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July 21, 2009 - Another Reef Check Ecodiver Certified on Koh Tao

Over the course of the last 5 days Eco Koh Tao have been busy surveying some northern reefs around the sheltered Mango Bay. The southerly winds make it a perfect location for the latest Reef Check Ecodiver course.

Judith Feigel mother of three from Belgium had come across an advertisement for Reef Check while diving in Malaysia a year ago and actively sought out a Reef Check Dive Centre to learn more about the ecology of reefs and what can be done to protect them. “I’d been diving for years and I have over 300 dives but I realised I had no understanding about what I was looking at” Judith said.

  Reef Check Ecodiver
Judith Feigel, Instructor TIna Major and Divemaster Kat Costis after their Reef Check Survey

 

Judith decided to take an active role in the preservation of the world’s reefs and completed a Project Aware Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty Course, a Project Aware Specialty Course and the Reef Check Ecodiver Course.

 
Reef Check Ecodiver  

Conducted over 5 days training included dives in Mango Bay and Japanese Gardens, Reef Check Training dives on our permanent transect line in Mae Haad, a Reef Check Survey of Mango Bay and the dive on our Eco Koh Tao’s own Junkyard reef. Judith also helped to collect broken coral fragments for planting on our coral nursery, all part of Eco Koh Tao’s reef restoration research.

Congratulations on a very enjoyable and productive 5 days to Judith. Thanks also to Ecodivers Tina Major and Kat Costis for their help during the Mango Bay survey.

Over the course of the last 5 days Eco Koh Tao have been busy surveying some northern reefs around the sheltered Mango Bay. The southerly winds make it a perfect location for the latest Reef Check Ecodiver course. Judith Feigel mother of three from Belgium had come across an advertisement for Reef Check while diving in Malaysia a year ago and actively sought out a Reef Check Dive Centre to learn more about the ecology of reefs and what can be done to protect them. “I’d been diving for years and I have over 300 dives but I realised I had no understanding about what I was looking at” Judith said.
Judith with some of our 'baby' corals
at our local coral nursery in Mae Haad

Reef Check Ecodiver
A beautiful example of some of the
pristine corals that exist in Mango Bay

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