The Marine Branch is a subset of the Save Koh Tao Community Group. Similar to the main group, the Marine Branch is a coalition of Thai and foreign locals and business owners from Koh Tao. All local land, marine, and education projects developed and initiated through the group are chosen by the community members and funded through private donations, merchandise sales, and fund raising events. The projects carried out through the group are done by volunteers from participating local dive schools and businesses.If you would like to help out, sign up through a local dive school or come to the monthly meetings held on the 5th of every month at the Yao Bar in Mae Haad, 7pm.

Marine conservation is vital for the long-term sustainability of Koh Tao’s economy and environment. This site describes the background and future goals of the SKT Marine Branch for the island of Koh Tao, be sure to explore our projects pages for current information. 

If you would like more information on the goals and projects for this year download The Marine Branch Program Outline 2010 which gives a very detailed overview of the program.

We believe in the free sharing of all information that can be helpful to others. Please feel free to browse around the publications section and let us know what you think.

If you have anything to contribute to this site, or would like to add your project to it, please contact us.

Recent News

The Next Meeting for the Marine branch of Save Koh Tao will be on August 5th, 7pm at the Yao Bar in Mae Haad. At these meetings we outline activities for the upcoming month and give updates on the on-going projects, if you miss the meeting you can download the presentation and summary on the publications page.

Thanks to everybody who submitted a film or came down the the 1st Annual Koh Tao Earth Day Film Festival at Club H2O. We had 12 great movie and sideshow submissions from people all over the island that we will be loading up onto the website soon. Stay tuned for more info and for the date of the next film fest. . .

The following is a partial list of the standards that schools must adopt to be affiliated with the Save Koh Tao Marine Branch:

The following dive schools have fulfilled these criteria for the 2nd half of 2009: