On the 15th October 2015, A group of dives interested in cleaning up Chalok Baan Kao conducted a clean up dive out the front of where the Sunshine Dive Centre is located. A walk from the dive shop to the beach and off into the sea, ten divers of all levels participated in the shore dive on Chalok Reef. 

A number of items were collected with  total of 5 kg of trash, with a few interesting items that we found including a football t-shirt, pair of board-shorts, plate & knife and light bulbs. It is not a surprise that these items were collected as over the rainy season and heavy winds, local fishing boats tend to moor up in the bay for shelter. Of course the possiblity these items were torn from the boat due to winds and thrown overboard.

Our aim for the clean-up dives is to not only keep our underwater environment trash free, but to hopefully install awareness to the local fisherman about the importance of placing trash in the appropriate area and to recycle items such as plastic and glass item. (eg. bottes)

As the group were cleaning up the dive site we also explored the New Heaven Coral Nursery which consisted of bottles and pipe formations to re-generate corals (staghorn coral) and also closed cages housing clams from predators to increase the clam population on Koh Tao.