Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Sirens
10 December, 2022
- Team Leader
- Susannah Williams
- Number of Participants
- 2
- Total Debris Collected
- 10 kgs (estimated)
35.949618, 14.404982
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Sirens
- Organization/Dive Centre
- NDS Malta
- Country
- Malta
- Date
- 10 December, 2022
- Survey Duration
- 52 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 35.949618
Longitude: 14.404982
- Weather Conditions
-
Storm and strong winds
- Survey Depth Range
- 2–9 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 5922.67 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) | 1 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 5 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 4 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 7 |
| Fishing: Line | 1 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 8 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 9 |
| Strapping Bands (plastic) | 4 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 18 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 2 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 15 |
| Pipes & Rebar | 2 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 3 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Rubber Fragments | 2 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cloth Fragments | 7 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 2 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| 1kg of electric cable | 1 |
Additional Information
A storm that lasted 4 days with strong winds
A rowing boat but it was too large to remove
Plastic bottles
Mental cans
Food wrappers
Comments and Feedback
This site is in a bay, which means debris is often washed up here. We found a lot of debris in the the water we couldn't remove due to the size (scaffolding, a bar, a fence) so we will need to investigate ways to remove these items.
