Comment: An almost perfect day in Phuket, sunny skies, calm seas, and super nice cool breeze for our boat ride to the Shark Point Area. The king Cruiser has sunken a little bit deeper. On Nittrox 32%, Matt J and I spent the majority of our dives between 30m-19m, with the only shallow area at about 15m, where the wheel house used to be. Soon, this dive site is going to be an advance level,with Nitrox require to get any decent dive time on it, CooL! Shark Point and koh Doc Mai were nice as usual. I saw 3 swimming leopard sharks at shark Point, first time in a long time that happened. The beautiful red Frogfish is still at the same coral, at 13.3m, 3om from the second cave :-) See some photos during an Advance Course here.
Dive 082: King Cruiser Wreck
Max Depth: 30.7m ; Bottom time: 38 min; EANx: 32%
Water Temp: 30c; Visibility: 5-10m
Dive 083: Shark Point
Max Depth: 18.5m ; Bottom time: 60 min
Water Temp: 30c; Visibility: 10-15m
Dive 084: koh Doc Mai
Max Depth: 19.2m ; Bottom time: 55 min
Water Temp: 30c; Visibility: 10-15m
Tuesday, 21st July
Comment: A windy day stirred up the sea that rocked the boat during the our crossing from Chalong Bay to Raya Yai East Coast. We were alone on the Andaman Eagle Wreck for the entire dive. We also had Lucy's reef all to ourselves for the second dive. Bent Stick pipefish were all over in the sand near the artificial reef.
Dive 080: Andaman Eagle Wreck, Bay 2
Max Depth: 27.7m ; Bottom time: 51 min; EANx: 32%
Water Temp: 29c; Visibility: 15-20m
Dive 081: Lucy's Reef, Bay 3
Max Depth: 23.7m ; Bottom time: 52 min; EANx: 32%
Water Temp: 29c; Visibility: 15-20m
Comment: Great idea to go to Phi Phi with Alex & Matt, doing some dives, hanging with the cool people in Tonsai Village, meeting some new friends. Well, Seasick was the norm for our 2 days, huge waves, and Greta was rocking all the wrong way! However, Leopard sharks, turtle, seahorses & frogfish at KDM made up for the rough boat ride. Click on the photo to see Alex pictures, posted at his FB page.
Wednesday, 15th July
Dive 074: Shark PointMax Depth: 18.9m ; Bottom time: 50 min; EANx: 34% Water Temp: 30c; Visibility: 15-20m
Dive 075: Koh Bida Nok
Max Depth: 20.7m ; Bottom time: 43 min
Water Temp: 30c; Visibility: 10-15m
Dive 076: Phi Le Point
Max Depth: 16.7m ; Bottom time: 52 minWater Temp: 30c; Visibility: 10-15mThursday, 16th July
Dive 077: Koh Bida NaiMax Depth: 20.4m ; Bottom time: 49 min
Water Temp: 30c; Visibility: 10-15m
Dive 078: Koh Doc MaiMax Depth: 22.5m ; Bottom time: 52 minWater Temp: 30c; Visibility: 15-20m
Dive 079: Koh Doc Mai
Max Depth: 20.1m ; Bottom time: 53 min; EANx: 33%
Water Temp: 30c; Visibility: 15-20m
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Thursday, 9th July
Dive 072: Signal Point
Max Depth: 23.4m ; Bottom time: 65 min
Water Temp: 28c; Visibility: 15-20m
Dive 073: Undersea Island
Max Depth: 17.6m ; Bottom time: 60 min
Water Temp: 28c; Visibility: 15-20m
Comment: Hoi An is located about 45 minutes south of central Viet Nam's largest city, Da Nang. It is my favorite place to visit when I come home for holidays each year. With dive gears already with us, Miz and I finally plunged in and do a dive trip in between our feasts and shopping excursions in the Old Town. If you have been following with my log of our latest dive excursion, you would have known that my camera photo mode was fried in Sipadan. So, for the rest of the diving, it was video mode only. Dive condition for our day was practically perfect, flat sea, sunny skies, and pretty good visibility. Topography of the 2 dive sites we visit is similar to what we have in the Raya Islands in Phuket. There were fish life, though not as densely as you might see in the Andaman Sea. Some videos from the dives can be viewed at my YouTube page.
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