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Trip report North Andaman from 4th to 8th April 2023

29/5/2023

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Welcome aboard, fellow underwater explorers!

We had another fantastic cruise this week with a very international crowd onboard! Divers from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, America, and Switzerland. We were like the United Nations of scuba diving, ready to conquer the Andaman Sea!

Fish bank on the reef
Trevallies bank
A fishy and amazing dive!
Our journey started in Surin National Park, where we were greeted with crystal clear water and an underwater playground that would make even Ariel jealous. We saw schools of colourful fish, and Richelieu Rock felt like we were in our very own Finding Nemo movie. We navigated overnight towards Koh Tachai and Koh Bon, and boy, were we in for a treat!
The cruise always begin by a little ceremony
The cruise always begin by a little ceremony
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We met 2 oceanic manta rays about 4 meters wide and big blotched fantail ray about 1,5 meters large!

Koh Tachai, also known as "The Island That Time Forgot," is closed to tourists since 2018 to allow the island's coral reefs to regenerate. Luckily for us, we are still allowed to dive around the corner on Koh Tachai Pinnacle, which was like finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow! We saw more marine life than we ever could have imagined and a cute hawkbill turtle came by to say hello! . This time we were part of a National Geographic documentary :)

Koh Bon was our next stop, and it didn't disappoint. We saw oceanic manta rays, and it was like they were putting on a show just for us. It was like watching ballet, but instead of ballerinas, we had these majestic creatures. The dive site was so beautiful that even the fish were taking selfies :)
Koh Bon is the best dive site in Thailand to see Manta rays. Current here can be mild to strong, and this should be taken into account by your guide when selecting the entry and exit point for your dive. There are actually 2 main dive sites here: Koh Bon Pinnacle and the
 ridge at the West of Koh Bon. This is a well known cleaning station where mantas are often spotted gliding slowly in the current...
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This ray was so big!!!
Beautiful Manta ray in the blue
Yet this one was bigger!!! :)
We also did the Backwater dive that night, and it was like we were in a scene from Alice in Wonderland. We saw pelagic snail, day octopus, paper nautiluses, and other creatures that we didn't even know existed. It was like diving into a fantasy world. 
Wonderful baby nautilus
Paper nautilus
Baby octopus
Baby squid in the salp
Another cute baby alien
Cute fish in salp
Our diving adventure took us to Similan National park and Racha Noi next one our way back to Phuket and what a dream come true. We saw everything from Kuhl's stingray, big schools of barracuda, nudibranch, and even wipe coral shrimp. 

The Similan Islands have been made famous for the wealth of their coral reefs teeming with wildlife and usually great diving conditions it is rare to have bad visibility here and both divers and snorkelers can see a number of marine species and brids more diverse than anywhere else. The beach stop are not to shabby either!
Barracudas explosion!
Zanzibar shrimp
We want to thank our international group for choosing The Smiling Seahorse to explore the Andaman Sea. We hope you had a wonderful trip with us and that you have a safe journey back home. We can't wait to see you again because you are now part of our diving family. Keep calm and dive on!
Beautiful moon, beautiful mood!
HAPPY! On the MV Smiling Seahorse
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Trip report North Andaman from the 12th to 17th of March

13/4/2023

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Our guests this week came from France, Austria, Germany and switzerland to dive with us, and we had a blast!

First day of diving, we were at Surin National Park and it was incredible! We saw some reef sharks and a lot of school of fishes.
​The Surin Islands (Thai: หมู่เกาะสุรินทร์, Thai pronunciation: [mùː kɔ̀ʔ sùrin]) is an archipelago of five islands in the Andaman Sea, 60 km from the Thai mainland. Administratively, the islands are part of Tambon Ko Phra Thong, Khura Buri District, in Phang Nga Province, Thailand.
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The following days we were at Similan National Park. The visibility was good about 20 meters +.
The Similan Islands (Thai: หมู่เกาะสิมิลัน, RTGS: Mu Ko Similan, Thai pronunciation: [mùː kɔ̀ʔ si.mi.lan]) is an archipelago in the Andaman Sea off the coast of, and part of, Phang Nga Province in southern Thailand. It was established as Mu Ko Similan National Park in 1982 by the forestry department.

