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Our next IDC starts on 4th Novemberber 2024, and gives you the opportunity to work the whole season afterwards, either teaching or working on liveaboards.

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Local Dive Sites

There are a 3 great wrecks just off the coast that offer a great ‘half-day’ diving option. These generally leave around 9am and back by around 2pm. The most popular is the Boonsung wreck, locally known as ‘fish soup’ because of the huge numbers of fish to be found. This is in a depth of 17-19 metres, depending on the tide, and so is accessible to all divers from Open Water level upwards.

The Premchai wreck is a bit deeper at 24 metres and so is open to divers who have done their Advanced Open Water Course or Deep Adventure Dive.

The Sea Chart is in 40+ metres with the top of the wreck at 27 metres, so we only recommend this for divers with both their Deep Specialty and their Nitrox Specialty. However, it’s a great place to do your Deep Specialty Course because of it’s depth. The Sea Chart is usually offered as part of a 2-wreck trip with the Premchai being the second dive of the day. Our website is an evolving thing with a life of it’s own, but at the moment we’ve got details about our favourite liveaboard Oktavia.We’ve also listed the beautiful Hallelujah and the Manta Queen fleet that covers a big range of budgets, itineraries and schedules. If you can’t see what you’re looking for then please contact us and we can help you put together exactly the right trip(s) for you.

Day two of the trip

Started with a 6am wake up and our first dive at Elephant Head Rock. Giant granite boulders made up the dive site making quite a few deep channels which is the typical topography of the Similan national park. Blue spotted stingrays were in number on the sand portion of the site. They tried to camouflage themselves in the sand which shocked me as I moved over one it shot out from underneath me! After that dive we went to Donald Duck bay, it was very peaceful at about 8 am but as we left boats upon boats of tourist started to pull up and the beach was flocked by tourists. Lucky we enjoyed whilst it was calm and peaceful. Dive 2 was at North Point which again had many deep channels to swim through. Saw my first Nudibranch (Multi-coloured slug).

Dive 3 of the day and dive 7 of the trip was the most important dive of the trip and the one I had been looking forward to since I came to Thailand. It was at the west ridge of Koh Bon. Yes we saw MANTAS !! I was so happy when I saw my first manta on my video recording you can even hear me screaming. They were so beautiful and elegant as they swept across our paths and did fly-bys that were so magical. The last dive was at Koh Tachai and the phrase that came up so much amongst my group was fish soup. So many fish from small to large predatory barracuda, as we reached our safety stop 3 massive tuna came sweeping past. As we carried on our journey everyone started to get the motto of our boat, “DIVE, EAT, SLEEP, REPEAT!” because that is what our routine became every day.

Day 3 of the trip

Everyone was meshing well and getting into a good routine. Everything we did became so familiar it made the diving so much easier. The first two dives of the day were at Richelieu Rock. As the sun rose during our first dive so did the activity of the rock. We spent a long time looking at some yellow coral for sea horses but unfortunately didn’t see one. On the second dive we saw a pair of cuttle fish mating and the fighting. Made me laugh how much they are like humans. On the third dive of the day we went back to Koh Tachai, started off as a really relaxing dive but about 30 minutes into the dive the current picked up really strong and it became diver soup so not the best dive but it was good fun for the amount of time it lasted. To finish the day off we went to the west ridge of Koh Bon again, unfortunately no mantas but still one of my favourite dive sites. Koh Bon still has a vast wall full of multi-coloured soft coral with glass fish covering it.

The last day

came quick as a flash. Unbelievable how rapid the trip had felt. The first dive of this day was on a pinnacle of the west ridge of Koh Bon called Hin Luang. The pinnacle starts at 18 m and then descends to over 70m and was the most beautiful dive site I have had the pleasure of being on. It is covered in yellow coral that is the home for all fish. This site was made better by the dull orange glow of the sunrise that painted a picture that was unimaginable. At the top of the pinnacle was the best sight too, I saw my first leopard shark!

The second dive again was Koh bon and it was great and saw a white tipped reef shark! The last dive of the day was at the Boonsung wreck on the way back to Tap Lamu pier. This wreck was situated in the shallows near the coast of the mainland at about a depth of 20m. This wreck has made one of the greatest artificial reef on what is a mainly flat sand area. This meant as we got to the wreck there were fish swarming everywhere, at some points there were so many fish I couldn’t even see a meter in front of me.

After the last dive we headed back to the pier. Everyone was talking and having a great time as they reminisced about the past 4 days, boasting about what they saw and saying how they could definitely do the trip again. After we had our final debrief from our trip leader we all cheered for the dive crew and the boat crew because they deserved it and they all put so much effort into the trip. In conclusion this was a fantastic trip that was worth every penny and all the early hours, it is also the most efficient way to go diving with so many dives in such a short space of time. As a result I recommend this live aboard to anyone who loves diving and wants to do many dives in a short space of time.