That meant serving breakfast, packing their gear and other extra duties.
We did get some conservation work done to, both on land and in the ocean.
Monday we went out in Chalok Bay together with the kids to deplay the structures we built and plant corals on to them.
My team was responsible for getting the coral ropes from the coral collector we installed last week, it was pretty hard work carrying the ropes to the site where the structures were and it took some time for us to both find the coral collector and then the site were the structures were.
But we finally managed to get everything there.
For me it wasn't one of my better diving work, first I managed to pop up to the surface by filling the BCD to much and then I did the opposite. We were very shallow though so there were no real danger, just frustrating.
Tuesday we went to Twins and Bouyancy World to plant corals with epoxy, all went really good and we worked fast and efficient. Just when we've finished we saw a sea snake which we followed around for a while, it was beautiful! We all had air left so we dove around for a while before getting back on the boat.
Wednesday we went to Shark Bay to do a shark survey, this is done snorkelling. We saw a lot of blacktip reef sharks, they were beautiful.
In the afternoon we went to Save Koh Tao office to clean up before the buoy- and mooring line workshop on Thursday.
After I left my BCD to a seamstress to repair a small rupture in the fabric. It's a travel BCD so the fabric is pretty thin with integrated weight pockets. I don't think Cressi thought that one through properly when constructing that BCD. The weight from the pockets when you have weights in them is to much for the fabric to handle.
I've now started using a weight belt ínstead.
Thursday was the workshop, several dive schools attended so after the lecture we all got down to work. Many hands made easy work and we were done by lunch time already. We were all pretty tired after being out in the sun.
After our team went to lunch together, and after I got my repaired BCD.
Friday back in the water :) The plan was to find a good location for installing a new mooring line in Tai Tong. On our way there we saw a fish trap floating on the surface which we retrieved.
One team went down to find a suitable rock, but had to abort that when they found a huge net covering an area of corals.
The whole team went down equipped with scissors, bags and rope to remove the net. It was a difficult task, you have to be very careful when removing the net so you don't put additional stress on the corals and whatever live organisms that are trapped in the net.
After a job well done we went back to Chalok Bay and repaired one buoy and installed a new one. I snorkelled out to where the new mooring line where (was a bit of a swim) with a knife to cut the rope.
When we were back in the dive shop we cleaned up and transformed the fish cage to a beach garbage bin :) So something that was before evil is now doing good :)
Yesterday was land- and underwater clean-up day.
First we cleaned the beach and road in Chalok. After that we went to Sairee for the underwater clean-up.
Was a fantastic dive, I practiced a lot on body control and buoyancy while collection trash from the bottom.
Totally we collected 11 kg's of trash.
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