Coral Reef Survey
Mon, 16 Apr
|Sutera Harbour Marina & Country Club
Time & Location
16 Apr 2018, 8:00 am – 20 Apr 2018, 5:00 pm
Sutera Harbour Marina & Country Club, 88100 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
About the event
SUSTAINING KOTA KINABALU’S MARINE HERITAGE – CORAL REEF SURVEY
TENTATIVE PROGRAMME
16-20 April 2018
Date: 16 April 2018 ( Monday )
8:00 – 9:00AM
Meet and greet session for reef survey ( SH Marina )
9:00AM – 10:45AM
Go through survey manual + briefing of dive plan of the day - Determine groups for reef survey (fish, substrate, damage + potential threats)
11:00AM – 11:45AM
Prep for dive - Prep dive gear, head out to dive site
12:00PM – 1:00PM
Check-out dive - Buoyancy check + dry run for reef survey
1:00PM – 2:00PM
Lunch - On the boat
2:00PM – 3:00PM
Dive 1* - Data collection
4:00PM
Discussion and debriefing after dives - Back at SH Marina
5:00PM
End of Day 1
Date: 17 April 2018 ( Tuesday )
8:00AM – 8:30AM
Briefing of dive plan of the day ( SH Marina )
8:30AM – 9:00AM
Prep for dive
10:00AM – 11:00AM
Dive 2*
11:00AM – 12:00PM
Break
12:00PM – 1:00PM
Dive 3*
1:00PM – 2:00PM
Lunch
2:00PM – 3:00PM
Dive 4 *
4:00PM
Discussion and debriefing after dives - Back at SH Marina
5:00PM
End of Day 2
Date: 18 April 2018 ( Wednesday )
8:00AM – 8:30AM
Briefing of dive plan of the day ( SH Marina )
8:30AM – 9:00AM
Prep for dive
10:00AM – 11:00AM
Dive 5*
11:00AM – 12:00PM
Break
12:00PM – 1:00PM
Dive 6*
1:00PM – 2:00PM
Lunch
2:00PM – 3:00PM
Dive 7*
4:00PM
Discussion and debriefing after dives - Back at SH Marina
5:00PM
End of Day 3
Date: 19 April 2018 ( Thursday )
8:00AM – 8:30AM
Briefing of dive plan of the day ( SH Marina )
8:30AM – 9:00AM
Prep for dive
10:00AM – 11:00AM
Dive 8*
11:00AM – 12:00PM
Break
12:00PM – 1:00PM
Dive 9*
1:00PM – 2:00PM
Lunch
2:00PM – 3:00PM
Dive 10*
4:00PM
Discussion and debriefing after dives - Back at SH Marina
5:00PM
End of Day 4
Date: 20 April 2018 ( Friday )
9:00AM – 11:00AM
Discussion of data collection exercise, species identification, image processing and data analyses - Venue to be decided
11:00AM – 12.00PM
Lunch & End of coral reef survey (week 1) - Venue to be decided
*Number of dives per day will depend on the weather and time. We aim to do 1 data collection dive on day 1, and 2 or 3 dives on Tuesday – Thursday.