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Happy New Year Trip North to South Andaman from 27th of December 2022 to 3rd of January

11/1/2023

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We welcome this week 14 guests from Switzerland, Luxembourg, Germany, Finland, Japan, United States and England and we had a blast, both on the boat and underwater. Thank you for choosing the MV Smiling Seahorse to “pass the cap” on board. 

Starting the trip in the Surin National Park, the highlight of the first day was a curious guitar shark visiting us on our very first dive! 

Big school of fish, trevally, barracudas and fusilier were  present around the famous Richelieu Rock. Looking on the reef we could spot ghost pipefish, a seahorse and 2 pairs of harlequin shrimps for the pleasure of all!
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Cruising down south to the Similan National Park for the next two days, everyone really enjoyed Koh Tachai pinnacle which was teeming with life. it’s always great to see the diversity of this ecosystem and two dives are far from enough to see it all. 
The first night dive was at Koh Bon where we saw the tinniest Pygmy squid, plenty of moray eels hunting (some where huge!!!), cool crabs like anemone crab or decorate spider crab. The reef was alight with shrimps eyes shinning in our torches and getting closer we recognised Durban dancing shrimps, transparent cleaner shrimps, marble shrimps and tapestry shrimps (both are saron shrimp and oh so colourful!)
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The following day, we had a little change of plan because the princess of Thailand wanted to go diving in the similans and closed a few sites to make sure she wouldn't meet any diver underwater... Fun to think  the Similan islands as a Royal-worthy dive destination. Three big military ships where guarding the princess and made sure we didn't get close... 
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We dove at elephant head rock first where we saw 2  resident Ribbon eel (black and blue), a tinny octopus and tunas. Our second dive was at shark fin reef which had many huge boxfish hanging out and a school of batfish. The third dive was at boulder city and a group got super lucky with a Leopard shark!

I think they are my favorite type of shark... what's yours?
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soft and hard coral mixing
leopard shark
Franck didn't get lucky this time but our guest got a shot of this gorgeous leopard shark :)
A smooth cruising down south to Koh Lanta National Park where we dove the next day around Hin Daeng and Hin Muang, including a wonderful night dive! On this second night dive this week we encountered many crustaceans and morays including another pair of harlequin shrimps!
thorny seastar on vibrant reef
barrel sponge blur effect
Despite being tired by 4 dives that day, quite a few guests and most staff were also up for a big new year celebration, starting with a succulent barbecue and ending up dancing on the sundeck with music, hats and party favors! We all ended up drinking champagne (courtesy of the smiling seahorse) with  bright hats on our head, blowing party horns to the sea breeze :) Fun times! 
perfect new year celebration on diving Liveaboard
scuba divers celebrating new year in thailand
Tarutao National Park and his famous 8 miles (12.87 km) rock for the two first dives of 2023 were wonderful ! Mobula , frogfish, seahorse and huge school of Jack.
Following by the incredible Stonehenge and his beautiful coral garden where a school or Baraccuda came by to say hello to the lense. That day ended with a 
Blackwater dive on our way back West.
baraccuda at Stonehenge- Thailand
wonderful school of baraccuda in the sunrays
diving with barracuda school

What we see Blackwater diving in Thailand

larval fish blackwater in thailand
crab blackwater in thailand
crustaceans blackwater in thailand
blackwater in thailand
Back to Lanta National Park, the cameras flashed again in front of harlequin shrimps, a massive stone fish and the amazing wall full of soft coral of Hin Daeng (Red) and Hin Muang (Purple).
We spent the rest of the day in Koh Haa, hunting a variety of nudibranch that even some guides had never seen before ! We went through the scenic Cathedral and Chimney perfect prop for our annual group picture!
thailand diving with a frogfish
picachu nudibranch
jellyfish
tomatoe grouper
Last day but not least, Bida Nok with its many black tip reef sharks and their dense school of yellowback fusilier.
Last dive before heading back to Phuket was at Shark Point with the perfect finish to this wonderful cruise: a long and chill encounter of a Zebra Shark !
 
Stay tuned for our next adventure ! Thanks for reading, more fishy stories for you next week !
group Picture underwater
Not easy to take a group picture underwater without bubbles in everybody's face!
happy new year scuba divers!
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Christmas trip in the North Andaman: 19th to 25th of December 2022

27/12/2022

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Trip Report North Andaman Christmas trip from 19th to 25th of December 2022
Merry Christmas to all, we had a really amazing Christmas trip and hope you also enjoyed the festive season with your loved ones. We had 15 fantastic guests coming all the way from France, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, and Sweden to visit the best spots of the North Andaman Sea of Thailand: Similan National Park and Surin National Park for a 7 day- cruise. What a blast!

