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January
6th, 2011
Crystal Dive’s Own Artificial Reef Gets a Workout!
With
travelers descending on Koh Tao in huge numbers, following the New
Years Eve parties on Koh Phangan and Koh Samui, Crystal Dive and
Eco Koh Tao teamed up to ensure the impact of all these new divers
on our reefs is limited.
To
this end Crystal Dive’s strategic Eco partner Eco Koh Tao
has developed our own in-house artificial reef using non-polluting
waste material to construct a number of structures underwater just
offshore from the dive centre.
With boats full of divers completing their first few ocean dives,
Junkyard presents an excellent location to fine tune buoyancy skills
and experience the underwater world. It exposes new divers to the
need for artificial reefs and the benefits they can play in alleviating
the intense pressure on natural reefs experienced by a reef system
as small and as heavily dived as Koh Tao.
The
site is home to a wide array of marine organisms. Many interesting
and some totally new to Koh Tao! The has received a lot of praise
from new and experienced divers alike and is an example of diver
training with a conservation ethic not often seen on Koh Tao.
For more images of Junkyard Reef, check out Eco Koh Tao at Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=178556&id=297553941945
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