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.