Photos of this months marine life

Scribbled Filefish this photo was taken at Shark Island just of the coast of Koh Tao.

Cuttlefish this was take at Mango Bay in Koh Tao

Spotted Grouper at Twins

Hexagon Grouper

February 2013

February was a great month with loads of happy divers!

Sail Rock has not been at its best this month, with visibility at only a couple of metres so most of our dives have been to Koh Tao.

Congratulations to Shane, Anna, Eibhlin and Tony who have all passed their Open Water, and to Darryl who passed his Advanced Open Water course.

Steve, Molly and Paul Came out for a great day diving and it was the start of perfect conditions, it was flat and calm the whole way to and from Koh Tao and the visibility was excellent, we even managed to find Molly a turtle at White Rock.

Jack, Andy, Donald and Serefin had a good day at Koh Tao, even if conditions were not quite perfect, our first dive was at Green Rock, where there was a fair bit of current, and then on the second dive to Twins the visibility was not what we are used to! But still we managed to spot all our usual marine life including barracudas, moray eels, porcupine fish…..

Rob booked up to come out for a day and ended up spending 3 days on he boat, he was hoping to get to Sail Rock but unfortunately conditions weren’t improving so he had 3 days at Koh Tao.

We’ve managed to get a couple of good dives at Chumpon Pinnacle this month, which has been great, sadly no whale sharks the days that we’ve been there, but there were lots of barracuda around.

We have had a few days of Discover Scuba Diving this month which everyone thoroughly enjoyed!

A couple of our regulars have been back out with us, Colin and Pam came out…….Paul  got the chance to go and see the wreck, whilst Davie was back and got in a 62 minute dive!

There’s been some amazing marine life around a Banded Sea Krait, a couple of beautiful cuttlefish, a tiny little Harlequin shrimp,   

Lamai Scuba Divers: Septembers Diving

Lamai Scuba Divers: Septembers Diving: September was a busy month for us, with loads of dives at Sail Rock to see the Bull Sharks – with a few very close encounters. Paul and ...

Septembers Diving

September was a busy month for us, with loads of dives at Sail Rock to see the Bull Sharks – with a few very close encounters.

Paul and Beer are now Advanced Open Water divers! We had a great couple of days at Sail Rock (with the Bull Sharks) and Koh Tao. So congratulations and hopefully next time we’ll find a whale shark!

Simon has one more day of diving to do and then he’ll also have passed his Advanced course.

We have had a couple of Open Water courses, congratulations to Liam! Just at the end of September Colin started his Open Water, he has finished his theory so now to get in the water.

Davie was back this month to do a few fun dives and he has started on his Advanced Open Water! We have to mention that he managed to get to 30m and still had a dive time of 40 minutes! Everyone not only on our boat but all the boats at Sail Rock knew just how happy he was with that dive!

Magic and Andrew came diving with us that day too, Andrews first dive out in the open ocean and everyone had an awesome day.

Jason came out diving for 3 days with us we went to Koh Tao for a couple of days and then took him to Sail Rock to have a look at our favourite sharks.

We also had Pavel and his girlfriend do a day of Discover Scuba Diving, they both loved it and hopefully this is the start for them getting the diving bug!

Congratulation to Deborah who is now a certified Divemaster she passed with flying colours even the stress test once again Deborah well done and my you have some fantastic diving adventures.  

Diving in Thailand

We have had a few very exciting sightings this month:

Dawn and Reece came out to Koh Tao with us for a couple of fun dives, they then booked up for another day of diving after they heard about the Sail Rock bull sharks and struck gold when it made an appearance for them – Something they won’t forget for a long time. Aldo was back again this year to do a day of diving with us and picked the right day since just as we were descending a Whale Shark swam over to say hello, slowly swimming in front of us before circling back and swimming right beneath our feet. 

Congratulations to Luca who is now a certified Open Water Diver. His first day in the swimming pool was brilliant and he was a natural on his Open Water dives. We went to Koh Tao for our first day diving, the site was Aow Leuk . Mina joined us for the Open Water dives, even spotting a lionfish hiding under the coral. 

Then on our second day we dived at Sail Rock where we were lucky enough to come up close to a Bull Shark which definitely got all our adrenaline pumping.

As of August 18th Julien is now a certified Open Water Diver. His first day of Open Water diving was at Mango Bay and then Shark Island, where we saw Batfish, Barracuda, Triggerfish and a Blue Ringed Angelfish. His skills were brilliant and he was relaxed underwater so today we went to Sail Rock to finish off his Open water course. Once again we managed to find the Bull Shark that’s been hanging out for the past couple of weeks. 

Towards the end of the month we have had a couple more certifications so congratulations to Abhi and Anu who are now both PADI Open Water Divers

We’ve also had loads more sightings of the now infamous bull sharks who seem to be sticking around for a while!

Mo, Stig and David Padi Open Water Course

Congratulation to Mo, Stig and David for passing there open water Course. Teaching these guys was a great pleasure and good fun. The day in the pool was great with brilliant sunshine and temperature in its 30c plus, after showing them how to set up the equipment and buddy checks we jump in to the pool and started to do the skills. After a few minutes they soon got a grasp the way things work.

 The first days diving was at Mango Bay in Koh Tao, where we started from the beach and slowly went down to a depth of 9mtrs. The second dive was done at Twins where the visibility was about 8mtrs. Here we did some of the skills we praticed in the swimming pool and I must say they did them like a seasoned divers.

The next day we head of out to Sail Rock to do the last two dives. Once there we did our buddy checks and in we went, the visibility wasn't great but we did two great dives. A great time had by all and three new divers enter the diving world  will done guys and hope to see you soon.

Well done to Paul and Beer for completing there Padi open water course. They did there first to dives at Koh Tao at Mango Bay then at Lighthouse, on there last dive at Twins we en counted a Turtle which dive the dive.