​We saw a group of long nose emperors, group of blue fin trevally, big eye trevally, fusiliers, glass fish everywhere, a group of banner fish, and much more.
School of long nose emperors hunting
School of long nose emperors hunting
School of Travally
School of Travally
For the first dive and the sunset dive, there always have a lot of action. It's the time that all the fishes come out and feed themselves and the dive will always make you think that you are in the heaven (surrounded by tons of fish).
Koh Bon
Koh Bon
Happy divers onboard The Smiling Seahorse
Happy divers onboard The Smiling Seahorse
This trip was amazing, the diving itself, the food, and we’re trying our best to take an excellent service to make our guests have the most wonderful vacation with us… MV The Smiling Seahorse.

Thank you for choosing us.

Hope you all had a good one.

Cheers!!
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Whale sharks expedition, 04th to 12th February 2023

20/2/2023

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This week marked our third collaboration with Thai Whale Sharks, as we welcomed Marine Biologist and the founder of the project, Kirsty Magson onboard for 8 days of diving as we explored the north and south Andaman on the lookout for the world’s biggest fish. Kirsty delivered daily lectures on all things' shark as she educated guests on Whale Shark Ecology, Shark Biology, Threats to Sharks, Ecotourism, Whale Shark Conservation, Whale Shark Feeding and the Process behind Whale Shark ID. The trip was built around dive sites that offered the best chance to spot some of these gentle giants, so a lot of time was spent looking in the blue, but how did we get on?
The sunset and...
The sunset and...
the moon...
the moon...
Departing from Phuket the first stop on the agenda was Koh Haa and Lanta National Park to dive Hin Muang and Hin Daeng. Theses dive sites famous for the Dendronepthya soft corals which give these sites their names offered a lot of very fishy encounters as we were surrounded by schooling jacks, emperor fish and some were lucky enough to find 2 stone fish relaxing on the reef. Unfortunately, no signs of anything big in the blue this day but we did encounter some very large sea hares (Dolabella auricularia).
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dive sites were super fishy
Barracuda's school
Barracuda's school
barrel sponge seascape
school of emperors
Day 2 and 3, we headed to Tarutao National Park, for dives sites such as steps, 8 miles Rock and of course Stonehenge. These 2 days provided us with Frogfish, seahorses, cat sharks, sea slugs, a wide array of hard and soft coral diversity and even a quick hello from another of the gentle giants, the Manta Ray (unfortunately not in front of Franck's lense so no photo...)
Large sea hares (Dolabella auricularia)Flounder perfectly hiding on the sand
Day 4 marked our return to Koh Haa but this time we explored the Cathedral (the perfect place for a photo op) and Chimney before a sunset dive at Shark Point on the lookout for the Leopard Sharks (also called zebra shark). 

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Cathedral, Koh Ha, South Andaman
Koh Ha, South Andaman
Koh Ha, South Andaman
Cute and beautiful... the Zebra shark!Cute and beautiful... Leopard aka Zebra shark!
Across the groups we encountered not 1, not 2 but 3 zebra sharks, so there were many happy faces upon the return to the boat.

