Our most recent Advanced student...

Harsha has just done his Advanced Open Water Speciality Course. He wasn't even sure if he should do the course here on the Similans when we first talked. I said it was expensive to do the course in Khao Lak but a very good place to do it.

He went forth with high spirits and hopes (and a loan from mum!). He ended up being the only student on the course, so he was pretty lucky to be 1 on 1 with Ali the whole time.

Spread over three days, his course featured the highlights of the area;

One day on the Similans
One day on Koh Bon
One day on one of our local wrecks - Bon Soong.

Of course the high points....


Manta Rays! Here is a picture with Ali posing. He said they saw 5 or 6 on the first dive. Not bad. But luckily this was his photography dive, so he had the camera for the day, and whipped out a couple more nice pictures....

Here's another with Ali pretending to be Cobia. There was a pretty heavy thermocline so plenty of plankton at depth, but hey...that's what feeds them!

Of course there was plenty of other stuff to see, like this lionfish....


Click on it for a bigger picture (you can do that for all of them)

But here's them heading back to the boat....




Another successful day for Khao Lak's finest dive center - Wicked Diving!!!


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