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ADS126 - Chilpo Beach Northern Rocky outcrop

31 August, 2019

Team Leader
William Henderson
Number of Participants
1
Total Debris Collected
5 kgs (estimated)

36.136072, 129.398292

Survey Information

Location Name
ADS126 - Chilpo Beach Northern Rocky outcrop
Organization/Dive Centre
Dive Against Debris Korea (Daegu)
City
Pohang
Country
South Korea
Date
31 August, 2019
Survey Duration
55 Minutes
GPS Coordinates
Latitude: 36.136072
Longitude: 129.398292
Weather Conditions
Calm.
Survey Depth Range
1–6 meters
Area Surveyed
1483.7 m2
Dominant Substrate
sand
Ecosystem
rocky reef
Wave Conditions
Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
plastic materials collected
Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) 3
Balls 1
Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) 1
Buoys & Floats (plastic & Foamed) 7
Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) 1
Fishing: Line 9
Food Wrappers (plastic) 8
Gloves (latex) 3
Pipes (plastic-PVC) 1
Plastic Fragments 86
Rope (plastic/nylon) 14
metal materials collected
Beverage Cans (aluminium) 3
Caps & Lids (metal) 1
Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire 2
Metal Fragments 1
rubber materials collected
Rubber Fragments 1
wood materials collected
Wood Fragments 1
cloth materials collected
Bags (burlap) 1
Gloves (cloth) 3
Rope And String (cloth) 3
Cloth Fragments 9
other materials collected
plastic gloves ( food service) 5

The summer beach season is mostly over, and as expected alot of the debris I am finding is newer and more household/end user related

plastic gloves (food service type)

various plastic packaging


This was the first of 2 dives that day. On this dive I more or less stayed in the usual area and removed various light/easily bagged debris. There was a good deal of lose plastic all around

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