Little Devil's Cove
14 September, 2019
- Team Leader
- Matt Jacobs
- Number of Participants
- 40
- Total Debris Collected
- 800 lbs (estimated)
30.4408736, -97.9490818
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Little Devil's Cove
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Dive World Austin
- City
- Austin
- Country
- United States
- Date
- 14 September, 2019
- Survey Duration
- 60 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 30.4408736
Longitude: -97.9490818
- Weather Conditions
-
Calm
- Survey Depth Range
- 25–60 feet
- Area Surveyed
- 81975 ft2
- Dominant Substrate
- silt
- Ecosystem
- Lake
- Wave Conditions
- Calm (glassy to rippled) for waves 0 – 0.1 meter high
Survey Photos
Debris Items Collected
| Entangled Animals | |
|---|---|
| Marine Mammals | |
| Species or Common Name | None |
| Number Entangled | -1 |
| Type of Debris | None |
Additional Information
Little Devil's Cove provides a sheltered area for boaters to tie up/anchor and swim. It's typical for these boaters to drop their bottles, cans, and solo cups in the water and let them sink rather than take their garbage with them. I do not have exact counts of each item (40 divers plus we're new at this), but we had an estimated 800 pounds of trash that we removed from this cove as part of the Lake Travis Underwater Cleanup (https://laketraviscleanup.org/). Dive World Austin would like to adopt this cove; our monthly totals will give us a better idea of ratio of cans, bottles, and cups.
Abandoned boat anchors - they get caught in stumps at the bottom and the boaters cut the line. We surface them with lift bags.
Bottles
Cans
Solo cups
Comments and Feedback
Due to the huge amount of trash collected, I can't provide exact counts of bottles, cans, and cups. They're split fairly evenly among the three.
