The Save Koh Tao Group’s major project for 2009 was the development of an artificial reef structure called Buoyancy World. The concept design was an idea from Eco Koh Tao’s founder and was voted on by attending members way back in March 2009.

In 2011 as a community group our major project will be to do some maintenance and upgrades of Buoyancy World with our major project that is Buoyancy World 2.0. We will fix up structures that are there, put in some new ones all on the back of the lessons we have learnt from Buoyancy World Phase 1.

We all know that buoyancy is one of the most crucial skills for divers to master if we are going to protect the environment. We also know that, and you only have to look around sites like White Rock and Twins when doing your safety stop, the amount of damage caused by divers with poor buoyancy, often beginners.

So along the lines of theme parks or amusement parks around the world the idea as suggested to build a new dive site that could become Buoyancy World, an artificial location of enough interest to attract entry level divers away from some of our natural sights.

The aim or objective was be to construct a series of objects on land and submerge them to make an interesting, fun dive site where ‘new divers’ could be taken to practice their skills before being taken to our ‘nice’ or ‘good’ natural sites that are currently being well overused. It will also double as a research site for the propagation of coral nurseries.