We are starting the New Year as we mean to continue at the Dive Centre this month. We are actively collecting the Crown of Thorn Starfish from the corals surrounding our Island. The last few days have seen some of our individual members of staff collecting these starfish, but today, everyone took part. We have [...]
~Sally's Diary~ Miles Grogan and Yoko volunteered today to help the Dive Centre with our project of Crown of Thorns starfish clear up. We went to Mantabuan to re-check a previous site where there had been a Crown of Thorns starfish removal session in the summer. There were still some young ones there, we collected [...]
~Sally's Diary~ We have accomplished another successful mission for removal of the Crown of Thorns starfish from the beautiful reefs at Mantabuan. Mike, Yunus and myself spent this morning seeking them out and collecting them up into baskets for safe removal from the sea. It is very important not to harm them whilst removing them [...]