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Koh Tao Community Portal Page - News and Information about Scuba Diving and much more
Thank you for visiting the Koh Tao Community Website. On this page you find a packed overview of our newest content. If you have any question regarding Koh Tao or scuba diving, please visit our forums. All posts will be answered from either our staff or other members. If you would like to volunteer on any of the ongoing projects, please check the Koh Tao volunteer forums on this website.
Find information about Koh Tao Diving, Dive Resorts, Hotels, Restaurants, Activities on this beautiful island, Newest Events and Parties, Free Classifieds, Software Downloads, and many Pictures of Ko Tao and the surroundings.
We are adding new content on daily bases, check back frequently to read the news of Turtle Island. Click Ctrl+D to bookmark this website.
Learn more about our Environmental Projects of the Koh Tao Conservation Center and the English Summer Camp for the School Children of Koh Tao.
Have you ever seen a real Thai Boxing Fight ? Never miss a fight. All important dates and happenings are added in the event calendar.
The Yellow Pages provide you with just about every phone number and address on Koh Tao. Enjoy your stay.
After the old night boat sunk, there has been a lot of interest in helping out with the salvage of the boat. The boat has to be cleaned out and freed from environmental hazards like Engine Oil and Fuel, so it can become a Reef for Fish to live on and for us to go wreck diving on Koh Tao! On trip on the 16th of April, which is great. But in order to accommodate all of the divers who want to go out and get a chance to dive a new wreck site we have extended this project another day. Now we will be going out on both the 16th and 17th, and interested divers can come along to help document photograph the site and recover anything of value from the wreck. The current plan for the 2 days is as follows:
Saturday, May 16th
ig Blue Tech will go out in the early morning along with a members of Save Koh Tao in the Sairee Cottage speed boat to locate and mark the site with a buoy, and also to evaluate to the conditions and depth at the site and any possible hazards that need to be addressed in the briefing.
Around 12 the Big Blue Boat will go out to the site with the tech team and about 15 divers who want to join in.They can supply tanks, but you will have to bring your own equipment. The 15 spots will go on a first come basis, but preference will be given to people who have been helping out regularly with Save Koh Tao projects.
Sunday, May 17th
The big Blue Boat will be going back out again, the plan is to recover the rest of the items and get good information about the condition of the wreck/site
Anybody who would like to can go along. But, if your school has a lot of people who want to go it would be best if you can also send a boat. Currently we only have one boat going, but if more boats signed up we could get a lot more work done and allow more people to go and enjoy the dives there.
The most unbelievable things just happen! The baby turtles from the turtle nursery in Aow Leuk have been stolen with their baskets. In the night from the 27th to the 28th of April some thief stole all the baby turtles that have been brought up i the turtle conservation project of 'Save Koh Tao' and the Thai Navy. The turtle project is meant to raise turtles to a certain age, without the danger of natural predators, and then release them around the island. We urge anyone who might have seen or heard anything about the stolen turtles, to come forward and notify Save Koh Tao.
This year the Koh Tao UnderWaterWorld Festival will take place in Sairee again, but it will be for two days and two nights! Lots of entertainment and environmental education is on the program. A photo contest will take place, where everybody can participate and we will find out who is going to be Miss Koh Tao 2009! The festival will take off with a ceremony held by the monchs at the Rama V Monument in Sairee, followed by a parade through Sairee towards the festival area, where the Grand Opening Ceremony will be held at 11:00 am.
One of the highlights will be a band well known to all who have been at last years festival, Asto na Pai is coming back to give us some more of this great gypsy music! Please have a look at the schedule and the program of the Koh Tao Festival 2009.
As planed, i presented the project Center Island - A Plastic Bottle Biorock Island on the 5th of February in Chalok baan Kao. The presentation at the Save Koh Tao Meeting went well so far and i was very happy to get provided with a projector to show my presentation.