Unfortunately Franck took the week off to enjoy Christmas at home with the kids, which was a treat for our family but means no underwater photos this week! Thanksfully our dream team took over with lovely photos onboard and it looks like everyone had a fantastic trip without us (Camille and Franck).
Merry Christmas on The MV Smiling Seahorse!
Santa Clauss is the captain for today!
Chrismas guests on the MV Smiling seahorse
On the MV Smiling Seahorse we have the cutest diving instructors!
A coconut for Christmas? Sharky?
Merry Christmas Cap'tain!
Great dives were had with lots of schooling fishes, cute nudibranch, octopus, and black tip reef shark. Torinla Rocks, In surin islands, were amazing this week, with Pikachu in their trees (hydroids) and kuhl's stingray flying over a bunch of garden eels.

Richelieu was incredible, we saw a seahorse, few ghost pipefishes, ribbon eel, zebra moray and a huge amount of fishes dancing over the rock, trevallies, barracudas, fusiliers, rabbit fishes, batfishes.

In the Similans, Three trees had strong current, but the school of barracudas were hovering over the reef which gave us a magical show!
Thank you everyone for this Christmas trip !
Fun was had onboard, especially during Christmas eve as we enjoyed a wonderful Banrbecued Lamb shank and a few drinks! Thank you to our lovely guests for joining us this Christmas ! A

​ll the Smiling Seahorse team wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !
3 little monkeys, tell me what's under The MV Smiling Seahorse Christmas three?...
3 little monkeys, tell me what's under The MV Smiling Seahorse Christmas three?...
Christmas three...
Christmas three...
Christmas sunset...
Christmas sunset...
Do you know how the Christmas Trees tradition started?

Long before the advent of Christianity, plants and trees that remained green all year had a special meaning for people in the winter. Just as people today decorate their homes during the festive season with pine, spruce, and fir trees, ancient peoples hung evergreen boughs over their doors and windows. In many countries it was believed that evergreens would keep away witches, ghosts, evil spirits, and illness...

Looks like our tree brought us luck this week and kept bad spirit away :)

How was your Christmas? Did you take a holidays?  Did you go diving somewhere cool?
Or did you stay home?
Did you get fun scuba-diver gifts under the tree?
Tell us all in the comment section!
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Trip report: South& North Andaman sea from 10th to 17th of December 2022

19/12/2022

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school of jackfish in North Andaman, Thailand
A small group for a big trip, this week MV Smiling Sea Horse had 7 lucky guests, coming from United States, France, Singapore and Israel. Franck, our co-owner and onboard photographer wasn't onboard this time so a big thank you to Boris Mekler for illustrating this blogpost with fantastic photos. Thanks a lot for coming back with us for the sixth trip in a year! It is always a pleasure diving with you! 
giant murray in bubble coral
scubadiver with a knife
vibrant colored soft coral
We start the trip cruising south from Lanta National Park, Hin Daeng and Hin Muang to Tarutao National Park. Harlequin shrimps were present for our first night dive in Hin Daeng, a big school of barracuda and some nice nudibranch. A Mobula rays few by us on 8 miles, next to koh lipe and a we also found a sneeky frogfish hiding in plain sight!
halgerda nudibranch
lionfish in green water
Blackwater this week was fantastic so most guests asked to make a second black water dives this trip. We saw so many cool and weird creatures. The first blackwater dive was loaded with baby puffer fish blowing up in front of our masks as well as a baby stargazer! The second BW dive was full of baby Moray eels with long transparent bodies and sharp/tinny tooth! All the energetic babies were quite fast moving and so hard to photograph so we can't show you unfortunately this time, you'll have to come see for yourself! 
But we can still show you flying guenard, anemone, baby squids and octopus and a sea elephant.
flying guenard
anemone on blackwater dive thailand
baby octopus on blackwater dive thailand
sea elephant on blackwater dive thailand
squid on blackwater dive thailand
anemone on blackwater dive andaman sea
After the crossing overnight from south Andaman to North Andaman contouring Phuket, we spent the second part of the trip between the Similan and Surin National parks. Visibilty was great, especially around Koh Bon and koh Tachai. 
butterfly love dance in koh tachai
clownfish in anemone thailand
grouper surin national park
garden eels in surin thailand
cuttlefish surin islands
In Surin National parks, we started around Torinla and ended in Richelieu Rock and its abundance of fishes. This pretty juvenile shaded batfish was the highlight of my dives in Surin, they are just so graceful! 
Red more about this emblematic baby :
all about the shaded batfish.

I love this photo of garden eels and it is always a pleasure meeting the plasma worthy Mr cuttlefish!

We found another pair of harlequin shrimps in Richelieu Rock but the rock was so so so fishy it was hard to take a look on the reef!

