Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Clean-Up DIve in Panormos Bay
6 May, 2021
- Team Leader
- kostas danis
- Number of Participants
- 3
- Total Debris Collected
- 40 kgs (estimated)
39.112210273585, 23.662341148205
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Clean-Up DIve in Panormos Bay
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Skopelos Dive Center
- City
- Skopelos
- Country
- Greece
- Date
- 6 May, 2021
- Survey Duration
- 55 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 39.112210273585
Longitude: 23.662341148205
- Weather Conditions
- Survey Depth Range
- 5–18 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 200 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- sandy (pebbles) seafloor with micro flora & fauna
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 2 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 30 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 6 |
| Fishing: Line | 1 |
| Foam Insulation & Packaging | 2 |
| Gloves (latex) | 1 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 4 |
| Sheeting: Tarpaulin, Plastic Sheets, Palette Wrap | 1 |
| Straws, Stirrers | 2 |
| Tobacco Packaging & Wrappers | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 7 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 5 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 18 |
| Batteries: Car Or Boat | 1 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Tires/tyres | 2 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags (burlap) | 2 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 3 |
Additional Information
Beverage plastic bottles
Beverage aluminium cans
tyres
Comments and Feedback
This bay was declared as archaeological protected area since 2018, so it wasn't allowed to dive even for clean-up actions unless you asked for a special permission and you were escorted by archaeologists. This was one of the many reasons that the underwater area is heavily contaminated by macro and micro plastic waste accumulated all those years. For this reason we intend to organize and conduct several clean-ups over the following months, each time focusing on an underwater part of this large bay.
