18th to 20th September 2020 BE AN ECO-WARRIOR! Join our Dive Against Debris and Crown of Thorns cleanup dives to protect the reefs around Tioman Island B&J always strives to keep our coral reefs healthy. Luckily there is not much rubbish to be found on Tioman’s reefs, however there’s another consistent threat called Crown of …
Well done guys! There was an amazing effort done by our volunteers in cleaning up Tioman Island’s reefs. Most of our dive sites had a small number of Crown of Thorns (COT) in July 2018, but you guys did an amazing job! Crown of Thorns injection is the most effective methods to control COT outbreaks. …
Every day is a good day to do something good to the planet so even after diving you can pick up some floating fishing net!!!! Our captain Epi saw it floating near Soyak Island so we went to take it out. Lots of small fish were trapped in the net but we got them all out alive. …
A few days ago, we discovered three large fishing nets at some of our usual dive sites. So last Thursday we worked together with the members of the Tioman Dive Association to clean them. Our team included divers from Ray’s Dive Adventure, GoDeeper Tioman Chalets, Scuba Ace and our Reef Check/Cintai Tioman representative Alvin. We …
As our day was ending, two staff members followed DM Linde to check out a net on the other side of our ABC bay. It was going to be a little snorkel to check out how bad it was before going in with SCUBA gear. Well, we decided to freedive down, cut it loose, and …
PROJECT AWARE COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHTS By Martin Ritter, B&J Diving – Malaysia 16 JANUARY 2017  | 2:57 PM In this week’s Community Spotlight, Project AWARE catches up with Martin Ritter, scuba instructor at B&J Diving in Malaysia. Tell us about your passion for ocean conservation. The team at B&J Diving in Malaysia are scuba divers, ocean enthusiasts …
We have just under two weeks until CITES CoP17* begins. This is your chance to help protect some of the world’s most valuable shark and ray species! Hundreds of Project AWARE divers and diver centers have already urged CITES Member Parties to VOTE YES to protect sharks and rays through #Divers4SharksNRays. Now more than ever, we must keep …
Join us in our efforts to control outbreaks of the coral eating seastar Crown of Thorns aka COT! We will have our next event on 20th/21st August during which well be conducting multiple dives to inject the COTs with a bio-degradable solution of sodium bisulphate. Email Martin to learn more about this and other events. …
Join us on 12th and 13th March on Tioman Island. Our Project AWARE event will bring us to numerous dive sites where we hunt for the coral eating starfish Crown of Thorns or COT in short. We will inject COT’s using a special injection unit and a solution of sodium bisulphate (dry acid), sea water …