leopard shark in thailand 2023
Zebra shark thailand phuket diving
Day 5 and we headed North to the Similans to explore Shark Fin Reef, Elephant Head and Three Trees. Octopus and Ribbon Eels were high on everyone’s list of must-see animals. The Similans also provided an opportunity to jump off the boat and feel sand between our toes as we headed to the beach at…….. and the chance of an encounter with the Nicobar Pigeon. We ended the day with a sunset dive at Koh Bon and a blackwater dive, the first for many aboard (and most certainly not the last) with snake blennies, paper nautilus and so much more being seen.
The next day brought us to Koh Taa Chai, encounters with Black Tip and White Tip Reef Sharks as well as Eagle Rays and the school of Barracuda made for some amazing diving.
Snake blennie
Snake blennie
Baby boxfish
Baby boxfish
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Paper nautilus
Paper nautilus
Day 7 and it was off to Richelieu Rock for 4 dives, and what a day we picked. Conditions were incredible with amazing visibility, low currents and of course some of the best diving in Thailand. The schools of jacks, glass fish, rainbow runners and emperor fish meant there was activity all through the water column and closer to the ground, we found Harlequin Shrimp, Seahorses, Sea Slugs, Peacock Mantis Shrimp and more.
Wonderful Arlequin shrimp on her prey
Wonderful Arlequin shrimp on her prey
Cute Pikachu nudi!
Cute Pikachu nudi!
A cowrie shell in the light...
A cowrie shell in the light...
Beautiful porcelain crab on anemone
Beautiful porcelain crab on anemone
To round off the trip, we ended with 2 dives on the Boonsung Wreck ahead of landing in Khao Lak. The wreck was destroyed in the tsunami, but offers a wide array of marine life living in all the nooks and crannies that can be found. Cat sharks, sea slugs, cuttlefish, and the honeycomb moray eel were favorites of the day and a great way to round off the trip.
Whilst we weren’t lucky enough to encounter any whale sharks on this trip, we were fortunate to enjoy some incredible diving with some amazing marine life. So, until our next adventure, thanks for reading. 
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Diver's love...
Love for the Ocean!
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So happy to dive with The Smiling Seahorse!
So happy diving with you all on The Smiling Seahorse!

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Trip report : Citizen science research trip in North Andaman from 23rd to 29th of November 2022

1/12/2022

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Special trip for special guests coming from Israel, Malaysia, Canada, China, Hong Kong and Thailand. Diving with us and conduct some research on the reef, to understand more about the cleaning stations and the different coral species interactions.
Reef survey
Settled down some cameras
Reef survey
Reef survey
Teira batfish
Teira batfish
One of the main goal of this trip was to locate a cleaning station, we settled down some cameras where we found loads of cleaner wrasse, and leave them during our surface interval, hoping to capture some pelagic images when no divers are diving on the site.
Moray eel
Giant Moray
sea fan
Beautiful Sea fan garden
Cuttlefish
Cuttlefish
Amazing day in Richelieu, dive site is always full of life and specials encounters.
Franck managed to capture on a picture the egg of the clown fish around the anemone, Ghostpipefish, seahorse and the most wanted harlequin shrimps.
Clownfish protecting the eggs on the anemone
Clownfish protecting the eggs on the anemone
Diving in the Similan National Park for the next 4 days, Koh Tachai, Koh Bon and the Similan islands number 7 to 9 were our research field. While the divers examine the reef, we were lucky to see some sharks and rays in the blue and some beautiful Nudibranchia on the reef.
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Snappers
Psychedelic batwing slug nudibranchia
Psychedelic batwing slug
Sea anemones
Sea anemones
Miamira sinuata and Netted Miamira nudibranchia
Miamira sinuata and Netted Miamira nudibranchia
crown of thorns starfish
Crown of Thorns starfish
Halgerda tessellata nudibranchia
Halgerda tessellata
It has been a fascinating trip, the surface interval was busy with some presentation on the different species of coral, their threats and some ecological solution to save our reef !
Happy guests onboard The Smiling Seahorse
Happy guests onboard The Smiling Seahorse
Dedication for the special shrimp we found and were so happy to discover for the first time in the archipelago..... the..... hairy..... shrimp ! Well done Camille !
Hairy Shrimp -Pphycocaris Simulan
Hairy Shrimp -Pphycocaris Simulan
Thanks to all of you for being part of the cruise, hope you enjoyed your time with us and wish to see you again soon on board of the MV Smiling Sea Horse.
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Trip report: South to North Andaman cruise from the 14th to 21st of November 2022

