A deep dive off Chennai can land you on corals

Chennai | Wednesday | 16th August, 2017

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It’s just the water, fish, corals and you,” he said. Happy down underFor a fee of ?7,500, the basics of scuba diving can be learned in a day. The reason why the corals off Chennai are not growing very well and there is no reef is because there are a lot of rivers emptying silt into the sea. S.

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Aravind Tharunsri, master instructor, Professional Association of Diving Instructors in Australia, who first stumbled on the rock table, says that there is a rock formation off Chennai just beyond Neelankarai where there are corals too. At Puducherry, it is further in the sea, hence the waters there are conducive to the corals,” said Mr.

Aravind, who is currently associated with Annamalai University in training their students in scuba diving..