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El Puertito - South Tenerife with Paradise Divers

29 November, 2015

Team Leader
Harrison Stopforth
Number of Participants
3
Total Debris Collected
10 kgs (estimated)

28.113306, -16.768404

Survey Information

Location Name
El Puertito - South Tenerife with Paradise Divers
Organization/Dive Centre
Paradise Divers - Tenerife
City
Callao Salvaje
Country
Spain
Date
29 November, 2015
Survey Duration
55 Minutes
GPS Coordinates
Latitude: 28.113306
Longitude: -16.768404
Weather Conditions
Calm, Hot and Cloudy
Survey Depth Range
2–10 meters
Area Surveyed
1363 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) 1
Beverage Bottles: Less Than 2 Litres (plastic) 5
Fishing: Line 2
Pipes (plastic-PVC) 2
SCUBA & Snorkel Gear-masks, Snorkels, Fins 1
Plastic Fragments 11
Rope (plastic/nylon) 2
glass materials collected
Beverage Bottles (glass) 5
metal materials collected
Cans: Food/juice, Other (tin) 1
Caps & Lids (metal) 1
Wire, Wire Mesh & Barbed Wire 3
Fishing: Sinkers, Lures, Hooks 2
rubber materials collected
Tires/tyres 3
cloth materials collected
Towels/rags 2
mixed materials collected
Bricks, Cinderblocks & Chunks Of Cement 2
Shoes-flip Flops, Sandals, Tennis, Etc 1
other materials collected
Meat Bones 5

Various Parties on the beach and lots of day boats stopping for lunch

Meat Bones

Fishing hooks

Rope

Fishing Lines


This is a site with 4 resident turtles therefore it is important to keep this site clean of bags, fishing lines and plastic.

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