Tiomani Island Tekek
We are a private corporation who would be undertaking the development of an island that lies in South China Sea off the east coast of Malaysia. The Island of Tioman has been among the top ten most beautiful islands in the world, renowned for its beautiful environment and exotic marine life. The 13,000 ha. Island and 7 other smaller islands in the vicinity are now zoned as 'marine park', which also include the sea areas within 2 nautical miles surrounding them. Our redevelopment program places a strong emphasize on conservation, with the aim to elevate the island into the most beautiful island in the world. An integral part of the program is the restoration and enhancement of corals reef within the marine park, which has been damaged due to various factors such as unregulated diving and land-discharge pollutants. We have been seriously studying our website with great interest, and looking strongly at the possibility of incorporating your product and system inside our project. We have a tight schedule of 2-years to complete the exercise, and would be grateful if you could provide us with some kind of proposition based on the information we are attaching with this letter, to initiate the project. We look forward to your prompt reply. Thank you Yours truly, Md. Idros Sumari TIFTA+SECOR, Special Project
Among the pioneer artificial reef projects in Malaysia, the Pahang Regent's Reef project was recorded in the Malaysian Book of Records as the first of its kind in Malaysia using 50 concrete reef balls, each weighing at 300kg arranged in a diamond-shaped formation. Located just offshore near Pulau Renggis, this site which is under the patronage of the Pahang Regent, Tengku Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah, is extended every year at the end of the diving season in the east coast.
DHL Malaysia has conducted a Reef Restoration Program in conjunction with World Environmental Day (WED) 2004. The program was carried out at Tioman Island and sees the DHL team and members of the media deploying artificial reef balls onto the sea bed. The deployment of the reef balls restores ailing coral reefs and will create a new fishing and scuba diving site.
Prior to deployment the team conducted a survey to test for water suitability for coral growth, water current movement and sea bed stability.
There will also be regular maintenance and monitoring of the progress of the propagated corals.
All images are copyrighted 1993-2007 (C) by Reef Ball Foundation, Inc. and by the original photographers. High resolution versions of most newer images are available by emailing your request to reefball@reefball.com. (please provide the URL of the photo requested) Use of images requires a link to www.reefball.org crediting Reef Ball Foundation as the photo source. Please email any photos you have with Reef Ball images to us and we will post in this photo database. Please indicate if you are freely sharing the photos or wish to retain your original copyrights and we will note that when posted.