Hi and welcome back to another scuba diving blog for Sairee Cottage Diving, Koh Tao. This time I would like to discuss an issue not new to dive professionals. This issue is regarding the oceans Whip Coral. We all know not to touch coral for our safety and theirs. Corals take decades to grow so even if we break of
Read more →HAPPY EARTH DAY! By the time you read this it will already be earth day. In fact, while you read this people all over Koh Tao will be performing beach clean ups or be out on the many dive boats preforming clean up dives all around the coast of our beautiful Island. For us on Koh Tao, it is a
Read more →Hi everyone and welcome back to another one of my blogs for Sairee Cottage Diving. We live on a paradise island known as Koh Tao. Thousands of tourists come and visit us in this paradise so this time I would like to talk about something that hopefully will help change the way a lot of people act on holiday. Everyday
Read more →Sairee Cottage Diving Koh Tao is an eco friendly dive school. We are dedicated to marine conservation and education. Our staff are passionate about the ocean and will sit and chat with our divers about how to inspire others to protect our ocean.
Read more →On Koh Tao there a few PADI Instructors and Divemasters that go above and beyond, to not only teach us safe diving practices, but also about marine eco conservation and how to inspire others. These PADI professionals inspire many other divers to become more environmental friendly. Because of this reason we at Sairee Cottage Diving have created a unique Project
Read more →“We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system next to a human cardiovascular system, look at corals or trees and look at our lungs, you literally cannot tell the difference. They’re the same. So when we destroy our environment, we’re effectively destroying ourselves.” – Ian Somerhalder
Read more →It’s Earth Day At Sairee Cottage Diving and we take it seriously to be as eco aware as we can possibly be. We dedicate time all year, not only on dedicated days. Of course we participated in Earth Day as well by coordinating a clean-up dive and beach clean-up at Lham Tian bay, east side of Koh Tao. We dedicated
Read more →Incredible Marine Life Sightings In March a few PADI diving instructors and PADI Divemasters managed to get time off together and spend 6 awesome days of diving on the other side of Thailand in the Similan Islands. They saw a huge Manta Ray, which made us still diving over hear in Koh Tao extremely jealous. However frequent reports of Whale
Read more →Last Friday we were fortunate to have some free time, and at Sairee Cottage Diving Koh Tao this means clean up dive time! During our regular fun dives, we sometimes come across a polluted area so when we have an opportunity to go clean it up, we take it.
Read more →During the IDC on Koh Tao at Sairee Cottage Diving we teach a lot about Marine Conservation and Project AWARE. One of our last candidates wanted to share her experience during the ECO Lecture and this is her story: During my IDC (Instructor Development Course) at Sairee Cottage Diving on Koh Tao I had the luck to be present on
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