Netnawee Similan overnight trip 25/01/08

So the Netnawee set out again, this time with seven divers and one snorkeler on the boat. In this particular trip it turned out to be the snorkeler Laetitia who saw the best bits, with a tally of 6 turtles, 2 leopard sharks and a black tip reef shark she didn't have a bad trip!

On most of the trips there is at least one turtle swimming around the boat at some point. They usually come to the boat as they get food, and lots of people do feed them. The turtles are not stupid and don't turn down an easy meal, on this boat we have a strict policy of NOT feeding any of the life under the surface, most of the food that you feed them is not natural for them... remember pineapples do not grow in the sea!

All the divers were praying that Laetitia wasn't going to see a manta ray instead of them at Koh Bon, and whilst one of these great creatures didn't grace our presence it didn't stop any of the divers from having a fantastic trip and seeing lots of things in the water. shown in the pictures are a porcelain crab on the left and a kuhls ray on the right.

Klaus, Becky and Tuk were joined on this trip by Oscar and Robin (shown in picture with Tuk). Robin has just come back from her recent holiday back home with her family and couldn't wait to get back into the water.

Oscar was also joining the boat for his last trip on Netnawee before he heads home to Sweden, which meant that he just joined us for some fun diving. Oscar has been working on the wicked team for the last 3 months and all his help and hard work has been greatly appreciated by the whole team. Everyone will be sad to see him go and wishes him the best of luck in cold, cold Sweden.

This trip also saw Martin and Rob gain their Advance Open Water certificate so big congratulations to them. Here they both are shown in the picture with Tuk doing their Peak Performance Buoyancy part of the advanced course. Rob is on the left and Martin on the right with Tuk perfectly demonstrating good buoyancy.