Projects, Events & Activities
Blue-Guru.org - Thailand (Nov 2013 - March 2014)
As of November 2013 Snippy's Snaps Diving is offering it's services via Blue Guru Diving located on Koh Phra Thong in Thailand. Blue Guru Diving actively promotes, conducts and contributes to eco-projects around the globe and on the island. below here you can find an overview of projects and activities done by Snippy's Snaps Diving while working for Blue Guru.
Cleanups - Reefs, Beach, ResortAs often as possible trying to clean up the beaches of Koh Phra Thong and the reefs on the local islands.
the reefs hold lots of fishing lines, hooks and nets that either come from fishing on the island or drifting in from sea. the biggest net retrieved was one of 2mx4m |
Mooring system & Artificial ReefAs Blue Guru had purchased a smaller speedboat to be used for local and closeby offshore diving. This boat preferable would be moored in the local bay of Koh Phra Thong
with the use of stainless steel and concrete filled tires made a mooring sytem. inside the top tire also empty bottles and pieces of bamboo were place to provide protection for small fish. On seeing fish using the protection of the mooring system, an artificial reef was build out of bamboo and found materials as 2 anchors, fishing nets, etc unfortunate broken coral found around the islands reefs where relocated to the artificial reef to try to regenerate a reef there and provide additional security to the system. |
Blue Guru's Ocean Action ProjectBlue Guru has been running a project for their own in which they count animal encounters of sharks, rays, reefmonitoring and fishingboat sightings on divesites.
if applicable this data also is entered in the global project databases for the Whaleshark, Manta Rays, Seaturtles, Shark Trust etc In the season 2013-2014 this was extended to include the data for the iSeahorse, eShark, Spot the Leopard Shark In December 2013 Blue Guru's Ocean Action Project was among one of the winners of Project Aware's Ocean Action Project draw to receive fundings for the project. In 2014 Blue Guru started to make more concrete actions in their project next to the monitoring of reefs and underwaterlife |
eShark - Thailand / SharkGuardian (Nov 2013 - current)
the SharkGuardian / eShark.org project for monitoring and reporting shark populations in Thailand is again a community based project. Sharkguardian is calling out to all local divers and dive shops in Thailand that during the 2013/2014 high season they report their sightings and also their NON-sightings.
With a high season of reports SharkGuardian and eShark want to get a detailed report on the populations and to use the data for coming marine management initiatives, as Shark Sanctuaries
Snippy's Snaps Diving will be providing its data in that period via the SharkGuardian divelog form.
With a high season of reports SharkGuardian and eShark want to get a detailed report on the populations and to use the data for coming marine management initiatives, as Shark Sanctuaries
Snippy's Snaps Diving will be providing its data in that period via the SharkGuardian divelog form.
iSeahorse - Global project (Sept 2013 - Current)
Quoting the website: "iSeahorse is a tool for seahorse science and conservation iSeahorse harnesses the power of ‘citizen scientists’ — anyone, anywhere in the world who sees a seahorse in the wild — to improve our understanding of these animals and protect them from overfishing and other threats."
Snippy's Snaps Diving has a profile on their website and is actively contributing with his sightings and pictures.
Snippy's Snaps Diving has a profile on their website and is actively contributing with his sightings and pictures.
Spot the leopard Shark - Thailand (Aug 2013 - current)
As of August 2013 a community-based project has been started by the University of Queensland, Australia to start to recognize, count and monitor the Leopard shark population in the Thai waters. This project is run by Christine Dudgeon. Sharks are among her field specialty and she has ran a project 'Spot the leopard Shark' in Australia already and research their population ecology.
Now after 3 yrs of monitoring the population there, a project together with the support of Thai local organisation is started to see why what is believed is a decline in leopard shark sightings and which leopards are seen where.
Snippy's Snaps Diving is actively supporting this project via providing his images of leopard sharks and creating additional publicity for the project via media. By that trying to get more people to contribute to the project.
we hope that the project will give a good insight on the population and maybe, if needed, can help in protecting these beautiful and friendly sharks.
For more info check out the website: Spot the leopard shark - thailand or follow (AND contribute) via the Facebook page.
If you provide data of a new leopard shark you get the opportunity to name your shark
at this moment (sept 3013) Snippy's Snaps Diving has named 3 leopard sharks. You can find the names and pictures on the project pages or on the Snippy's Snaps Diving Facebook Page
Snippy also got honored by Helen, the Course Director of Blue Guru, she named her sighted leopard shark after him. Meet Snippy the leopard shark here. Snippy the leopard shark has been sighted in 2009 on Phi Phi Sharkpoint and then re-sighted on koh Tachai in 2011.