23/11/2022

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Andaman cruise trip report
Another great trip diving in the Andaman Sea in Thailand. 14 guests from all around the world embark with a big smile on the boat in Phuket and happy to start cruising South. 
trevallies jackfish
School of trevallies
Coral reef Tarutao National Park
Coral reef Tarutao National Park
Spadefishes Batfishes
Spadefishes (Batfishes)
Congratulations to Sari from Finland and Blake from Australia, our two students from this trip, started straight away to study and managed to be certified Advanced Open Water Diver and Nitrox Diver after few days only !
Stonehenge coral reef
Amazing soft coral reef of Stonehenge - Tarutao National Park
Thank you to Koh Lipe and its beautiful dive sites and their beautiful creatures.
We were lucky to discover a stone fish, two frog fish, plenty of coral catsharks, seahorses, razor fish and some colorful Nudibranchia.
Catshark
Coral catshark - Talang Steps Tarutao National Park
Stonefish
Stonefish - Synanceia
Occelated Frogfish
Occelated Frogfish at 8 Mile Rock
nudibranchia
Chelidonura Punctata nudibranchia
Time to cruise North and look on and in between the big granite boulders of the Similan National Park. Another frog fish, a ribbon eel, a curious eagle ray and some black tip reef sharks were spotted in the middle of millions of fishes swimming above the reef. 
Granite boulders Similan
Granite boulders - Similan Islands
Ribbon eel
Ribbon Eel
Yellow Warty Frogfish
Yellow Warty Frogfish
The Blackwater dive from this trip was great, and we spotted many tiny and strange critters.
Amphipods salp
Amphipods on salp
crab
Unidentified crab
Flounder
Juvenile Flounder
Pencil squid
Pencil squid
Pelagic Sea snail
Pelagic Sea snail
Squirrelfish
Squirrelfish - Holocentridae
Shrimp
Unidentified Shrimp
Grouper
Grouper Larv
Tube Anemone
Pelagic Larval Stage of a Tube Anemone
Tiger Tail Mantis Shrimp
Tiger Tail Mantis Shrimp larvae
Back to the limestone type of rock with the famous Richelieu Rock and its school of barracudas, trevallies, emperor for four dives. You don't know where to look, in the blue for the dancing fishes, on the reef, covered by thousands of glass fish, for the beautiful peacock mantis shrimp, ghost pipefish and seahorse. 
peacock mantis shrimp
Peacock Mantis shrimp
Lobsters
Lobsters
Two-spot Red Snapper
Two-spot Red Snapper
Ornate ghost pipefish
Ornate ghost pipefish
Thank you for this amazing trip and looking forward for the next one already.
The Smiling Seahorse
Happy guests onboard The Smiling Seahorse
barrel sponge
Beautiful Barrel sponge
Koh Haa
Koh Haa
Table coral
Table coral
Glassfishes
Diver surrounding by Glassfishes
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Trip report from our North to South Andaman cruise from 4th to 11th of November 2022

14/11/2022

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Welcome to 72 Aquatics from Tucson, Arizona for this great trip.

trip report north to south andaman
We had the pleasure to welcome this group, all the way from the United States to dive with us in the beautiful Andaman Sea of Thailand. Checking in on the MV The Smiling Seahorse and starting this trip in Ranong, we cruised to the South of the country and dove the best dive sites of the Andaman Sea from Myanmar's border all the way to the Malaysian border.
Snappers bluefin trevally
Snappers and bluefin trevally
Trevallies hunting
Trevallies hunting
Lobsters
Lobsters
bAfter our check dive on the north of Surin, we headed to the famous and beautiful Richelieu Rock for the rest of the day! Loads of glass fishes, trevallies, barracudas and bat fishes were swimming around us and the purple rock.
When we looked closer on the reef, we found a seahorse, two baby ghosts pipes fish and the first pair of harlequin shrimps of the season!
Ornate ghost pipefish
Ornate ghost pipefish
Time to head for the Similan National Park and dive there for a couple of days. Colorful Nudibranchia and their eggs were found on the big boulders of granite. A huge and old green turtle came to visit us during our surface interval, and some guests were happy to swim with it for a while.
Psychedelic Batwing slug
Psychedelic Batwing slug
Nudibranchia eggs
Nudibranchia eggs
Netted Miamira nudibranchia
Netted Miamira nudibranchia
Green sea turtleA friendly green turtle came to say hi in the Similans
After those two great days of diving, it was time to navigate south overnight to Hin Daeng and Hin Muaeng: two dives sites of Lanta National Park. Time to change the types of rocks we are diving on and explore a pinnacle made of limestone and basalt with a full mix of soft and hard corals.

