Bangsaphan community coral reef clean up
Bangsaphan community coral reef clean up
The event, held on April 10th, was organised and sponsored by the local government (OPD) and a number of companies and organizations including Omsin Bank, Chumphon Marine Conservation Group, Coral Resort (who provided the scuba tanks) and Kig Travel Company (who provided the boats). The objective was to clean the trash off the coral reefs surrounding Koh Sing and Koh Sang before the Songkran tourist rush, I was fortunate enough to be invited along.
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Sadly as long as the Thai fishing community continues to abuse the ocean and reefs this problem will never be resolved, however with initiatives like this one we hope we can make a bit of a difference in the right direction.
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Never understood the mentality of fisherman who livelihood depends on a healthy sea. In the Philippines they are still using dynamite, close to the shore,trust that's not hapening in Thaland.As we have said before education is the key but how to you get the message through to these people ? Great photos ,thanks.
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Zone Rider here, just checking in.
Thanks to the opportunity from Buksi for the dive.
Thanks to the opportunity from Buksi for the dive.
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Cheers for adding the vid however when I try to play it I get "An error occurred, please try again later."
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Worked for me at 7.0pm Thai timebuksida wrote:Cheers for adding the vid however when I try to play it I get "An error occurred, please try again later."
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Just to prove I'm not losing the plot here is a screenshot ...
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Just got it ... nice - the viz actually looks better in that vid than is was!
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Looks like the visibility here in California!!
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Nice video Zone Rider! Will you be doing more? Do not dive myself, so rather interesting to see what's underneath all that water!!