Posts tagged ‘chumphon pinnacle’

UNDERWATER CLEAN UP

By sea-dog, 2 March, 2010, No Comment

We are very happy to announce that our first PROJECT AWARE UNDERWATER CLEAN UP was a huge success!

It was an early 7am start, but well worth it. Our first dive was at Koh Tao’s famous dive site Chumphon Pinnacle, where we were lucky enough to see a whaleshark. The gentle giant was around 5 meters long and we had a great 45 min dive with it passing us many times. The sighting will be added to the Project aware shark trust data base, which monitors shark and whaleshark numbers around the world.

We had 18 people for the secound clean-up dive and we would like to thank everyone for there help, I think a free shot in the bar tonight is well deserved. The clean-up was on sairee reef , close to the beach where all the boats moor up in the evening. We collected 5 large bags of debris ranging from electrical wire, cardboard boxes, a car tire, plastic sheeting and well over 100 plastic and glass bottles. So many thanks to everyone who was involved in doing there part in preserving our paradise island.

Here at DJL Dibing we are proud members of PROJECT AWARE and a GO-ECO operator, it’s our responsibility to do all we can to help the local enviroment. We will be holding monthly clean-up days and starting a new coral reef monitoring project in the coming weeks.

So please remember to do all you can to keep our oceans a beautiful place to dive for yourself and the divers of the future.

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Looking forward to 2010 at Davy Jones Locker

By sea-dog, 26 December, 2009, No Comment

With Christmas been and gone for another year and new year fast approaching, everybody here at Davy Jones locker is looking forward to what 2010 is gonna bring. With lots of new plans for the shop next year, one of the main things we want to do is be the lead examples of eco-conservation on Koh Tao island. We are also expecting lots of fresh faced Dive Master Trainees, and new customers we can introduce to the wonderful world of scuba diving on our beautiful island of Koh Tao.
We will be planning lots of beach clean ups, reef monitoring and many other ways to preserve our home on Koh Tao. With the sea being good to us and giving us lots of sharks at chumpon pinnacle and great viz at dive sites like twins and white rock, we hope the new year will be as good to us.
So stay tuned to the website for all the new info about the shop and our new Davy Jones Locker eco-projects and don’t forget to log into our new blog feature on the website to ask any of our staff here at the shop any questions about the local sites, dive courses or any other info you need about Koh Tao.

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