Diving in Koh Tao

On Monday it was great to get back on the boat with calm seas as over the new new year its been pretty rough out there, plus the visibility is getting better too.

Robert getting set for hes first 2 dives

 The day started great we had 3 Padi Advance divers 1 guy Robert doing his Padi Open Water dives 1 and 2 plus 3 snorkelling, The trip out to Koh Tao only took 1 hour and 20 minutes, we drop the snorkelers and the open water at Mango Bay and the water was looking clear as a bell then the rest of us set out to Chumpon Pinnacle. Once there bubby checks done we were ready to go, I jump in first doing the giant stride and the rest followed with one guy doing the stride in to the sea a bit different to the rest of us.

Giant Stride 

We swim to the mooring line everyone ready we started our descent down, the first 8mtr was green and I thought great I hope it gets better and true enough it did 20mtr plus. It has to be one of my best dives this year there was a big shoal of giant barracudas, batfish, huge groupers and many more but sadly no whale shark. Dive finished we headed back to Mango Bay had lunch and relaxed on the beach for about 1 hour. The next dive was at Twins next to Koh Nangyuan which has to be one of the most beautiful in the Gulf of Thailand. The dive was good but we had been spoiled from our first dive. The trip back was good as the sea was flat as a pancake.

   
 Our next trip out is on 18th Jan with our partners Bophut Diving School on the purpose built dive boat Sao Samui Two.

Diving in Koh Samui

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Hi everyone hope you all had a great new year, we did here in Koh Samui with lots of fireworks on the beach. Now that the weather has calmed down we are back to diving once again. Over the new year celebration the weather has been stormy and wet with a few floods here in Samui, now its blue skys and calm seas. First i would like to congratulate Wei from Singapore and Martin from Denmark for completing there Padi Open water on new years eve and not in ideal condition's as the visibility was about 6-8 meters, waves about 1 meter.

  Yesterday was our first day out on the boat, the trip out was nice and calm. We had 12 people on the boat 2 from Lamai and 10 from Bophut Diving School (www.bophutdivingshool.com). With a mix bunch of divers, Eric had four discover scuba diver so we drop them of at Sai Ree Beach in Koh Tao and the rest of us went to a dive site called Pee Wee about 2 km away. We all got ready buddy checks done and ready to go, once in we swam to the buoy line and slowly descent down. It them came obvious because of the storms the visibility was down to about 3 meters boo, we carried on down to 18 meters and did a 40 minute dive.
 Even with the poor visibility the customers still enjoyed the dive as it was great to get back in the water. The second dive was at Twins next to Nangyuan Island and the visibility was a little bit better.

Tomorrow which is Friday we have a full boat to Koh Tao, so fingers crossed the visibility should be getting better and on Saturday full boat again. The sea conditions are looking a lot better to with waves about 0.5 of a metre.

So stay tuned for further updates on the conditions