With a capacity for 168 yachts, the well-designed Marina at Keppel Bay has obtained numerous awards and accreditations, including “5 Gold Anchors”, “Green Maritime Company of the Year” and “Clean Marina Level 3 accreditation” in recent years.  What’s more, it was honoured with the “PIANC Marina Excellence Design Jack Nichol Award 2016” in April.

The “open concept” of Marina at Keppel Bay allows water to flow through the entire marina during the change of tides and bring nutrients and plankton that are essential to stimulate marine life and coral growth.  Therefore, many sea plants and animals, including clown fish, juvenile batfish, tiger tail seahorse and sea turtles, have made the marina their home.

Marina at Keppel Bay also has spent great efforts and taken an active role in minimizing hazards that could make negative impact to the environment, including:

• Providing a reticulated vacuum sewer pump-out system to ensure that sewage from vessels are not discharged into the waters.
• Boat owners are encouraged to use biodegradable washing liquids and detergents when cleaning their yachts.
• Fishing is not allowed within the marina in order to help sustain a well-balanced ecosystem and food chain.
• Divers regularly help to record the growth of coral reef, animals, fish and plants through photographic captures.

The photo albums of coral reef, animals, fish and plants could be accessed through the following links:
https://www.marinakeppelbay.com/CRL_a.asp
https://www.marinakeppelbay.com/CRL_f.asp
https://www.marinakeppelbay.com/CRL_p.asp

Interested to know more about the relationship between marina and artificial reef?  Please visit the following article:
Breakwater as Artificial Reef

Photo Source:
By Stankn. (Own work.) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Source of Information：
http://www.kepcorp.com/en/content.aspx?sid=3671
https://www.marinakeppelbay.com/EN_News_detail.aspx?NewsID=63&NewsDate=08%AD04%AD20164/4