Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Grove beach, Kovalam, Trivandrum
23 February, 2025
- Team Leader
- Krishna Dev I
- Number of Participants
- 4
- Total Debris Collected
- 10 kgs (estimated)
8.395965, 76.972741
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Grove beach, Kovalam, Trivandrum
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Oceanaut Adventures
- City
- Trivandrum
- Country
- India
- Date
- 23 February, 2025
- Survey Duration
- 50 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 8.395965
Longitude: 76.972741
- Weather Conditions
-
Sunny, Humid, 30 degree celsius
- Survey Depth Range
- 3–10 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 100 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- sand
- Ecosystem
- rocky reef
- Wave Conditions
- Smooth (wavelets) for waves 0.1 - 0.5 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| plastic materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags-grocery/retail (plastic) | 2 |
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 4 |
| Bait Containers, Packaging | 3 |
| Balls | 1 |
| Caps & Lids (plastic) | 1 |
| Cotton Bud Sticks | 5 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 2 |
| Diapers/nappies | 1 |
| Fishing: Line | 3 |
| Fishing: Lures, Rods/poles | 3 |
| Fishing: Nets & Pieces Of Nets | 2 |
| SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins | 1 |
| Plastic Fragments | 10 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Light Globes/bulbs/tubes | 2 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Pipes & Rebar | 1 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 1 |
| Fishing: Traps & Pots | 3 |
| Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks | 3 |
| wood materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Lumber (processed Or Cut/milled Wood) | 2 |
| cloth materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Bags (burlap) | 2 |
| Bags (cloth) | 2 |
| Rope And String (cloth) | 9 |
| Cloth Fragments | 20 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Clothing | 6 |
| other materials collected | |
|---|---|
| shoes | 3 |
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Marine Mammals | |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Other Fish | |
| Species or Common Name | Puffer fish |
| Number Entangled | 1 |
| Status | released unharmed |
| Type of Debris | puffer fish |
| Comments | one puffer fish was entangles in a fishing net. it was released unharmed |
Additional Information
clothe materiels
sewer waste
plastic
