A total of ten decommissioned aircraft consisting of four Douglas C-47 Dakota Skytrain military transport aircraft and six Sikorsky S-58T helicopters of the Royal Thai Airforce aircraft stand by ready to be sunk offshore to create a new coral reef for tourists and marine life at Phuket.
Bad weather preventing the planned sinking of the aircraft which will be kept at Layan Beach until the weather improves around November 2008.
The Coral reef Squadron will create Thailand’s largest Artificial reef once completed. The Large C-47 aircraft will be have been specially prepared for divers, and each will be secured to the seabed by large concrete blocks weighing several tons.