I was busy planing and designing the idea during the past month, as well as busy creating the presentation itself. Now that the presentation is over and all depends on how much support the idea of building Center Island (or Koh Sun - in Thai) can get during the month to come, i have decided to publish the PowerPoint Slide show on how Center Island could be built, on the Internet. I have already uploaded the Slide show on the German language Koh Tao Magazine and now it is also available here at the Koh Tao Community Website.[...]
By Chad Scott - After a nice break for the monsoon and holiday season, the Save Koh Tao Marine Branch is getting back into action for 2009. The sun is shining, the viz is getting better (slowly), and there are a lot of fun and exciting projects starting up around the island. The first Save Koh Tao meeting for 2009 will be on the 5th of January at the Chalok Ban Kao government building, 7pm. At the meeting, we will discuss this years broad goals and plans, update everybody about the Bio Rock and EMP, start discussing possible large projects, and plan the January Beach/underwater clean-up.
Two years ago, when we started our sailing business as pioneers here on Koh Tao, we already knew that this won't be a walk in the park. With the lack of yacht facilities
in the Gulf of Thailand, and especially on Koh Tao, only people with an extended cruising background, and the ability to improvise, could attempt to do this.
During the last two years we managed to keep our boats in shape and our services up to a standard found by any other sailing charter company in Thailand.
After the great success of having a summer camp at Secret Garden last year, the decision has been made to DO IT AGAIN! Thanks to all the help of the Community and thanks to the help of many local and guest volunteers and especially Pi Dusit from Koh Tao Info Shop and Pi Prasit from Pr@sit internet Service and not to forget the man who made it all happen, Pi Bee who launched the project in the first place and is running for it since, we will have a summer camp again this year. The opening day will be on April 1st and the camp will stay open daily for 6 weeks until 4th of May. The summer camp will be held on a different location this year. Instead of the Secret Garden area in Sairee, this years summer camp will be held in Mae Haad at the Temple garden and at the school area just behind. The new place is more convenient for the parents because of the central location. Holding the camp here will also greatly reduce transport costs and personnel. Please take a minute to read the open letter to business owners if you run a business on Koh Tao (or you know someone who does) and the list of what is needed to get the ball rolling again....in a manner of speech.
The Thai Language Lesson (TLL) project is a great opportunity for all foreigners on Koh Tao no matter where you come from, no matter how old you are.
Proper classes will be held at the Koh Tao Primary School in Mae Haad. You basically attend to the classes that have Thai language as subject. As a student of the TLL classes you will not only learn to understand Thai, but also to speak, read and write the Thai language. Your efforts in the classroom will be supported by local children what for sure is going to be fun and will give you much insight in Thai culture. By attending the TLL classes a participant must agree to be present according to the timetable of the classes, and yes, you will have to do some homework too. But hey, what a place for homework.
The Secret Garden educational and conservation program began in January 2007, the program has been compiled with the intention to help improve the current local kids’ educational and environmental standards in order for the Koh Tao community and school kids to solve the present issues and pass on the tools and knowledge to the future generations to come, for the long term benefit of Koh Tao.
After four months of hard work and dedication, in May 2007 the Secret Garden obtained OR.BOR.TOR approval and authorization to run English studies and activities for the Koh Tao primary and nursery school, as well as environmental and community projects to solve some of the current issues on the island
I came to Koh Tao to take part in a volunteer program with the Secret Garden Environmental Activity Centre. When I first arrived, I felt like I had fallen into a postcard- Koh Tao looks exactly as I expected a tropical island in paradise to look.
Turquoise water, white sand beaches, coconut trees, and jungle-covered hills. Add to this some of Asia's best loved dive sites and it becomes easy to understand why so many people you meet here are on their second, third or tenth visit.
Tourist has become the largest industry on Koh Tao, from scuba divers keen to explore the reef, backpackers soaking up the easy living and great nightlife, to families enjoying one of the friendliest islands in Thailand.
