Manta Queen III

A couple of days ago Khao Lak Scuba Adventures said goodbye to the daytrip boat M/V Seahorse. It will be replaced by brand new M/V Manta Queen III which is being built at the moment and will be ready for the next season in October 2010.

The Steel Boat will be permanently at the Similan Islands and our guests will be transferred there daily by speedboat with the option of staying overnight in one of the comfortable new cabins.

Manta Queen III will offer a wide range of options, such as daytrips from Khao Lak or the flexible 2 day/1 night or 3 day/2 night trips. Discover Scuba Diving, Open Water Diver, the Advanced Course and a wide range of Specialties are offered for future divers or those who would like to improve their knowledge.

As a new feature on our daytrips also Nitrox will be available on Manta Queen III as well as the Nitrox Course.

WHALES UNDER THREAT!

WHALES UNDER THREAT!

season starts to end :-(

time seems to run, only a couple of weeks left of this season! When did March pass by and when was february???

Anyway we had an awesome season so far and right now it looks like the Similan Islands saved the best for last. The Whalesharks are at Richelieu and at Koh Tachai even the Minky Whales are passing by. Not to forget about the groups of Manta Rays at Koh Bon and the leopard sharks, ghoastpipefish and Nudis at the Similans.... what more to say? Let's hope the last days stay as wicked as the last ones!

Sea Shepherd

awesome work!

assault on the world record

Phuket Gazette Saturday, March 6 2010

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Phang Nga Province, Phuket's immediate neighbor to the north, is asking divers from all over Thailand to pack their fins, tanks and regulators and head to a diving festival in Thai Muang District on April 3, when there will be an assault on the world record for a mass dive.

Thai Muang is about a one hour drive from Phuket Town.

The festival is organized by ‘Have a Good Dream Co Ltd’, who produce The One Ruam Thai Jai Diew Gan program seen on Thai TV Channel 9, which will televise the mass dive nationwide.

The event was moved up to April 3 after the province became aware that HRH Princess Chulabhorn Valayalaksana would be visiting a group of rural doctors in Thai Muang’s Tambon Lam Phi on the originally scheduled date of April 6.

The mass dive will take place starting at 11am off Thai Muang Beach.

It is hoped that over 3,000 divers will attend the record breaking attempt.

Phang Nga Governor Yiamsuriya Palusuk announced the event at Phang Nga Provincial Hall on Thursday and the date change was announced yesterday.

The current world record for a mass dive is held by Indonesia, where 2,486 divers took a simultaneous plunge off North Sulawesi during a festival in August last year.

Under Guinness Book rules, all divers need to descend to a depth of at least 10 meters and stay submerged for one minute.

International news outlets including Reuters, CNN and NHK will be invited to cover the event, Gov Yiamsuriya said. The Gazette's PGTV also plans to be there to ensure airing on Phuket's provincial cable channels.

To entice as many divers as possible to attend, free accommodation will be provided in Thai Muang and 50% discounts will be available from hotels and resorts in Khao Lak.

There will also be free transport to the festival from Bangkok aboard air-conditioned buses.

If the record is broken, all those taking part will receive certificates and their names will be recorded for posterity in the Guinness Book, which will have an adjudicator present.

For more information, contact
Phang Nga Provincial Public Relations Office: 076-411388

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Khao Lak Scuba Adventures and Oxygene Diving

since January this year, Khao Lak Scuba Adventures joined the Oxygene Group, a group of dive centers, dive shops and Liveaboards around the globe, assuring a certain standart to their customers.

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pics from germany

how fast time goes by....

amazing, my last blog entry is nearly four weeks ago, and so many things happened so fast! While the Whaleshark and the Manta Rays appeared at the Similan Island, while Manta Queen 1 and Manta Queen 2 were coming back with the most stunning pics... in the meantime some of us were in Winter Wonderland Germany, attending the Boat Exhibition in Duesseldorf. We had an awesome time in Duesseldorf, met so many people, made new friends, learned new things...

One of the stories from was: http://www.aqua-med.de provided for all the exhibition halls heart defibrillators. These are supposed to be very easy to handle, so also not trained persons can help in case of emergency. There are patches to be attached to the affected person. Than go away from the person and switch the defibrillator on. The machine than starts automatically to measure if it is necessary to shock or not.

On Saturday in one of our neighbour halls a man had a heart attack. Another visitor, not trained at all, took the defibrillator and simply followed the three on the machine described steps; patches, go away, switch on. The man´s heart had already stopped, so the defibrillator shocked a couple of times. After a few minutes the emergency team arrived and overtook.

The man is alive, he will be fine and the emergency team said, that were would have been no chance to survive for this man without the interaction if the visitor and the defibrillator.

Good job visitor and aqua med!

http://www.dive-news.net/videos?task=videodirectlink&id=176

BOOT 2010 the preparations

from the 22.01. till 31.01.2010 Khao Lak Scuba Adventures will be present at the BOOT 2010 in Duesseldorf.

At the moment we are trying to think about what we need to take there, to do there... We are really looking forward to this!!!

new pics from Manta Queen II

task force 'movie'

We were planning to make a video about… well about everything, the shops, the boats, the diving, how a typical day looks like… everything. Underwater stuff was kind of easy, but for the rest we had no material. So we were trying to hire a videographer, simple like that! Unfortunately we are in peak season and all the videographers are very busy, and we had a delivery date.

Doesn’t matter, we can do that on our own! So we borrowed a camera (thanks a lot for that!) and started filming… Hmmmm… looks not really nice… we need some more action, we need actors!

During the next three days Sarah and Dave turned into the honeymoon couple Suzanne and Andrew (for friends Suzi and Andi), they arrived at their Hotel, checked in, got divorced and Andi became a Divemaster over night. That’s how things happen in real life, yes!

We were really surprised about how many problems we were facing all of a sudden; the hotel pool looked really ugly because there was a big cloud, for night shots we would have needed more light, everything in the shadow looked grey, the outside boat shots were a disaster; there were a lot of waves, the dingi was shaking, sun behind the boat, tiny water spots on the lens… and and and! It just didn’t end.

After three days of filming we were really fed up with it and very sure that all we made is not usefull. But after watching it all over again we were surprised that maybe some stuff could be pretty good.

We sent the material to the editing company, it will take some more time before we will see the result… can’t wait!!!

mission dive courser accomplished!