Wicked Diving Christmas on the Parinee

White Christmas on the Similan Islands
(White Sand Christmas that is...)

Starting with the first dive at the Boonsung Wreck close to Khao Lak with thousands and thousands of Barracudas circling us we were off to a great start. We eventually missed the bigger creatures at Koh Bon that day but with a large Napoleon wrasse, Octopus and a Sea snake every one was happy heading to Koh Tachai for the first night dive of the trip.






The waves did not shake anyone out of bed after an early start of the Parinee when we moved North to Richelieu Rock on Christmas Eve. The experience of two fantastic dives with mating Cuttle fish, Shrimps, Barracudas, Moray eels and never ending shoals of other fish let us forget the sometimes challenging currents. Some of us even got luckey to see a Sea horse. Back at Koh Tachai we had a fantastic dive at the Pinnacle where we watched a feeding frenzy of trevallies and a huge school of Chevron Barracudas circling the Northern Pinnacle. Christmas evening ended with another night dive at Koh Bon and an enormous dinner cooked together by P'Nui and P'Tai.

During our travels we enjoyed playing Rummikub and Yatzi till the late evenings. We will miss the sound of the dices and tiles on the wooden table. Chris' persistence paid out in the toothbrush game when he finally managed to kill Kerry after a 24 hour duel and won the prize for the game.

On Christmas day we did another 4 dives, finding more Octopus, a ghost pipe fish, turtles, Moray eels and other fantastic marine life around the boulder sites of islands 8 and 9. If someone waited for gifts under the Christmas tree then even their wishes got fulfilled. A treasure hunt for oranges made everyone a proud owner of various Wicked items like stainless steel bottles, t-shirts, bottle coolers, mask straps and hand made organic soaps.

We are happy that we could take you all out on this trip and thank the captain and crew who made the travels safe and convenient. We hope you enjoyed the trip as much as we did Thanks again for being such a great fun-loving group of people, you make the trips more of a holiday than a job for us - it was brilliant to meet you all, spend the Christmas days together & get to share the diving experiences with you.

We were honoured that Antoinette chose us as her birthday company - we hope you had a memorable day! Congratulations as well again to Sonia, Dino and Ciaran who passed their SSI Advanced Adventurers with Roland. Two thumbs up!

And to all - a good night!


-Similan Diving

Mantas, Turtles and diving santa's....Wicked Diving Christmas Liveaboard!

Christmas Diving

Christmas is always a special time whether you spend it back home with friends and family or on a Liveaboard on the beautiful Similan Islands. Our special 4 day Xmas trip on Angel Parinee was not an exception.

Santa and his weird friend showed up and gave Pavel Jr a good laugh.
Our awesome cook “ “ prepared a lovely Xmas dinner in the evening much appreciated by everyone.


Day 2 started off with the dive site “Mysterious Point”. The guests got 3 different briefings and had to guess the dive site after coming up from the dive, then we draw a winner and the lucky person was Monika who won a Wicked t-shirt.

The dive site was North Point and it was a beautiful dive where everyone got to see Hawksbill Turtles feeding algees on the coral.


Other diving highlights of the trip was as usual Richelieu Rock where we found Tigertail seahorses, Big school of Barracudas and an unexpected visit of 4 meter wide Manta.


Other special sightings was a Ribbon Eel, Blacktip Reef Sharks, Leopard Shark, biggest Banded Seasnake ever and a big school of Dolphins on the way back to Koh Bon. Also of course people diving with Santa hats.


There were a lot of games going on on the boat. The usual Werewolf of course were Monika were werewolf twice with her defense speech “I don’t really understand this game…”. We had a failed attempt of snowmen competition on the Surin beach, JP was the winner and only competitor while Christine misunderstood the game and made a “snow” turtle instead, Pavel Jr were entertaining everyone with his Jojo.

Pavel Sr took out his toothbrush and finished everyone off real quick in the toothbrush game. Len, Sze Lyn, Ishan and Hamza did the second briefing on Koh Bon. Ishan won the prize for most professional while Len got the entertaining award.
The trip ended after a beautiful dive on the local wreck Boonsung and everyone was satisfied and no one really missed Xmas at home.

Happy Holidays and enjoy your new year!


-Similan Diving

Have a White Christmas - White sandy beaches that is! Thailand Liveaboard

Merry Christmas!

What? Seems too early? Well our holiday trips fill up very quickly, so it's best to register now!

23rd - 26th of December 2009 - 4 days

We carry only 12 guests on our trips, so the groups are small with a relaxed pace and uncrowded dive sites. Each cabin is air-conditioned with sea views and fresh air. There are 3 toilet / hot shower units on the boat and there is a large gear up area and dive deck. A total of 5 boat crew will be waiting on your needs and we also provide at least one dive guide per 4 guests. You will be treated to the best in Thai hospitality and European standards!

When you dive with us you make a difference. Our boat and trucks use only locally produced Biofuel so your money makes a difference in our community. Wicked uses only fair-trade, phosphate-free soaps and detergents on our boats and in our shops so that we don’t affect our environment around us. Your sheets and towels will be 100% fair-trade organic cotton. Also, 10% of all our profits go to local NGO’s as we continually strive to make the world around us better.

Join our staff for our great Christmas Special Liveaboard trip. Our staff are famous for turning these trips into something really special, with gifts, games and funny dress ups. The boat will be decorated in Christmas style and you can expect Santa to visit us again this year and he might even join us for a dive or two! Let's hope he leaves his reindeer at home this time. We always have good food on the trips but in addition our staff will prepare a special delicious Christmas dinner and a Christmas breakfast. And if you behave well on the trip, you might get a nice surprise gift from Wicked Diving. Why not jump to the trip details and booking section?