The TRACC Certificate of Advanced Marine science course will start Thurs 19th September in Kota KInabalu Malaysia. This very practical course includes 2 diving certificates and is suitable for all and does not require any prior knowledge. We regret we will not be offering the Cambridge A level Marine science course in August 2013. [...]
TRACC school of Marine Science offers several marine science and marine biology courses. The advanced level Marine Science course is a 12 week residential course leading to an international exam and certificate. This Cambridge A Level course can be used for self improvement, to change career or to gain credits for a university or college [...]
Tracc has been working on Pom Pom Island for nearly 12 months and has made significant improvements, Large bottle reefs have been planted, these remove trash bottles from the beaches and plant them in rubble areas to provide habitat for fish and other marine life. The fish populations have also improved, giant barracuda and giant [...]
Tracc has a limited number of marine conservation opportunities for 2013. We normally choose interns from volunteers who have been with TRACC for 8 weeks. The volunteers who are selected have normally reached rescue diver and are keen, enthisiastic and committed. The internship is usually 12 weeks. The interns devide into two groups diving interns [...]
TRACC has a limited number of intern /work placement positions for 2013. Most tracc intern positions are filled by 6 or more week ex-volunteers who wish to stay on for an additional 3 months. The best interns already have diving skills, understand how to get along with people and are enthusiastic about saving the ocean. [...]
We need volunteers to monitor our replanted reefs for larval fish settlement during the summer months ( March – Oct 2013). We have lots of planted reefs with healthy growing coral. These planted reefs attract existing adult fish very quickly. This is very satisfying but doesn’t actually increase the number of fish on the island. [...]
Our volunteers write about TRACC on Facebook- on tripadvisor or Travelbuddy- or ediving These are some of the facebook posts we have saved. June 2013 I wanted to thank you and your wonderful TRACC team for welcoming my students and allowing us to help. Johnny and Fletcher were fantastic all around. We really enjoyed the visit [...]
The Borneo shark sanctuary is a project to protect all the sharks in N Borneo. A little progress has been made in Brunei with several divers and enthusiasts making waves towards some fisheries regulations. Sarawak has made little progress, fisheries is big business and marine tourism is very small. The best progress is in Sabah [...]
We are documenting the biodiversity of Pom Pom Island. Anyone who has dived here can help! If you have photographic evidence of any species seen on Pom Pom island we will add them to the database. Not just the rare and exotic but the small and common or the difficult to photograph. Some of the [...]
The devil ray bottle reef was assembled on the Northern Tip of Pom Pom Island in the summer of 2012. The bottle edging frame was filled with bottles washed up on the beach. The bottles were then covered with broken coral fragments from a bomb blast site. Success, within 2 weeks of the bottles – [...]