Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Back Beach
24 July, 2021
- Team Leader
- Matt Everett
- Number of Participants
- 9
- Total Debris Collected
- 72.3 lbs (measured)
42.662666259087, -70.623396358469
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Back Beach
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Undersea Divers
- City
- Rockport
- Country
- United States
- Date
- 24 July, 2021
- Survey Duration
- 45 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 42.662666259087
Longitude: -70.623396358469
- Weather Conditions
-
Mostly overcast, a day or two of light rain but nothing major. Sunny on the day the survey was conducted.
- Survey Depth Range
- 3–27 feet
- Area Surveyed
- 61356 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- rock
- Ecosystem
- rocky reef
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 9 |
| Balls | 1 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 3 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 3 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 1 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 1 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 1 |
| Gloves (latex) | 2 |
| Sheeting: Tarpaulin, Plastic Sheets, Palette Wrap | 2 |
| Straws, Stirrers | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 21 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cups & Plates-tableware/dishes (glass & Ceramic) | 1 |
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 2 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 7 |
| Caps & Lids (metal) | 4 |
| Pull Tabs-beverages | 2 |
| Metal Fragments | 15 |
| Fishing: Traps & Pots | 34 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rubber Bands | 1 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Lumber (processed Or Cut/milled Wood) | 1 |
| Wood Fragments | 1 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 17 |
| Towels/rags | 2 |
Additional Information
There are lots of lobster traps in the surrounding area. We found several that were broken down and falling apart due to being abandoned which caused us to find high numbers of metal materials and fragments.
Pair of underwear inside a derelict lobster trap
Lobster traps and fragments from lobster traps: vast majority of trash collected fell under these categories
Rope: lots of rope collected all over the dive area, large bundles of rope woven into lobster traps or around rocks could cause entanglement hazards for divers and animals
Plastic bags and bag fragments: a significant amount of bags and bag fragments were collected from all different depths and sides of the dive site
