First dive of the season

It was funny and exciting. All our staff agree - our favorite site is Bon soong.

Yes, it has poor visibility, there is very little coral and it's nothing like the Similans, but man this site packs a wallop.

We, of course, went with our man Cap'n Jack. He is one of the most amazing, positive people we know. He is hilarious and honest and a damn good human. He also avoids smiling on camera because he has no teeth. But believe me he is smiling and laughing 95% of the time.


This time, the site was hidden! Over the rainy season it has not been dived, and the local fisherman (boo) have either cut or broken the marker buoys.

So when we arrived, we wandered around for quite a while looking for some sign of the wreck. Eventually we asked another fishing boat, and the brought us to a piece of water. Said it was here! It looked like a likely piece of ocean for a shipwreck to be in (?)

We jumped in, searched for for 30 minutes, found some tires and shells.

We talked to a different fishing boat. They had no clue where we were. Didn't care.

Finally we did some guesswork, dead reckoning, and decided to do a massive line sweep - almost 70 meters long. By sheer chance we happened to find it! We marked the site, put up a small buoy and got ready for our dive.

Some of us look very good in our diving gear and aren't afraid to show off a bit.



On the other hand some people look like total dick-heads.



you decide



But the site is a year older, rusted through in a few places, bits and pieces fallen off. Still very much the incredible site that we love.



We were a bit depressed by one of our favorite corners. Famous for the stone fish and ghost pipefish - it was hit hard by fishing nets. We pulled off a big one, but there is a lot more to go.

Oddly enough, we had Bruno, representative from Greenfins on the boat. Even with fishing nets, we still blew Koh Tao out of the Water.


Anyhow - the site is marked, we had a great day. Perfect way to begin the season.

Tomorrow - Marcel's report from the Similans...

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