Blogs from Ko Nang Yuan, South-West Thailand, Thailand, Asia

On the 2nd of August I finally started my Advanced course. I meet Rhys at the pier at 8.30 to go straight to Nangyuan Island, where i would stay for 2 days whilst I was doing the course. As soon as we had the equipment ready we did the first dive, underwater navigation and how to use a compass. It's a very useful skill underwater as i think it is very easy to get lost down there, so it was a very interesting dive and managed to do a perfect square underwater. Then immediately after we did the underwater naturalist, where i learn about the underwater environment but also some fish identification so that I can finally put names to the fishes and corals (and to the photos). Then that same night I did another dive, ... read more

J took advantage of the low prices for scuba diving in Thailand and got his Advanced Open Water Diver certification while we were on Koh Nangyuan. He did 8 dives in 4 days and had a blast with Attilla, his Hungarian instructor, and his Australian dive buddy, Greg. They did two 30 meter (100 foot) deep dives, a night dive, and several others. The deep dives were around a pinnacle far from land, so large schools of barracuda, tuna and trevally were passing by, intermittently being picked off by eight 1.5 meter grey reef sharks. One of the other divers got some great shots and movies with his underwater camera of sharks circling us, so J hopes to post those soon. It may have been the nitrogen narcosis, but the sharks were more beautiful than scary; ... read more