An entire report has been written by Meaghan Sore.
Any investigation, clean-up and dive activity on and around Clipperton island must be done under France permission. This is a protected area. We had the permit ( HC/1485/CAB ) to do that, hoping a huge clean-up may be done soon.
As the island is so remote, only ocean current can bring the plastic and other trashes.
Any clean-up will be due to be re-do after any tornado or cyclone.
Illegal shark fishing
On this extremely remote atoll, six transects of 5 meters width by 30 meters long have been done.
On such small surface, not less than 7116 pieces of plastic have been removed, mostly bottle caps among those which could be identified.
During one dive, a rolled net was found at a depth of 45 feet. All divers came together to remove the net efficiently, lifting it to the surface using our surface marker buoys. Based on the way the net was rolled and bound, it appeared that the net was either dumped or accidentally dropped overboard. Once onboard the boat, the group banded together to search the net for marine life that had been using the net’s crevices for shelter, and returned to them to the sea. Some of the animals found, were juvenile moray eels, brittle stars, nudibranchs, and a variety of crustaceans, just to name a few. The net measured 56 feet by 9 feet, and was added to the marine debris to be taken to shore for recycling and repurposing.
This is only the part we could manage to bring back ashore on a liveaboard ship.
Collect done under France Government permit number: HC/1485/CAB
We did a sampling beach clean-up also,
Perfect: water temperature around 29ºC
10 396 feet, about 3,16 kilometers
Height of them attached to long lines
18 (stainless steel)
43 (stainless steel)
Long lines
Buoys
Hooks for shark
Fasteners for long line
Clipperton expedition: great migration 2
Meaghan Sorce
18
10.00
60
25.00
5.00
measured
1000.00
On
kilograms
I have debris data to report
Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Fishing net
crabs
Released Unharmed
25
m2
meters
coral reef
France
State\Province
Clipperton island, Île de la Passion
City
None
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