| February 9, 2010 – Buoyancy World goes Aquatic…Finally! |
The Fully laden night boat heading for deployment at Twins, Koh Tao |
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Well the talk of the week has been Buoyancy World and its imminent deployment. I am here to say the FINALLY after months of waiting and plenty of hard work it is underwater.
On Saturday Feb 6 a small team of divers from New Heaven, Crystal Dive and Eco Koh Tao headed to Twins to mark out the site and prepare for the structural deployment of our creations. |
On Sunday a number of people worked both on land and at sea to put the structures underwater. GiantOctopus, Turtles, a bamboo forest and a number of sponsored sea anemones were among the structures to go down in the shallow waters just north of popular local dive site Twins. The site was declared off limits for diving for the day to allow the bulk of the night ferry, which was used to transport and lower the structures, the room it needed to maneuver and drop heavy objects into the water. It was a long hot afternoon out on the ocean but we achieved our objective, to have everything underwater in one day, ahead of schedule. |
Our bamboo forest where it fell. We still need to move it. |
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Now the hard work began as teams from participating dive schools now had the responsibility to assemble their structure underwater. The boys from New Heaven were there erecting their tree. Bans and Sunshine reps were placing the anemones in the desired location. Crystal Dive and Eco Koh Tao joined forces with a divers from Samui Diving Services and Koh Tao Resort to first move and assemble their turtle, before starting the assortment of things we constructed. |
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Way back in September we put in such a sterling effort to develop our objects, the only problem we didn’t consider was how many individual pieces it actually contained. A giant clam in two parts, a starfish, two sea urchins, an a butterfly about 9 giant rings to hold the more than hundred ‘trees’ of our bamboo forest. It is one hell of a collection of artifacts and no shortage of manpower is required. |
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So far a team of 5 and 7 respectively have been diving their little butts off at Twins trying to make it look like the forest we want. It has been an arduous but fun task and thanks to all the people who have helped make it possible – Georgie Mills, Neil Lyas, Simon and Jennie Dowling, Crystal Dive Manager Steve Kissoon and anyone else who I may have missed in my brief spiel here.
We will be heading out in a few days time to HOPEFULLY put the finishing touches on our underwater masterpiece for all to enjoy.
Thanks for all you help everyone!!
Nathan Cook – Eco Koh Tao
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Georgie and Mullet in the anemone |
The boys from New Heaven working on their tree. |
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