Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Garður
25 April, 2020
- Team Leader
- Fríða Líf Vignisdóttir
- Number of Participants
- 8
- Total Debris Collected
- 6 kgs (estimated)
64.066345345473, -22.634255801359
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Garður
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Dive.is
- City
- Reykjavík
- Country
- Iceland
- Date
- 25 April, 2020
- Survey Duration
- 60 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 64.066345345473
Longitude: -22.634255801359
- Weather Conditions
-
Mostly sunny, little bit of wind.
- Survey Depth Range
- 1–5 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 7622.68 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- kelp
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 11 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 11 |
| Buoys & Floats (plastic & Foamed) | 5 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 22 |
| Cotton Bud Sticks | 25 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 4 |
| Fishing: Line | 40 |
| Gloves (latex) | 7 |
| Straws, Stirrers | 5 |
| Plastic Fragments | 118 |
| Cigarette Filters | 8 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Glass & Ceramic Fragments | 6 |
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 11 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Metal Fragments | 60 |
| rubber materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Tires/tyres | 1 |
| Rubber Fragments | 10 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Cloth Fragments | 16 |
| paper materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags (paper) | 2 |
| Cardboard: Packaging & Cartons | 2 |
| Paper, Cardboard Fragments | 6 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Wet wipes | 21 |
Additional Information
The tides in Iceland seem to lead that way plus there is a big factory there that might be contributing to debris.
A hood of a car (to big to pick up but will be back later with lift bags)
Fishing lines
Plastic Containers
Cotton buds
Comments and Feedback
We plan on going back there with a bigger team and then try our best to remove that car hood. Also we wanna survey this place after a year again to hopefully see some less trash there.
