Sunshine instructors Dave Scanlan, Sarah Van Name and DMT Jacabo Sanchez  attended Save Koh Tao's mooring buoy workshop on the 16th of February 2012. The workshop was an educational experience that can help us to correctly install and repair mooring and marker buoys around Koh Tao. Chad Scott, of Save Koh Tao, led the workshop.

Three of our DMT's, led by instructors Sarah Van Name and Scott Butz, conducted a monitoring project of our adopted nursery off of Sairee Beach on Koh Tao. First, they were given a lecture by Sarah, detailing what coral is, what it needs to survive and threats to it's health. On dive one, they conducted a coral health check, counted missing corals and searched for and collected threatened fragments near the shore.

Recently, while looking for locations for a new buoyancy world, Course Director Natalie Hunt, Divemaster Trainer Lee Nightingale and MSDT Sarah Van Name stopped by the nursery for a peek. There is a lot of coral growth and fish life around the structure.  There is a small amount of coral death but overall life seems to be blooming. Small groups of juvenile fish, damsels dancing in the coral and even a juvenile longfin batfish dancing around the divers heads.  Of course there is some unwanted life such as algae growth and even a crown of thorns sitting on top of the structure.