Recently, Eco Koh Tao and Crystal Dive have been working on new ways to reduce diver impact and improve customer experience.

One of the ways that we can help the environment is to reduce the stresses on a dive site. Having more than a few dive boats on a site will increase the damage caused by accidental contact with the reef, or chemical pollutants caused by boat outputs or sun screen. There are many, many influences that can harm the reef. Without changing laws or pressuring governments to get involved, there are some simple ways to keep Koh Tao reefs alive, and give divers an even better dive experience than they already have.

One of these ways, is to find new training areas, and new fun dive areas. This helps reduce the number of boats and divers in one area. We all go diving to see amazing underwater life. We all like that feeling of being an explorer, expecting to discover and see new things in the Ocean. If you are diving in an area with 150 other divers, it doesn't feel like the unique adventure that it should.

With this in mind. Eco Koh Tao and Crystal Dive sent out their best staff members (well, the ones that had a day off !). With Tina, Kiwi, Jenny and Simon leading the charge to discover new areas for divers to enjoy, they took some Crystal DMT's to aid the mapping.

Of the newly explored dive sites around the island, we found that most of them would be suitable for training, fun dives and only a couple which would suffice for OW 1&2  ...with this in mind, one of senior instructors planned to go use one of the sites today but due to the weather, we had to postpone diving at that particular site.