Similan Liveaboard - November 19th-21st with Wicked Diving

Another day, another liveaboard! With Captain Kaew at the helm, P’Toon and P’Nuk helping out to make sure we get to and from the Similans safely, and 13 excited guests aboard the Angel Parinee we headed out to the Similan Islands for 3 days of beautiful diving & delicious food!

Karin and Nina dove with Peter, Jui, Martijn, Elles and Unto, ably assisted by Dive Control Specialist Trainees Mads and Maria who were on their final liveaboard of the DCT course. Invaluable on the trip, they helped out with giving dive site briefings, guided guests round the dive sites of the Similans, and we also tested them on their rescue abilities with a practice rescue situation on the liveaboard.

Tuk was diving with Gian and Paulo from Italy, and they started off the second day nicely with a sighting of a leopard shark at north point. North Point was unanimously voted the best dive of the trip, with something funky for everyone to see, different sharks and mantis shrimps, turtles up in the shallow reef, and the stunning topography of the huge boulders down in the deeper parts of the dive site. Rick took Artsi, Birgit, Colby and Trisha out for their Adventure Deep dive, and then later that day for an Adventure Night, and they all got to experience diving at depths greater than the 18metres they were used to – always new things to learn and experience on the Parinee!

Natalia and Dirk were snorkelling on this trip – the Similans has plenty to see from below the water but also fro a birds eye view! Snorkelling the Similan Islands is a fantastic way to see the colourful reef life, especially on the gorgeously sunny days we had on the trip! Green turtles swimming along blissfully unaware that you’re watching them from above, plentiful reef fish, and a blacktip reef shark at Koh Bon – a successful snorkelling trip for sure!

Hawksbill turtles for the divers at East and West of Eden, and plenty of the cephalopods on this trip too, lots of octopus and cuttlefish sightings – these animals are wonderful to watch, they’re so interactive, and many’s the time you find yourself just hovering for 15 minutes of the dive watching them play!

Tuk and Mads were having a good time on the Parinee for sure, as they entertained the guests to a bit of dancing on the dive platform throughout the trip – werewolf also managed to keep everyone very busy for an evening as everyone tried to work out who the real werewolves were – you guys are getting too good at this game!

Some incredible sunrises on this trip – another fab thing about liveaboard diving is experiencing life from the boat – no daily transfers, you get to wake up with the sun over the islands, listen to the waves against the boat during breakfast as you head to the next divesite, it’s all about the relaxed pace on the boat – remember you’re on holiday!

Khao Lak Diving