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Doug, thanks for your feedback....i just arrived in Maui, so keeping fingers crossed.. :) i'll be doing some boat dives + course with B&B, and then followed by fun dives with Mike Severns.... best rgds,

Hi everybody, i'll be in Maui during the first week of Feb, and looking to do some dives at Molokini and south maui...I plan to be diving from Kihei .... been seeing a lot of weather advisory coming out of NOAA weather service, like "strong surge", "small craft advisory" etc....and...

Hi everyone, Any news on the whether the corals recovered from this year's coral bleaching event ? Heard that Similan island corals recovered since the monsoon started, but the shallow corals, esp those without benefit of facing a current (i.e on east side), are still impacted ...

Congrats ! how deep is the wreck ?

Dear all, just wanted to share some highlights from a recent trip to Okinawa Kerama Islands. In general, the diving was amazing :D- healthy corals, great visibility (25-30m), and awesome amounts of marine life. On the first day out, a pod of dolphins was spotted around the dive boat, and...

This is an article taken from South China Morning Post (Hong Kong): Corals off Aceh dying amid warming waters Associated Press in Jakarta Updated on Aug 20, 2010 Coral that survived the 2004 tsunami is now dying at one of the fastest rates ever recorded because of a dramatic rise...

thats interesting...geographically, Langkawi is just south east of Phi Phi....and facing the same stretch of Andaman sea...it sits at the mouth of the Straits of Malacca..... next time, i'm going to the Similans.....:) avoid all these warm coastal waters...hehehe

Hi all, i read everyone's posts with great interests, esp the warnings and research on jellyfish in thai waters. I did not have a camera that day, so no image of the jellyfish that stung my wife. But researching on google images, i don't think its a box jellyfish. Its looks most similar...

good advice...thx!

believe it or not, both of us were wearing full suits....my wife got stung around the wrists (no gloves), and around her lips (surrounding the reg).... now...what are the chances of something like that happening ? :confused: you can plan for everything, but i guess nature will still have a...

thanks !....diving does provide a healthy change in perspective..... :D

Hi all, i used to dive many years ago, then stopped when i was posted to Hong Kong due to work reasons. i recently took it up again, as i missed the freedom of being underwater, being close to nature ...and perhaps... a little bit of a "mid life crisis"...:dork2: anyway, i have been a...

Hi Bowmouth, thanks for the feedback. I suppose the south west monsoon in june assist in pushing the jellyfish inwards towards shallow water then.... anyway, couple of snorkellers and other divers on the same dive boat got stung too. the density of jellyfish in the water was too much to...

My wife and me recently came back from a trip to Krabi, and we dived at Ao Nang islands and Phi Phi. At Ao Nang, we were surprised by the number of jellyfish in the water - on the boat ride out, we also witnessed an entire colony ( ~ 100+). My wife was unfortunately stung on her wrists...