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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 [...]
The currents were strong – we drifted to our coral planting bottle reef site. What an amazing dive. We saw, an eagle ray, bumphead parrotfish, a hunting amberjack, several blue spotted reef rays and a very large giant trevally. Plus of course Loads of green and 2 hawksbill turtles, The small and camouflaged were in [...]
The beaches of Pom Pom island get lots of logs washed up. These form a physical barrier for the turtles which stops the female turtles from getting off the beach and upto the grass & bushes behind the high tide line. Our solution is to cut the [...]
TRACC offers short 5 day marine science and conservation courses for divers. These are ideal for groups of friends or dive clubs. The courses are timed to coincide with important seasonal events. The Coral reef ecology course takes place at the same time as the seasonal Coral spawning event, join us for sex at the beach. [...]
We were fortunate enough to get a visit from Marjolijn Christianen a PHD student from the Netherlands who brought us a lovely toy to play with. The remote controlled drone aircraft takes great pictures of turtles on the seagrass beds around the island. We managed to fly the plane twice at high tide once on [...]
Pom pom island has a lot of turtles nesting every year. These are mostly Green Turtles and peak nesting season is May to September. During this season there are a few nesting almost every night. For the rest of the year nesting drops to a few female every week. Most females lay 80-100 eggs which [...]
The sharks have been around since before the dinosaurs, they have been swimming the world’s oceans for more than 400 million years. They watched the dinosaurs come and go, they survived the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs, but in 50 years we have reduced sharks to critically low numbers. They simply cannot survive overexploitation [...]
The turtles on Pom Pom are a lazy bunch. They lie on the bottom and rest all day and night. It is not scientific to say this but myself and the other volunteers are convinced they have personalities. The big rock turtle no14 ( we use names because the tags haven’t arrived yet) lies under [...]
The green connection rescued and released two large green turtles. The turtles were caught floating on the surface in March 2011 by fishers. They were treated for plastic bags in the stomach and eventually they started to feed. After several months of recuperation with good food and multivitamins the two turtles were healthy enough to [...]