Day 16 - Koh Tao

Buoyancy World Volunteer Day

There was a massive turn out of 20 or so divers to help move the 80 concrete bamboo structures still remaining.

Dive 1 - Si & I were given special duties :-D
Firstly to move the buoy line, which had drifted 20 meters, back into it's correct position. The second, to put down a line to the bamboo so that no-one would have to worry about navigation. After Si and I had laid down the line, moved 2 structures, there was still no sign of anyone. Had they got lost? DOH!!
Eventually others appeared with spare tanks to fill the lift bags but by this time, Si was low on air so we did our 5m safety stop and ascended.

Dive 2 - Slightly more organised. We were split into groups. First group would go down, move as many bamboo as possible, then as people ascended, others would dive in. We had a limited amount of lift bags and it was pointless for people to be in the water not doing anything.

All in all a very productive day. There's only around 20 more bamboo structures still to move and a little tweaking here and there before Buoyancy World is finished.

What a brillinat underwater project!

Videos and Pics to follow soon!