Schooling bannerfish
Schooling bannerfish
Lunar eclipse
Lunar eclipse
We celebrate the full moon and witnessed the lunar eclipse from the boat, while some of the guests were trying to blackwater dive for their first time and loved it.
Pelagic Larval Stage of a Tube Anemone - Ceriantharia
Pelagic Larval Stage of a Tube Anemone - Ceriantharia
The Pumpkin afloat
The Pumpkin afloat
Flounder
Larval Flounder
Zoanthid larva - Zoantharia - Cnidaria
Zoanthid larva - Zoantharia - Cnidaria
Larval Amphipod
Larval Amphipod
Sea butterfly
Sea butterfly
Next day we went close to the Malaysian border and dive the underwater pinnacle of 8 Mile Rock and around Koh Lipe at the famous soft coral garden of Stonehenge. We found a frog fish, indian walkman and some cute cuttlefish.
Occelated Frogfish
Occelated Frogfish
After this great day of diving, we headed back toward Koh Lanta National park to dive on Koh Haa and ended the trip with Phi Phi for the last day of the trip.
Thanks again to 72 Aquatics Tucson for joining us on this amazing trip. We are looking forward to diving with you again very soon!
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6th April 2022: South Andaman dive trip report

12/4/2022

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Heading back South Andaman after a month in the north Andaman. Was great!...

6th April North Andaman dive trip report
It is with 11 guests that we are setting sails. Four of them are return guests, which is for us the best review we can hope for! Among them, Pook is taking her photo skills to a new level and signed up for a full on photo coaching with Alex for the whole trip, while Nicolas is getting started with his brand new TG6 and signed up for 4 dives photo coaching with Franck.
After about one month spent in the northern part of the Andaman Sea, this week we are taking you back to the southern Andaman, going all the way to Koh Lipe, near the Malaysian border.
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A great diving days ending with cocktails and barbecue
A great diving days ending with cocktails and barbecue
South Andaman Island
South Andaman Island
The trip started from Phuket and after everyone checked in we enjoyed our first shared diner and started cruising toward Koh Haa, where we planned to have our first dive the next morning.
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The first dive to be the  check dive we picked the Laguna and had a nice and relaxed dive to start with allowing everyone to get back into diving mood and getting comfortable with the gear again…
We then went further south to Hin Daeng and Hin Muang for the rest of the day. Even though this is a famous dive site for manta sighting we were not lucky enough to spot one, but instead we were the happy witnesses of a big underwater ballet where the actors were trevallies, mackerels and tunas hunting into massive bait balls of glassfish moving like clouds again and again.
Divers under a boat with cool sunbeam
Divers under a boat with cool sunbeam
Lovely jelly fish and banner fish feeding on its tentacles
Lovely jelly fish and banner fish feeding on its tentacles
Tonight is the blackwater dive as well, off of hin Daeng we are very excited as the previous ones were absolutely mind-blowing…
6 guests out of 11 are game for the blackwater dive so we set up only one line and after half an hour sailing west we decide that it is deep enough, about 80 m of depth…
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Lizard fish on blackwater dive, south andaman
Lizard fish on blackwater dive, south andaman
One hour later everyone was back on board, the dive conditions were good, but the visibility made it challenging to spot critters…
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We still met some baby octopus, lizard fish, butterflyfish and loads of jellies and plankton like organisms making for a good but average blackwater dive.
It was time to sail overnight to Koh Lipe where we planned the morning dive at 8 mile rock…
The visibility was great, allowing us to see this abundance of life and magnificent soft coral covering the entire reef. 
Little shrimp on blackwater dive
Little shrimp on blackwater dive
blackwater diving of Hin Daeng Hin Muang
blackwater diving of Hin Daeng Hin Muang
Hard coral formation with a soft coral growing in the middle
Hard coral formation with a soft coral growing in the middle
The colour on the reef are so vibrant around Koh Lipe
The colour on the reef are so vibrant around Koh Lipe
Huge schools of yellow tail barracuda, jacks and giant trevallies are a regular there, the very mild current let us cruise around the pinnacle freely, we had 2 dives there exploring a bit further we found 2 ghostpipe fish ;)
Everyone was particularly blown away by the beauty of Stonehenge in the afternoon were on top of the vibrant colours we found the cutest baby seahorse! It is a dome like coral garden at about 20 m for the deepest part going all the way to 6 meters.
The site is covered with corals of all sorts mixed with barrel sponges and various clown fish inhabited anemones: it is an explosion of colours!  Absolutely stunning! Cruising the dive site we bumped into a massive school of chevron barracuda, it was the cherry on top making it a fantastic dive!
Diver over a school of fish
Diver over a school of fish
School of barracudas, Stonehenge, Lipe, South andaman
School of barracudas, Stonehenge, Lipe, South andaman
For the 4th and last dive we picked Koh Taru, a nice drift dive going with the current over the sandy patches looking for critters hiding there and in a lovely coral garden covered in yellow snappers, scorpion fish and fusiliers! 
After a well deserved night's rest, we headed back East for 3 more dive at Hin Daeng / Hin Muang before having the sunset dive at Koh Haa neua, aka the chimney! Everyone had a blast there, playing in the swim-through!
Cocktails were ready upon return to start up a lovely party with great food (yummy barbecue with  lamb legs, chicken wings, saussages and home made roated tomatoes, French fries and crunchy multi coloured salad). 

