Departed
Returned
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Khao Lak, Thailand
Dives
14 dives

Similan Liveaboard Trip 018
Trip 18 is back and it was a cracker. Good folk on the boat, great diving, delicious food and my first trip in a while with favourable weather conditions. All in all a wonderful time out in the Andaman Sea.
Day One and dive one was a proper new moon drift dive with the current taking us from East of Eden right up to Deep Six. With large tidal movements I worried we would be fighting the currents all trip, especially at Koh Tachai Pinnacle but after that first dive we were hardly troubled again. Elephant Head Rock was easy enough and Three Trees was a leisurely drift along the reef.
Christmas Point on day two and the current was pumping again but we were cautious diving the site after checking the tides. It didn’t pose any problems and we were able to start the day well. Koh Bon was busy with the Lunar New Year crowds but we learnt from this and timed our dives at Koh Tachai Pinnacle to avoid the masses best we could. Two more excellent Tachai dives!
Richelieu Rock on day three was busy and unfortunately busy with some poorly led groups, but once we’d guessed the other boat’s schedules we managed an amazing dive four with the rock to ourselves. Probably dive of the trip for me. Good visibility, hardly any current and so much fish life, WOW !
Day four at Koh Bon, once more finishing the trip with another amazing dive two at Koh Bon Pinnacle. There seems to be such high productivity in the waters around the pinnacle this season. A real pleasure to dive there.
Thank you to everyone who joined us, hope you all had a good time onboard the MV Blue Dolphin. Congratulations all our new Nitrox divers, Ranee, Peter, Mike and Matt, well done guys. Thanks to Sam too for my intro into side mount diving, was really fun to try something new and with your guidance easy too.
Until the next time, Team Big Blue out.
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