Playa Piskado, Curacao
29 May, 2021
- Team Leader
- Laura van Loon
- Number of Participants
- 4
- Total Debris Collected
- 15 kgs (measured)
12.369529911511, -69.154847675771
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Playa Piskado, Curacao
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Dive with Laura
- City
- Willemstad
- Country
- Netherlands Antilles
- Date
- 29 May, 2021
- Survey Duration
- 70 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 12.369529911511
Longitude: -69.154847675771
- Weather Conditions
-
Good
- Survey Depth Range
- 1–16 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 14050.3 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bait Containers, Packaging | 2 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 7 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 2 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 2 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 1 |
| Fishing: Line | 18 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 2 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 9 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 1 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 2 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 1 |
| Straws, Stirrers | 2 |
| Plastic Fragments | 8 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 2 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cups & Plates-tableware/dishes (glass & Ceramic) | 2 |
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 3 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 5 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) | 4 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 1 |
| Forks, Knives, Spoons (cutlery) | 9 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 5 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 1 |
| Metal Fragments | 3 |
| Fishing: Traps & Pots | 1 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rubber Bands | 1 |
| Tires/tyres | 1 |
| Rubber Fragments | 6 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 4 |
| Towels/rags | 2 |
| Cloth Fragments | 1 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Paper-books, Newspaper & Magazines, Etc. | 3 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 2 |
| Computer Equipment & Other Electronic Devices | 1 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Sea Turtle | |
| Species or Common Name | Green Sea Turtle |
| Number Entangled | 1 |
| Status | injured |
| Type of Debris | Fish hook |
| Comments | Sea Turtle Conservation Curacao was updated about the hook in a turtles chest and sent out a rescue party next day, turtle was already unburdened from the hook. |
Additional Information
It is a fishing bay. Lots of turtles made it their home since fish parts get tossed in the water. The turtles attract tourists, who in their turn pollute the bay with food and snack wrappers they bring along.
Boat engine fuel/speed board display
Fishing line, nets and hooks: will literally take 700 years to decompose and get tossed daily without any care for the damage done.
single use plastic cups and bottles: not deliberately, but people pretend the wind doesn't move anything and pretend trash isn't theirs as fast as it touches the ground.
discarded fishing traps: too big and heavy to move, even with a lift bag, and litter the ocean floors' bay entirely if no regulations are put in place.
Comments and Feedback
Maybe the map showing the search area calculation can be simplified. Also I can only seem to log this data from a computer and can't log in from a mobile device.
Everybody did so great! I'm grateful fro their help and we have 2 new Dive Against Debris divers!! Yay!
