Oceans in trouble

DID YOU KNOW:

- According to research, if we go on with the current rate of Industrial fishing, the only fish left in 20-30 years time would be farm bred fish?

- That more than 80% of all ocean pollution comes from land?

As the global levels greenhouse gas is steadily increasing, the oceans are warming up as a result. This causes bleaching of corals, slowing its growth and makes it susceptible to diseases and ultimately leading to large scale reef die offs.

Industrial fishing has wiped out as many as 90% of large predatory fish! Since 1950, more than 50 million tons of tuna and other top predators have been taken from the pacific ocean. The Atlantic Ocean was the hardest hit – with over 45% of its stocks are overfished.

Our fellow team member Meng Zhi shares more about the issues pertaining to the pollution of our oceans in his blog here.

Its time we realized these problems and start doing something about it! Together, we can all play our parts to save mother nature!

The Incredible OTTO Camp

TOC's FIRST OTTO Camp this year was held last Saturday, on the 15th of January 2011.

The day started out great with visitors coming in from all over Malaysia - Pahang, PD and more!
As with every other OTTO Camps, the visitors were brought around the campus for a tour of the cutting-edge facilities, where our highly skilled and qualified trainers would guide them through the various diagnostic tools and equipment.
Visitors were also able to experience these equipments first hand, with TOC trainers bringing them through the procedures of using these equipments. The purpose of this activity is to give these visitors a preview of these equipments so that, should they choose to be in the automotive industry, they would be well prepared to handle these tools and equipments in their everyday lives.
Overall, the event went smoothly with almost 300 visitors to our very first OTTO Camp this year. Thank you very much to all staff and students who helped out last Saturday!

If you missed the TOC OTTO Camp last week, fret not! We will be having another OTTO Camp end of this month again on the 29th of January! For more information on TOC's OTTO Camp or if you would like to view more photos, head over to our Facebook page (here) to have a look!

We would like to thank you all once again for all your help and cooperation and for taking time to visit us last Saturday!=) Happy Monday to everyone and have a great week ahead!!

Happy New Year 2011!

A very Happy New Year to all our staff, students and friends. How was everyone's countdown? Have we all made our New Year's Resolution?
May this year bring upon you guys good health, much happiness, prosperity and many dreams fulfilled.

Be sure to also check out TOC's article on zerotohundred.com, featuring two of our very own students - Sharul Fahmi and Muhammad Alif Azri. Both racers for Petronas, they share stories of their racing career, from how they started it to where they are today. Read more about it here!

Once again, TOC wishes everyone a very Happy New Year!=) Lets all work towards to a better and more fulfilling year of 2011!