Amazing group one more time on this cruise in the Mergui Archipelago!
We had the pleasure to welcome on board: Ashley and Keith from the USA; Nikki from Netherlands; Päivi from Finland; and last but not  least ;) Dominique, Geneviève, Bruno and Alex from France!
All of them have deeply fallen in love with these beautiful islands and their surrounding waters.

Every new landscape, every new dive site was ... "magnifique", amazing, incredible!

And that's true, no need for words ... don't you think? 

Between the dives, island hopping to deserted islands ...

​Dream isolated bungalows ...

But mainly, on this trip, the main attraction was the New Game on board thanks to Dominique ... called the "Pan Pan"! Quite an addictive one ;)
​Dominique, Nikki and Sofi got caught!

White tip sharks, huge marbled rays, octopusses, turtles ... as beautiful as always! But this week our special one was ...

A Nautilus enjoying a funny ride with a jellyfish!
Thanks Päivi for the picture ;)

At night time, our dancing queen Nikki was always on the moove!
Ready to dance?

Nice sunsets ... never enough!

And the food ... quoting Dominique: "It's not only organic, it is also orgasmic!" Thanks to our fanstastic Chef Chewi!

A great crazy team always ready to make your journey the best one ...

And a very safe serious Captain!

And for the courses, this week the winner was .... Alexandre Cohen! Not only he did his Open Water course, but also the Advanced one; and he couldn't stop so he passed his Nitrox certification ... and then finally, the cruise was over ;)

Congratulations also to Geneviève for her Nitrox certification; Bruno for the Deep Specialty; and Ashley and Keith for their Deep Adventure dive.

Special thought to Ashley and Keith who were starting a one year trip with us ... hope you'll have great moments, discover fantastic places and meet amazing people! One thing is sure, you'll never be the same after ;)
Have fun!

After one month, we were back to the Surin and Similans Islands !
With an international team again: Neta and Gil from Israel; Pie and Charlie from England; Reinhart and Charlotte from Belgium; Alain from Switzerland; Christian, Dominique, Morgan and Luce from France.
Congratulations to Dominique, Reinhart and Charlotte for their Advanced certifications; and Neta for her Adventure Deep Dive. And also Luce who is continuing her divemaster training!
Kohl's rays, barracudas and trevallies schools all around ...
Koh Tachai was amazing as always with huge colorful seafans everywhere!
It has been a ray and octopus festival ...

And also Maldives sponge snails, turtles ...

And always the sunsets ... 

Wow! a new word guiness record in diving today!
Ahmed Gabr went to 332 metres in Egypt today! crazy!!!!
Congratulation courageous man!

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26th of December, the weather doesn’t allow us to go all the way to Koh Bon, so we decide to go to Richelieu  Rock. Although the dive site is amazing, we still have the mantas in our minds…

The rock is coverd by redish soft corals, Huge school of yellow fusiliers make it fun to swimm through them, barracudas cruising around and giant trevalis hunting in the blue, very nice.

Lower down there are 3 cuttle fish fighting for 1 female it’s mating time…

29th of December, we are back to Burma, which I particularely like because (but not only) we are always alone on every dive site!

25th of December, Christmas day… I wish to get some Mantas for this upcoming dive! We go to Koh Tachai pinnacle. That’s a cleaning station very famous for Mantas sighting, let’s keep our fingers crossed…

As soon as we hit the water, they are there! Finally, that’s the first time of the season that we see them… 2 of them are flying around us passing by again and again, There are so many fish to look at but we can’t get our eyes off the mantas, they are so gracious and so big absolutely fantastic. When the time is up we head towards the mooring line but we don’t want to get out of the water as long as we still have a bit of air in our tanks, we keep staring at them, and as if they felt flattered they come around us just so we can enjoy the show a little bit longer… What a dive!

You might have heard the news of a new tsunami coming into Thailand. An earthquake off the coast  of Sumatra, around the same place than in 2004 and some were expecting a tsunami of the same dimension to touch Thailand.

We heard the news over the radio, Pong came to tell us the news and we immediately cancelled the following dives for the day and left the island side for a deeper sea.

We immediately felt quite safe, knowing a wave doesn’t break until it reaches shallower grounds but we felt quite worried about what we would find back on the land.

Our phones didn’t have much connection but just enough to reassure the family members which needed it most.

News were slow to come over the radio, in Thai and then in English. We first heard of the earthquake, followed by a rumor of a 18m wave, 30 minutes later we listened in silence the news of the wave reaching Phuket and Koh Lanta and only 20 minutes later were we reassured of minimal damage. We were waiting to see the wave pass us by but to no avail. After two hours of stress, we set the cap to Richelieu Rock and celebrated onboard the good news: No Tsunami, we are the Tsunami survivors!!!