Reuters Diver Club Activities - Reefs Clean up
On the busy Friday evening of Bangkok, Mar 9th, 30 Reuters Diver Club members flew to Phuket, the famous vacation spot in Southern Thailand, on a mission to help save the coral reefs. We have joined the Green Fins Project - sponsored by Reuters Thailand Limited (and also self funding from all of us) - and committed to spread the knowledge we have learned from this two day event; how to clean up, monitor the reefs and preserve them for future generations.
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Mar 10th, in the early morning, everyone jumped into the Blue water with 80 3 year old Giant Clams. These were placed around the reef of Loh-La-Nah Bay which had taken a direct hit from the Tsunami on the day after Christmas 2004.
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During these 2 sunny days, we all had a hand in collecting garbage from the reefs. During the reef clean up dives, the water visibility was terrible, down to 2 meters in some areas. But with all our effort and excellent underwater coordination we managed to bring up 148 Kg of non-environmental friendly rubbish, include an engine exhaust pipe, fishing net, rope, plastic sacks etc.
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We declared the mission successful but there is still tons of rubbish down on the coral reefs sites which we will have to go back to continue this vital work.
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