Action Highlights

Now that the weather has started to shift on the Andaman Sea side of Thailand, Ocean Divers are getting back into our regular beach cleanups. The beaches are quite clean during the high season due to the off shore wind, but as the Southeast Monsoon weather cycle begins the wind and waves shift. This in turn brings the floating marine debris onto our beaches.

• Throughout the 720 hours in April, Camel Dive Club conducted:
• An Earth Day Clean Up
• Began to teach AWARE Shark Conservation Specialties
• Pledged our ongoing support for the Sharks in Peril campaign
• Held a fundraising quiz in the Camel bar

Thanks to all our guests and staff for making the month such a success and well done The Red Team for becoming the highest scoring shark experts in a total of 8 teams.  Clever clogs in the room were awarded prizes from the Tandoori restaurant, the Camel bar, Vanilla and the T

Once again here at Coral Grand Divers the love for our planet brought us all together to tackle one of the biggest issues divers encounter almost on a daily basis: Marine Debries.

We decided that to take care of this issue properly we would start by the beach and then follow up this initiative with a reef clean up.

On Earth Day, April 22, 2012 a great group of divers went offshore and cleaned the ledges off Jupiter, Florida. About 30 pounds of debris was gathered up by 14 divers in less than an hour and a half underwater. Most of the debris was made up of fishing line, which weighs very little and takes time and care to remove off the reef. Fishing line also accounts for some of the most harm to marine life. The day began with a Project Aware presentation on marine debris, the group had lunch and then headed offshore for a 2 tank dive.