Gazillion of trevalli were surrounding us and crossing path with big schools of hunting emperors, barracuda all going for the thick glassfish cloud!
juvenile shaded batfish thailand
juvenile shaded batfish
great athmosphere onboard mv smiling seahorse
fun time onboard!
Thank you again Boris for sharing your pictures with us and the world and thanks to all our fantastic guests for choosing us and sharing this great time with us. We look forward to welcome you back for more fishy stories!
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Trip report : North to South Andaman trip from 1st to 8th of December 2022

10/12/2022

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trip report onboard mv smiling seahorse december 2022
Great trip starting from Khao Lak with 13 guests coming from US, Belgium, Canada, England, and French. The first place we dive was in Koh Chi in Surin National Park were the wonderful pikachus welcomed is in colours and after that, we went to Richelieu Rock for 3 more dives that first day!
piccachu nudibranch thailand
Pikachu nudibranch
jack fish school
ghostpipe fish thailand
Then we moved south towards Similan National Park for a day split between Koh Tachai and Koh Bon. We saw a nice school of pickhandle barracudas in the blue and on the reef found Maldives sponge snails, the eggs of Spanish dancer (aka the reef rose) and a beautiful green turtle.
Picture of a green turtle on the colorful reef
green turtle hanging out
The 3rd day, we were at three trees, elephant head, and west of eden for some great dives. We saw a curious octopus, a couple of blue ribbon eels sharing the same hole, and loads of beautiful nudibranch. I still wonder why two blue ribbon eels shared the same house as color usually determine the sex of these drag queens...  if you know or wanna guess, let us know in the comment section!
2 ribbon eels sharing a hole
Miamira colorful nudibranch
Similan delivered some fantastic dives but so did Lanta National Park! We got lucky to see our first manta ray of the season but unfortunately no photo this time! sad...
​Then we made an exploration dive around Koh Rok before going south to Tarutao National Park. 
Full day around Koh Lipe to dive 8 Miles, Stonehenge, Koh Yang East and Sawang. 8 Miles dive site was amazing with huge school of trevallies (some were huge!!!), barracudas and for the two frogfishs hiding in the middle of it all!
Congratulations to Timothy and Emmanuelle for your Advanced Open Water certification, to Le and Stewart for your Enriched Air Nitrox certification and to Michelle for both !
That night was black water night and was really good, Franck managed to catch a picture for the first time a Tonguefish.
Last day, first dive in Bida Nok and second in Shark point. We saw some black tip reef sharks, cuttlefish and beautiful tiny squat shrimps.
blacktip reefshark thailand
Thank you Timothy and Emmanuelle for choosing us to celebrate your honeymoon! wishing you many happy dives together!
honeymoon divers
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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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South and North Andaman Liveaboard: 13th of January

27/1/2022

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Trip report January
​We started this new adventure from Phuket on a very windy day, heading towards our very first dive at Koh haa lagoon. After we went down to Hin Deang and Hin Muang for the next 2 dives and the night dive at Hin Deang, it was really nice!
Boris Mekler, the photographer featured in this blogpost played with UV lights which gave these funky colours to coral and anemones.
Green Anemone
Blackwater dive
The following day was planned to be around Koh Lipe area but we could only have 1 dive at 8 miles due to wavy conditions. ​We found shelter for dive 2 and 3 at Pattaya corner and finished the day with calm conditions at the brightly coloured Stonehenge with a magnificent dive full of barracuda and 20m visibility!
Barracuda Thailand
Diving Thailand
After that it was time to go back west to Hin Muang and hin Daeng hoping to see some giant flap flaps...  no luck with pelagic this time but we still had some beautiful dives with great visibility and no more waves! Our 3rd dive of the day was at koh Haa Neua before setting sails for the Similan Islands, this part was really nice as we were cruising we had some nice drinks watching the sun go down…​ It was a beautiful moment to share with our guests! 
Sunset Thailand
Boat Smiling Seahorse
1 Next day started at shark fin reef, followed by West of Eden. After that we made a stop at our beloved Donald Duck bay for some beach hopping before the 3rd dive at 3 trees!
At night we offered the option between a Blackwater dive and a sunset dive at Koh Bon, both were amazing!
Sunset divers caught a glimpse of 2 white tips and a guitar shark and Blackwaterdivers saw a seahorse and 2 paper nautilus (male and female) during floating offshore! It was amazing!! 
Seahorse BW
Strange face on blackwater dive
Next day we did 2 dives at Koh Bon which were both amazing with 2 white tips again and an eagle ray! Then we moved to Koh Tachai with great conditions and a massive school of black fin barracudas!  We wrapped up the day with our infamous bbq night taking this occasion to celebrate Marco’s birthday with some delicious cakes!
Turltle Blackwater dive
Male paper nautilus are much smaller then their female counterpart
Paper Nautilus
female also build a shell to hide their eggs giving them this "nautilus look"
Did you know Paper Nautilus are actually not Nautiluses at all?

The trip ended in Richelieu Rock for the next 4 dives… We found even more ghost pipe fishes than the previous trips, they seem to be everywhere these days. We were amazed by the abundance of macro life! In Koh Bon we found another white tips shark before saying goodby to the islands and heading back to shore.

Big up to Anka for completing her advanced open water certification as well as the nitrox specialty and to Emma for the nitrox specialty too! Thanks to our lovely guests, we had an amazing time once again :) Don't forget to subscribe to our blogpost to receive regular updates and more illustrated fishy stories directly in your inbox. 
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