In September 2008 Eco Koh Tao joined forces with Save Koh Tao and a number of other dive schools to construct and deploy Koh Tao’s second Biorock ™ dive site. Named Hin Fai (Electric Rock) the site was constructed on land over the course of a week and transported and lowered to its site late in September 2008. IT was left to settle during the monsoon months of October through to December of that year.
Throughout 2011 and into 2012 volunteers, including many from Eco Koh Tao have been working at the Biorock site to transplant dying and broken coral fragments onto the structures for rehabilitation, collecting growth rates of the corals on the Biorock and assessing the percentage cover of the corals on the structure. |
Click on the image to see up-to-date pictures of life at Koh Tao Biorock and our continued research. |
An important part of our environmental program is to help raise awareness of our eco-activities and introduce people to some of the many projects underway on Koh Tao. During our many trips to the Hin Fai site we have given people a through introduction to the site, many of whom are visiting the site for the first time. Those with adequate training help us collect growth data and transplant corals to the site.
Graphical data for hard coral growth indicates that the percentage of living coral cover on the ‘HinFai Dome’ is currently around 3%, but it is increasing at an exponential rate. Our work is essential to its continued success. |
