Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Cais dos Pescadores
10 September, 2021
- Team Leader
- Carolina Gonçalves & Teresa Vale
- Number of Participants
- 6
- Total Debris Collected
- 200 kgs (estimated)
38.697195483714, -9.4183892011642
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Cais dos Pescadores
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Associação Juvenil Claro/ Clube Naval de Cascais
- City
- Cascais
- Country
- Portugal
- Date
- 10 September, 2021
- Survey Duration
- 50 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 38.697195483714
Longitude: -9.4183892011642
- Weather Conditions
- Survey Depth Range
- 1–5 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 500 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- silt
- Ecosystem
- other
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 2 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 2 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Tires/tyres | 4 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Wood Fragments | 2 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Shopping Carts | 4 |
| Scooter | 2 |
| Cargo Cart | 1 |
| Fishing: traps & pots (plastic) | 2 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Other Animals | |
| Species or Common Name | Starfish; sea urchins; anemones |
| Number Entangled | 20 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | Tires and traps |
Additional Information
People (mostly teenagers) that go to the fisherman's pier at night to drink and hangout and start throwing on purpose or accidentally scooters and shopping carts with which they were playing with (there is an Auchan supermarket near that location).
Shopping carts
Shopping carts
Tires
Fishing traps
Comments and Feedback
We assume the shopping carts and the scooters came from people (specially teens) that go drink and hangout at night at the pier because we also found a lot of beer bottles (broken and not broken) on the pier itself and because of some of the fisherman's own reports...
