Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Houtbay Harbour - Western Cape - South Africa
16 September, 2011
- Team Leader
- Carel van der Colff/Paul Papenfus
- Number of Participants
- 66
- Total Debris Collected
- kgs (estimated)
-37.21633, 18.457031
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Houtbay Harbour - Western Cape - South Africa
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Old Mutual Sub Aqua Club
- City
- Cape Town
- Country
- South Africa
- Date
- 16 September, 2011
- Survey Duration
- 120 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: -37.21633
Longitude: 18.457031
- Weather Conditions
-
Calm and sunny
- Survey Depth Range
- 0–4 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 80 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- silt
- Ecosystem
- HArbour area, mainly sand/silt and small grasses and seawead
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 81 |
| Balls | 2 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 42 |
| Bottles: Bleach/cleaner Bottles | 1 |
| Buoys & Floats (plastic & Foamed) | 5 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 20 |
| Cigarette Lighters | 1 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 20 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 17 |
| Fishing: Line | 34 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 2 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 2 |
| Pipes (plastic-PVC) | 22 |
| Sheeting: Tarpaulin, Plastic Sheets, Palette Wrap | 21 |
| Straws, Stirrers | 2 |
| Tobacco Packaging & Wrappers | 4 |
| Cigarette Filters | 9 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 19 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Fluorescent Light Tubes | 2 |
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 8 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 87 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 47 |
| Cars & Car Parts | 27 |
| Gas Bottles/cylinder, Drums-more Than 4 Liters | 1 |
| Pipes & Rebar | 15 |
| Batteries: Car Or Boat | 3 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Condoms | 2 |
| Tires/tyres | 5 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags (cloth) | 15 |
| Rope And String (cloth) | 19 |
| Cloth Fragments | 9 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags (paper) | 9 |
| Cardboard: Packaging & Cartons | 2 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 5 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc | 2 |
| Toys | 2 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cell phones | 4 |
| hose pipe pieces | 3 |
| plastic strrapping bands | 3 |
| pumps(pool) | 2 |
| Fish finder | 1 |
| Fishing reels | 2 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Other Animals | |
| Comments | NOt entangled animals as such as snails and crabs and soe gobys were in/on plasti pipes. Aslo octopus in one pump. |
Additional Information
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