Dive Against Debris Data Submission
Yellowstone Reef
20 May, 2021
- Team Leader
- Mohammed Leddawi
- Number of Participants
- 5
- Total Debris Collected
- 17.4 kgs (measured)
29.41453, 34.97425
Survey Information
- Location Name
- Yellowstone Reef
- Organization/Dive Centre
- Deep Blue Dive Center
- City
- Aqaba
- Country
- Jordan
- Date
- 20 May, 2021
- Survey Duration
- 30 Minutes
- GPS Coordinates
- Latitude: 29.41453
Longitude: 34.97425
- Weather Conditions
-
windy
- Survey Depth Range
- 4–23 meters
- Area Surveyed
- 38 m2
- Dominant Substrate
- seagrass
- Ecosystem
- coral 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) | 18 |
| Bags: Trash (plastic) | 9 |
| Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) | 16 |
| Containers: Fast Food, Lunch Boxes & Similar | 15 |
| Cups, Plates, Forks, Knives, Spoons (plastic) | 39 |
| Food Wrappers (plastic) | 7 |
| Plastic Fragments | 9 |
| glass materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Bottles (glass) | 12 |
| metal materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Beverage Cans (aluminium) | 39 |
| Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire | 2 |
| mixed materials collected | |
|---|---|
| Toys | 1 |
Additional Information
People eating at the beach and not properly disposing of their waste. The high winds carry the items into the sea. The wire mesh was 2 illegal fishing traps that we opened up. The fish were freed and the traps properly disposed of.
