So much fun on board of the MV Smiling Seahorse for this Full Moon trip with some great divers from Australia, Canada, Switzerland and the US.

With this good weather and flat sea, we reach the banks easily and had 2 amazing day of diving in 40m visibility. We’ve seen loads of sharks, nurse, silver tip, grey reef and some big marbled stingray, a huge mangrove whipray and many kuhl’s stingray.

During the surface interval, we are not in our rest with the visit of a pod of around 20 dolphins.

Back to the archipelago for the macro lovers, we spotted different kind of frogfish, giant and spotfin, plenty of different crabs including a candy crab.
Without forgetting our mascotte, the lovely seahorse which we spotted in multiple divesites in the South of Mergui Archipelago.

And without forgetting the cardinal fish, Franck finally managed to get a shot of this special fish holding its eggs in its mouth !

We changed slightly our itinerary this week to dive on one of our favorite divesite, Dendro’s Peak for the last immersion of the trip. It was a pure festival of fishes and so many rays !
Chevron, yellowtail and great barracuda, big eye, blue fin and golden trivally in big school and the visit from a Mobula during our safety stop ! Just WOW!

Can’t wait for the next trip, more pictures on our facebook page !

Welcome on board for our 6 days/5 nights trip to Burma!

It was very unique as we had the great privilege to welcome on board a famous tv show (50 minutes inside which will be broadcasted by TF1 in France), making a documentary about the beauty of the Mergui Archipelago. They chose our company to introduce the great diving Myanmar has to offer!

We spent the whole day diving with them, having fun and giving some interviews! We will let you know when and where you can see the images very soon!

​Of course we also had a lot of fun underwater! We spotted a multitude of macro-life around Shark Cave dive sites like Tiger Tail Seahorses, a juvenile frog fish and many dancing shrimps

We had great encounters and incredible dives as well around western rocky sites : in 2 days we managed to spot 2 minke whales from the surface, harlequin shrimps, tones of marbled and Jenkins rays, schools of barracudas, octopuses etc...

Congratulations to the Chen family for completing their Nitrox Course!

Keep tuned for more fishy stories and don't forget to book for your next adventure, the season is passing by very quick, only 4 months left!! We are waiting for you !

​The Smiling Seahorse Team

Once more a group of very international guests is ready to join the MV Smiling Seahorse for a week of diving and celebration. Bring it on 2020!

Could we possibly wish a better end to 2019 ?
On the first day of the cruise around South Twin, we had the pleasure to dive 3 times with plenty of Oceanic Mantas!
On the 2nd day we spotted 8 different Seahorses around Shark Cave, Square Rock and Submarine dive sites!
It was also time to say goodbye to 2019 and we celebrated the New Year with a firework and enthusiastic divers ready to party! What a great night we had!!! Dancing the night away in the middle of the Mergui Arquipelago was a night to remember.

We started 2020 with a new adventure. We decided to navigate West to the Burma Banks, some huge flat sandy seamounts in the middle of nowhere! These underwater hills are covered by hard corals, some thousands of years old and so so massive!
Because the floor goes very deep around the banks, it is a great spot to meet with sharks, many sharks and many different sharks.
This time we were in awe to observe a Silvertip Reef Shark, swimming into the blue, and plenty of nurse sharks, chilling on the bottom, hiding below a rock, or cruising around. With a 30m visibility and a cristal blue water, we couldn't have started the year better than that!

We finished this incredible journey around the South West of Mergui Archipelago, we started with Seafan Forest, which was absolutely gorgeous, full of life, from Stone fish to school of Barracudas, Golden trevallies, yellow fin snappers etc...

During the dive we found a big ghost fishing net covering the East part of the reef. The 4 instructors onboard decided to go for an extra dive in between 2 dives and take it off! Ghost nets are not only ugly, they continue to kill fish which will never end in a plate and will just be wasted at the bottom of the ocean. 
Seafan forest is one of our favourite dive sites, we just cannot leave this net there. It was a 20 minutes work for our team of 4, but we managed to remove it all, and to set free a beautiful stone fish caught in the net! It was a great satisfaction for all of us. 

Congratulations to David, Liz, Tav and Schezo for becoming Nitrox divers, and thank you Jeff for coming back, year after year, for now 8 seasons!! 
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Happy New Year to all of you !