Posted on Dec 1, 2009 in News, Pattaya Diving News | Comments Off
Pattaya city officials, the Royal Thai Navy and the Tourism Authority of Thailand have joined forces to market Pattaya as a premier wreck-diving destination and with the formation of a new dive operator club and the sinking of another shipwreck within two years.
Tentatively called the Pattaya Dive Club, the association will promote all the city’s dive companies through a joint Internet website...
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Posted on Oct 2, 2009 in Environmental News, News, Pattaya Diving News | Comments Off
Fishing boats illegally trawling the shallow waters of Pattaya Bay were netted by marine police for bulk fishing from protected areas popular with scuba divers.
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Posted on Aug 6, 2009 in Pattaya Diving News | Comments Off
City officials are promising better patrols and a new buoy for one of Pattaya’s most-popular scuba diving sites after markers anchored by the city and local dive operators to locate an undersea shipwreck repeatedly have gone missing.
The HTMS Kood, a World War II-era landing craft intentionally sunk off nearby Koh Sak in 2006, has become a thriving artificial reef. But technical divers who use...
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Posted on Aug 6, 2009 in News, Pattaya Diving News | Comments Off
City officials are promising better patrols and a new buoy for one of Pattaya’s most-popular scuba diving sites after markers anchored by the city and local dive operators to locate an undersea shipwreck repeatedly have gone missing.The HTMS Kood, a World War II-era landing craft intentionally sunk off nearby Koh Sak in 2006, has become a thriving artificial reef. But divers keen to do wreck...
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Posted on Sep 29, 2008 in Environmental News, News, Pattaya Diving News | Comments Off
We wrote a while back about a project to revive the damaged coral reefs off Pattaya’s beaches. In September, the project finally got underway. On the heels of this year’s International Cleanup Day, there’s this report about Pattaya’s reefs coming back to life:
In September, around 100 disused cement pipes were dropped to the bottom of the sea about 3kms off the coast of...
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Posted on Jun 7, 2007 in Environmental News, News, Pattaya Diving News | Comments Off
Diving in Pattaya often gets a bad rap. People, many of whom have never dived here, say the water is polluted, there’s no fish and/or the visibility is always poor. And while, yes, Pattaya is not the Similans, much of the criticism about diving conditions here is not only undeserved, it’s plain untrue.
Credit must be given to the local and national government, which has, over the past...
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