Under an initiative by Her Majesty the Queen, the Royal Thai Army handed over 25 old tanks to the Department of Fisheries. This was reported by the Bangkok Post yesterday.
The old T69-2 tanks will serve their final time underwater, where this battalion will form an artificial reef and provide a breeding ground for marine life in the Gulf of Thailand.
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| Picture from The Bangkok Post |
Some of the retired tanks were transported yesterday from a military camp in Nakhon Ratchasima to Klong Toey Port in Bangkok. The rest will follow this weekend and Monday.
From here, they will all be shipped and placed in to a military compound in Narathiwat before being dumped into the Gulf of Thailand of Narathiwat and Pattani.
The sunken tanks should help sustain the local fisheries in the region and also these new artificial reefs will become an excellent opportunity for divers to explore them and to do some brilliant wreck diving.
Hopefully there are more old tanks left, so one day - lets hope in the near future - we can see some of them in the waters around the beautiful Koh Chang Archipelago.
And who knows, we too could be diving in a similar underwater landscape in the near future.
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| Original picture from The Nation |
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