Fun was had by all, I won't tell you more...
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The end of the cruise was coming and for the last day and we start with koh haa yai, aka the cathedral, a very scenic dive with a massive cave in front of a rich coral garden.
The last group got lucky seeing a curious whaleshark! But as not everyone had seen it, we decided to stay for one more dive giving us another chance… unfortunately, that whale shark must have been in a rush because it did not hang around and Franck not being part of the lucky divers, we have no photos to illustrate this fantastic encounter. We were really close to the reef, finding tiny nudibranch one after the other when it came right up to us to say hello! 
The Smiling Seahorse at Koh Ha/ that's where we saw the whaleshark
The Smiling Seahorse at Koh Ha/ that's where we saw the whaleshark
Another wonderful sunset...
Another wonderful sunset...
Our last dive, the 15th of the trip, was at Koh Bida Nok, a nice and easy spot inhabitted by a group of resident black tip reef sharks!
Turns out, every guest got to see them! Some of us were lucky enough to have a good look at them while they were cruising in front of us, others only got a furtive glance as they were running away from the bubbles...
Phuket was only a 3 hours ride away, giving us plenty some time to look at the pictures of the trip and say good bye to everyone…
Happy divers with yellow seafan
Happy divers with yellow seafan
lovely reef scene Koh lanta national park
Lovely reef scene, Koh lanta National Park
Thank you all for coming, we had such a great time! we hope to see you again very soon!
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The Smiling Seahorse

170 Ruangrat Rd, Tambon khao nivet, Mueang Ranong District, Ranong 85000​
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        • Similan Islands
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          • Richelieu rock
        • The essential Underwater photo Guide to diving Thailand
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        • Phuket & Koh Phi Phi National Parks
        • Koh Lanta National Park
        • Koh Lipe and Tarutao National Park
      • Mergui Archipelago >
        • Marine life in the Andaman Sea
        • Burma's best dive sites
        • The Ultimate Underwater photo Guide to diving Burma
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  • PROMO
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    • Special Expeditions >
      • Ultimate Underwater photo combo expeditions
      • Video & photo expedition North Andaman 05 Nov 2023
      • Blackwater expedition 23 Jan 2024
      • UW Photo clinic North Andaman 31 Jan 2024
      • Special Marine Biology - 18 Feb 2024
      • Whale Shark Special - 19 Mar 2024 - North and South
      • Manta rays expedition - 20 April 2024
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