Hey guys and lady-guys,
There's been a ton of posts on here lately about Thailand holidays etc and I figured I'd jump on the bandwagon by posting a bit of my scuba diving experience over there. (Incidentally, this was the same week when the 8.9 quake hit off Indo.)
I did 7 dives in total, 4 around one island and the other 3 were made up of a pinnacle dive, a wall drift dive and a wreck dive.
I was never a fan of the idea of diving wrecks as I always considered it to be garbage polluting the natural sea world. Man was I wrong! The amount of sea life which gathered in and around the wreck was simply humbling.
I wasn't going to post it here because I didn't think it would be interesting to anyone other than my immediate friends, but I noticed my one diving video already has over 300 views, so here's hoping some of you enjoy it as well.
[video=youtube;XTlRvPAd3Is]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTlRvPAd3Is[/video]
This was taken with my gopro and normal housing. I was able to pick up a proper dive housing afterwards, but they weren't released yet at the time of my trip.
I'll try post a few stills of the fish/etc. later on if anyone's interested. Just need to upload it 1st.
Some more info of the wreck: It was a car carrying ferry which sank off a reef about 15years ago near the Phi Phi islands. There is suspicion that it was an insurance fraud incident as the captain was very experienced in the area and the reef he hit was also very well known.
There is an abundance of Lion fish, barracuda, eels and random other silly fish living in and around the wreck. The wreck starts at 16m deep and goes down to around 30m. The deepest we went was roughly 25m.
The reason i'm not wearing a suit in the vid is because even at that depth, the water temp was still around 28-29 degrees.
Cheers
There's been a ton of posts on here lately about Thailand holidays etc and I figured I'd jump on the bandwagon by posting a bit of my scuba diving experience over there. (Incidentally, this was the same week when the 8.9 quake hit off Indo.)
I did 7 dives in total, 4 around one island and the other 3 were made up of a pinnacle dive, a wall drift dive and a wreck dive.
I was never a fan of the idea of diving wrecks as I always considered it to be garbage polluting the natural sea world. Man was I wrong! The amount of sea life which gathered in and around the wreck was simply humbling.
I wasn't going to post it here because I didn't think it would be interesting to anyone other than my immediate friends, but I noticed my one diving video already has over 300 views, so here's hoping some of you enjoy it as well.
[video=youtube;XTlRvPAd3Is]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTlRvPAd3Is[/video]
This was taken with my gopro and normal housing. I was able to pick up a proper dive housing afterwards, but they weren't released yet at the time of my trip.
I'll try post a few stills of the fish/etc. later on if anyone's interested. Just need to upload it 1st.
Some more info of the wreck: It was a car carrying ferry which sank off a reef about 15years ago near the Phi Phi islands. There is suspicion that it was an insurance fraud incident as the captain was very experienced in the area and the reef he hit was also very well known.
There is an abundance of Lion fish, barracuda, eels and random other silly fish living in and around the wreck. The wreck starts at 16m deep and goes down to around 30m. The deepest we went was roughly 25m.
The reason i'm not wearing a suit in the vid is because even at that depth, the water temp was still around 28-29 degrees.
Cheers
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