre
- DiveN2Life
- City
- Big Torch Key
- Country
- United States
- Date
- 31 October, 2020
- Survey Duration
- 60 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 24.620147450596
Longitude: -81.391286556756
- Weather Conditions
-
Raining and windy
- Survey Depth Range
- 10–25 feet
- Area Surveyed
- 2000 ft2
- Dominant Substrate
- rock
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Slight for waves 0.5 -1.25 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 1 |
| Buoys & Floats (plastic & Foamed) | 2 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 1 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Pipes & Rebar | 3 |
| Metal Fragments | 11 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 1 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Lumber (processed Or Cut/milled Wood) | 1 |
| Wood Fragments | 16 |
| Fishing: Traps & Pots | 6 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 12 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bricks, Cinderblocks & Chunks Of Cement | 2 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| channel marker with nav light | 1 |
| tolling motor | 1 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Other Fish | |
| Species or Common Name | Lion Fish (we ate him) |
| Number Entangled | 1 |
| Type of Debris | derelict trap |
| Crustaceans | |
| Species or Common Name | Stone Crab |
| Number Entangled | 1 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | derelict trap |
Additional Information
As usual, it is a sea of endless line from abandoned traps. We have been removing these lines and parts of derelict traps since Hurricane Irma in 2017.
We found a channel marker with a glass navigational light. That was a first for us!
lines
traps
wooden fragments
Comments and Feedback
Can you please send us new Project Aware Dive Against Debris stickers for the kids. Thanks!
