New year 2018 with Manta on the MV Smiling Seahorse
The smiles on everybody's face is the best reward for this incredible last trip of 2017!
An international group again with: Boris and Elena from Russia; Christina from Brasil; Tommy from Germany; Jo Ong from Singapour; Jeff from USA; Maria from Finland; Benjamin, Pascaline, Coralie, Cyriaque, François, Elsa and Gilles from France.
Without a doubt, the highlight of this cruise has been the mantas in Black Rock!
Three entire dives surrounded by these majestic creatures, so close ...
Have a look!
Magical, isn't it?
The second best news was to finally meet these cuties again:
And as if it was not enough, ghostpipe fishes were all over the place!
A lot of juvenile ones, for the delight of all!
Can you see this one?
As usual, the underwater sceneries were mind-blowing ...
Plenty of fishes everywhere!
Fancy portraits ;)
And extraordinary patterns ...
We could see our favourite nurse shark resting in its cave ...
Sponge crabs trying to hide, well done guys!
Mantis party in Shark Cave!
So many seahorses, with juvenile ones!
Colourful nudis and flat worms ...
A pinky stonefish not really happy to be discovered!
And a peacock tail anemone shrimp...
At the surface, lots of activities for our customers: snorkeling, swimming, kayaking ...
Meeting the locals along the way!
Leisure time on the boat ...
It was full moon and the sky views were astonishing!
Even if we were all tired, we all succeeded to stay awake until midnight for the fireworks and the champagne!
The team was in the mood too!
Congratulations to Jo Ong for her Deep Specialty certification!
And to Boris with his 12 years, who saw his first mantas and practiced his first night dives!
Let's finish with the sunsets and sunrises as always!
Happy New Year everybody, we wish you all the best for 2018 and mostly: health and happiness ;)
At the South Western border of Mergui Archipelago, Western rocky might be the most well known dive site in Myanmar.
Western Rocky is one of the archipelago’s southernmost dive sites in Myanmar and perhaps one of its most exciting in terms of the breadth of diving on offer. Western Rocky itself is a small island, sporting a dive passage right through its heart that just manages to be lit by daylight all the way through...