I ended having a great sleep and Jacinta ended up sleeping for 13hours straight and I let her sleep because she was so tired the day before. It gave me a chance to catch up on my share trading anyway. She finally woke up and we decided to get a Tuk tuk into China town to have a look around and also to buy myself a compass and a watch from when I drowned it back on Ko Phangan. At first it drove me crazy not having a watch but after awhile I got used to it and began to except that I really didn’t need to know the time at all. It’s the longest I’ve ever gone without needing the time and the only reason I bought a watch was for the alarm to get ... read more

Back on the boat early again and I forgot to wish my beautiful sleeping wife Happy anniversary before I left. We were heading out to Chumporn pinnacle again this time armed with an underwater camera. We jumped in and the Vis was 18m and very very clear, we descended down into the clear blue deep as and taking photos all the way down to 27m again to start our dive and slowly spiralling our way up around the reef. It was hard to see any colours from that depth and the light was rather poor from an overcast day but we all tried our best to the perfect pictures possible. Once again we meet up with the local bull shark that roams this reef and it was impossible to get decent shot in the dark water. ... read more

We got up at 7:30 to catch the boat, I had another shit night sleep because my neck still has not recovered from previous travels and the excitement of the dive got the better off me. Today was a dive at Chumporn Pinnacle around 6km offshore 30m deep but we only dived to 18m. It was great to see all the fish including big potato cod, groper, barracuda, trevally, angel fish, bat fish, clown fish, trigger fish, parrot fish and the list goes on. The largest fish we saw in the water was a 2.5m Bull shark and it was impressive to see the size and power of such a graceful animal. This Visibility was around 15m and there were allot of divers in the water training. It was different to the last dives and the ... read more

We started our theory at 8:30 in the morning and reviewed last night’s answers. One of the Irish fella’s that was doing the course with us tick yes to Asthma and even though he had no had an attack for 10 years they ended up not letting him dive. By 12:30 we were going through all the dive gear and in 30min we were in the pool going through basic techniques and safety drills. We finished in the 3m deep pool after 4hours and I felt great and ready to get wet in the ocean. I found all the drills very easy and comfortable, out of three of us one had trouble with everything and we continuously waited for him to get everything right. It didn’t matter because I was happy just being on the bottom ... read more

We were at jetty at 5:00am. I had broken sleep all night and the only real position I called comfortably remain in was straight on my back with my arm draping down beside the life Jackets I was lying on. Everything was hurting and stiff and my neck muscles where that sore that I had to take Nurofen for the headache. A little Thai man held a sign up for everyone one our bus and within minutes we were taking off at break neck speed down the highway for our visa run to the Malaysian border. It was almost impossible to sleep in the van and we felt every bump sitting in the back. On the way we stopped at several places and on one place we pulled out from the parking lot and the guy ... read more