Diving the HTMS Kood wreck. (Photo: Andrew Jennings)

City officials are promising better patrols and a new buoy for one of Pattaya’s most-popular scuba diving sites after markers anchored by the city and local dive operators to locate an undersea shipwreck repeatedly have gone missing.

The HTMS Kood, a World War II-era landing craft intentionally sunk off nearby Koh Sak in 2006, has become a thriving artificial reef. But technical divers who use the wreck for courses and fun dives increasingly have been frustrated by the disappearance of buoys marking its location 31 meters below the surface. (more…)