Divemaster Graduation!!!!

The second group of our Professional Level Divemaster Trainees of the season started in half of November and the first one to finish the course was Nicole Gerschel. She came on our liveboardtrip as a guest, decided to stay a bit longer and ended up doing her Stress & Rescue Specialty, First Aid course and SSI Dive Control Specialist course. So roughly 6 weeks later, after a lot of studying, pool practice and of course loads of diving, she finally did her final day: the DMT day!!! On this day she took out our longtail to one of the local wrecks: the Premchai. Two other DMT's were on the boat to finish their mapping and one very special guest: Open Water Marcel, from Holland. First dive went great and during the surface interval the group had planned to do a beach clean up on Khao Nayak. This is the entry and exit point to the Tublamu Harbour and all the liveaboards and daytrip boats pass it when they go out to the Similans. There is a lot of rubbish however, but since no-one is really visiting this beach it doesn't really get looked after too well. Since Wicked Diving believes that we shouldn't only take care of the beaches we visit, but also other places, we decided to do a clean up here.

It didn't take long to fill up all of the bags we brought and we didn't manage to get all the litter of the beach, but at least it's a start. Luckily the beach clean-up ties in very well with the education of the Burmese Children at GHRE, since this weeks topic was: recycling. So we decided to bring on of the bags to the school, so the children can see with their own eyes what kind of litter ends up in the seas. Next week we will arrange two boats to Khao Nayak and we will take all the children out for a bigger and more complete clean-up.

The second dive of the day is one of our new "favourite" dive sites: our muck dive at Khao Nayak, just in front of the beach. In the past we have seen seahorses, boxer shrimp and even a pine apple fish there. This time no seahorse, but we did manage to find some really beautiful pipefish and a Janolus Nudibranch. Great day, great dives and another great Divemaster course finished!


Similan Diving