At Sairee Cottage Diving, we are debris activists. Diving Koh Tao for us is as much about keeping Koh Tao clean as it is about enjoying the beautiful underwater scenery. On every dive we collect what we come across and we encourage our fun divers to do the same. Often we are not satisfied with what we were able to
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Sairee Cottage Diving affirmed our commitment to help keep our oceans clean by becoming a 100% aware dive centre. This means we support a clean, healthy ocean by making a donation on behalf of each student to Project AWARE. Every student who takes a course with us will receive the Project AWARE version of your PADI certification card and be
Read more →[singlepic id=328 w=320 h=240 float=left]Not a diver??? Do you care about the ocean but you don’t dive? Well you can still help clean our oceans even without going deep. During the first week of April we went on the snorkeling tour with Aqua Andy. We had a group of 12 people, only 4 of whom have ever been diving, and
Read more →[singlepic id=301 w=320 h=240 float=left]On the morning of the 1st of February the Sairee Cottage dive boat sailed out to Chumpon Pinnacle with a number of students and fun divers, only to find huge areas of the dive site covered by a fishing net. There were a large number of Fusiliers and Groupers caught up in the net, and unfortunately
Read more →[singlepic id=271 w=320 h=240 float=left]This month the Dive Masters, DMTs, and a few customers from Sairee Cottage Diving completed clean-up dives at two dive sites in Koh Tao. The shop closed (like most of the island) for November as it was low season and monsoon season. The monsoon never really came, but the winds changed and blew a lot of
Read more →Koh Tao already has programs in place to ensure the amazing island is kept as clean and tidy as possible today. These programs and operations have already had a massive positive impact on the Island! The yearly Save Koh Tao Festivals for example, have turned out to be a roaring success. Nevertheless, we should not, as individuals, all just sit back and let others do the work; everyone can do their bit to keep our angelic island growing and prospering year by year.
Read more →Sea Turtles on Koh Tao – Being that we are on Koh Tao, which in Thai language means “Turtle Island”, what better marine conservation topic we could find, to talk about this month, than the sea turtle. There is a total of 7 different species of sea turtles, the Green Turtle, Hawksbill Turtle, Loggerhead, Olive Ridley Turtle, Kemps Ridley, Flat Back and the giant of the family of sea turtles, the Leather Back Turtle. If you have accommodation by the beach please turn your lights off at night when not in use, they can cause turtle hatchlings to crawl in the wrong direction.
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