Abu Dabab
4 April, 2019
- Team Leader
- Geert Peeraer
- Number of Participants
- 26
- Total Debris Collected
- 7.1 kgs (measured)
25.257963031839, 34.862436086375
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Abu Dabab
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Diveadventures S-9203
- City
- Mechelen
- Country
- Belgium
- Date
- 4 April, 2019
- Survey Duration
- 780 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 25.257963031839
Longitude: 34.862436086375
- Weather Conditions
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Sunny, cloudu, chilly, cold wind
- Survey Depth Range
- 5–25 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 1000 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- coral
- Ecosystem
- coral reef
- 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) | 3 |
| Fishing: Line | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 7 |
| Rope (plastic/nylon) | 1 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cups & Plates-tableware/dishes (glass & Ceramic) | 3 |
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 2 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 1 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Batteries: AA, AAA, C & D, 6V, 9V, Etc. | 3 |
| Cups & Plates-tableware/dishes (metal) | 3 |
| SCUBA Weights | 3 |
| Metal Fragments | 1 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Computer Equipment & Other Electronic Devices | 1 |
Additional Information
The event contributing to pollution is probably mostly day dive boats as we found most debris on sites with day boats.
A camera. which we did have on the picture as we gave it back to the diver on another boat. The diver just lost it an hour before so he was happy!
Plastic Bags: seen as Jelly Fish by a lot of animals
Plastic Ropes: always dangerous, also for divers
Plastic Bottles: so dirtyon the sea bed
Comments and Feedback
Most reefs visited on our liveaboard are quite clean in the deep south. We often found debris exactly below where the boats are moored. It was fun to organize this for the entire group of divers. i brought the 2 bags to collect the debris and the awareness amongst divers is quite interesting to see. Suggestion is to enable "liveaboard dive against debris" where you can report on a whole tour of dive sites.
We actually collected this debris on our latest liveaboard during 20 dives on different sites going deep south in the red sea. I've put it on Abu Dabab as we found several items there, and we have dived here 3 times.