Now after 3 yrs of monitoring the population there, a project together with the support of Thai local organisation is started to see why what is believed is a decline in leopard shark sightings and which leopards are seen where.
Snippy's Snaps Diving is actively supporting this project via providing his images of leopard sharks and creating additional publicity for the project via media. By that trying to get more people to contribute to the project.
we hope that the project will give a good insight on the population and maybe, if needed, can help in protecting these beautiful and friendly sharks.
For more info check out the website: Spot the leopard shark - thailand or follow (AND contribute) via the Facebook page.
If you provide data of a new leopard shark you get the opportunity to name your shark
at this moment (sept 3013) Snippy's Snaps Diving has named 3 leopard sharks. You can find the names and pictures on the project pages or on the Snippy's Snaps Diving Facebook Page
Snippy also got honored by Helen, the Course Director of Blue Guru, she named her sighted leopard shark after him. Meet Snippy the leopard shark here. Snippy the leopard shark has been sighted in 2009 on Phi Phi Sharkpoint and then re-sighted on koh Tachai in 2011.
Shark Count - Local activity / Private Project- Orientalsea.com (May 2013 - current)
For years Lars, a Danish national, has monitored, counted and recognized blacktip Reefsharks out of a personal interest. By coincidence Snippy's Snaps Diving found the website and got in contact with Lars.
As of that moment a relationship got established and Snippy's Snaps Diving and Moskito Diving starting to actively contribute to this project.
the activities for this project consists of monitoring, registering all shark sightings. and taken pictures of Sharks for registration and identification.
sightings are done during all diving activities or via special snorkeltrips to Phi Phi Don - Shark Point / Hin Phae. You can follow this monitoring via the website Orientalsea.com
Blacktip sharks get named when they have multiple sightings in different years. At this moment (sept. 2013) Snippy's Snaps Diving has named 2 Blacktip sharks that have been sighted by Snippy and others in multiple years.
You can find the names and pictures on the project pages or on the Snippy's Snaps Diving Facebook Page
As of that moment a relationship got established and Snippy's Snaps Diving and Moskito Diving starting to actively contribute to this project.
the activities for this project consists of monitoring, registering all shark sightings. and taken pictures of Sharks for registration and identification.
sightings are done during all diving activities or via special snorkeltrips to Phi Phi Don - Shark Point / Hin Phae. You can follow this monitoring via the website Orientalsea.com
Blacktip sharks get named when they have multiple sightings in different years. At this moment (sept. 2013) Snippy's Snaps Diving has named 2 Blacktip sharks that have been sighted by Snippy and others in multiple years.
You can find the names and pictures on the project pages or on the Snippy's Snaps Diving Facebook Page
Green Star – Consultant – Jan-Mar 2013
Initiated on becoming a PADI Green Star Dive Centre.
After completing form and complying with the requirements – received the award and become the Green Star Consultant. With initiating additional events in relation to Conservation and Protection of the underwater world
After completing form and complying with the requirements – received the award and become the Green Star Consultant. With initiating additional events in relation to Conservation and Protection of the underwater world
DiveTribe Thailand – Local Conservation Group (Jan 2013 - current)
As becoming Green and environmental aware is getting more and more important as a company and out of personal interest. Created and maintained a far going partnership with DiveTribe.
As the main contact for Aquanauts I participated in/organized many of their activities like:
Mooring Project:
Project to establish mooring buoys in the Pattaya Area to prevent damage to reefs by anchors. I was the lead for one team for the drilling. In which I was able to get multiple local diveshops to participate and train with us. Shark Release
As one of the 5 diveshops were responsible for the release of the sharks on the day. as preparation went to local harbours looking for sharks and arranged the whole day via the diveshop including handling the donation fees for DiveTribe after this another release supervised/participated in March. Marine Biology courses:
Not started yet, but have had several discussions with the CEO and lead Lecturer from the university on how to start this and what it would contain. |
Coastal cleanup day - 2012
Organized this day together with other instructor at Aquanauts. Organization of the day consisted out of arranging cleanup materials, selecting Divesite, acquiring Project Aware Material.
During this day we performed an underwater and a beach cleanup at Shark Point on Koh Larn in Pattaya. The information collected was documented and updated in the Project Aware Database for Debris.
During this day we performed an underwater and a beach cleanup at Shark Point on Koh Larn in Pattaya. The information collected was documented and updated in the Project Aware Database for Debris.
Coastal cleanup day - 2008
Participated in the day organized by Aquanauts Dive Center, Pattaya, Thailand.
During this day we performed an underwater and a beach cleanup at Saxophone bay on Koh Larn in Pattaya.