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ADS126 - Chilpo Beach Northern Rocky outcrop

22 July, 2017

Team Leader
William Henderson
Number of Participants
1
Total Debris Collected
14 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
22 July, 2017
Survey Duration
53 Minutes
GPS Coordinates
Latitude: 36.136072
Longitude: 129.398292
Weather Conditions
Occasional summertime thunderstorms. Rain the night before. Sky was foggy and very overcast during the dive.
Survey Depth Range
1–6 meters
Area Surveyed
50 m2
Dominant Substrate
rock
Ecosystem
rocky reef
Wave Conditions
Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
plastic materials collected
Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) 6
Balls 1
Beverage Bottles: 2 Litres Or More (plastic) 1
Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) 2
Caps & Lids (plastic) 4
Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) 1
Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles 1
Food Wrappers (plastic) 3
Gloves (latex) 3
Pipes (plastic-PVC) 1
Plastic Fragments 73
Strapping Bands (plastic) 10
Rope (plastic/nylon) 1
metal materials collected
Beverage Cans (aluminium) 1
Caps & Lids (metal) 5
Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire 1
Wrappers (foil/metal) 2
Metal Fragments 24
Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks 1
rubber materials collected
Gloves (rubber) 2
cloth materials collected
Gloves (cloth) 5
Rope And String (cloth) 4
Towels/rags 1
Cloth Fragments 19
paper materials collected
Paper, Cardboard Fragments 2
mixed materials collected
Clothing 2
other materials collected
Portable Light 1

Golf Ball. I have seen this same ball in the past wedged down between 2 rocky. I finally pried it free~

I dont know what they are really. Cloth white bag with some sort of plastic pice that seems to be electrical in nature

various small pieces of plastic


I did a bit of everything today. Some time in the concentrated small debris area ( youtube video of that on my June report), some time cutting that massive chunk of tangled nets free, and then a good deal of time making my way through and around the rocks farther northward collecting misc. this or that along the way. Despite the fog and overcast morning skies, visibility was the best I have seen all season.

The final picture is a sample of the many pieces of plastic strips I have been collecting last month and also today. They are new to the area. In June I collected 114 of these same strips. Today only 21. I have been reporting those numbers both as plastic AND metal as each one has a small metal bar on one end that is opened on one side allowing it to be removed. I'm not sure if I should be reporting them as both metal AND plastic however.

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