Dive Against Debris Data Submission
DROC - La Puntilla
19 May, 2022
- Team Leader
- Ana
- Number of Participants
- 2
- Total Debris Collected
- 3 kgs (estimated)
19.761028, -70.520556
Survey Information
- Location Name
- DROC - La Puntilla
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Dive Cabarete
- City
- Sosua
- Country
- Dominican Republic
- Date
- 19 May, 2022
- Survey Duration
- 51 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 19.761028
Longitude: -70.520556
- Weather Conditions
-
Not important, but we had a big rain 2 days ago.
- Survey Depth Range
- 8–25 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 250 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- seagrass
- Ecosystem
- coral 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) | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) | 14 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 1 |
| Cigar Tips | 1 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 7 |
| Fishing: Line | 1 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 32 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 2 |
| Plastic Fragments | 15 |
| Cigarette Filters | 11 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 28 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 1 |
| Wrappers (foil/metal) | 1 |
| Metal Fragments | 12 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rubber Bands | 4 |
| Rubber Fragments | 4 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rope And String (cloth) | 1 |
| Cloth Fragments | 2 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Paper, Cardboard Fragments | 12 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 1 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| fake finger nail | 1 |
| Femenine Pad | 3 |
| A Wig | 1 |
| Zipties | 2 |
| Fiberglass fragment | 1 |
| 1996 5 pesos Dominican note | 1 |
| Sandpaper | 2 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Other Fish | |
| Species or Common Name | CARDINAL FISH |
| Number Entangled | 2 |
| Status | dead |
| Type of Debris | wrapped in cloth |
| Crustaceans | |
| Species or Common Name | Crabs |
| Number Entangled | 6 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | Cans |
| Other Animals | |
| Species or Common Name | octopus |
| Number Entangled | 4 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | Cans |
| Comments | Impossible to see them during the dives, they come out until we are in lad but we save them in a bucket of seawater and then bring them back to the ocean. |
