Missing Buoys on Pattaya's Kood Wreck

[lord khram]

The wreck has collapsed quite a bit and starts now at 20+ meters. Give it another year or so and all there's left is a large pile of rusting metal on the bottom at 30 meters.

It is a long time since I dived there and I know it is unavoidable, but such a demise of a dive site is always such a shame.
The Harddeep at samaesan is also heading in the same direction unfortunately.
That is one benefit in our cold and often murky water around the UK, with the lack of sunlight the deeper wrecks always remain intact for much longer.

 

[lord khram]

Khram I could agree with but the Kood? I personally do not enjoy the wreck at all - all the times I dove it has been green as hell with about 2m vis - am I missing something

I agree entirely, on the right day, the Khram is an excelent dive, plenty of life and you can get reasonable visibility.
I have lost count of the dives I have done on the Kood, and can honestly say I have not really enjoyed one of them, even though on one occasion having as much as about 5m viz. The wreck has very little life on it, generally very poor viz and often very strong currents, of course at least the latter can be avoided with correct dive planning.
One other point is the lack of positive comments from the divers that I have escorted on the Kood, a total contrast to the Khram where nearly every diver finishes the dive with a smile on their face and regular comments such as 'great dive'. I think that says it all.

 

[Ex-Aquanaut]

Took time for the Khram to develop the life it has on it. Kood's marine population has grown immensely from its first year. More will come. Many of our interns love diving it, as well as the Khram and Hardeep.

 

[lord khram]

Took time for the Khram to develop the life it has on it. Kood's marine population has grown immensely from its first year. More will come. Many of our interns love diving it, as well as the Khram and Hardeep.

Maybe your Interns do enjoy diving the Kood, but my experience is anything but enjoyment from diving customers, as I and others have said before it is suitable for a wreck/deep dive training site, if for whatever reason you do not want to travel the additional distance to the Khram and give your customers the best wreck dive possible in the area. But again as I have stated before, since the sinking of the Kood I have noticed a reluctance with some shops to travel the extra distance, nothing to do with proffit of course.
I have dived both wrecks frequently since their sinking, and after a similar ammount of time as the Kood has been sunk, the Khram was a far better dive, and in my opinion always will be.

 

[Ex-Aquanaut]

We do all 3 wrecks regularly.

 

[Apecks]

Do you run a different boat out to the hardeep? Never seen your main boat out there.

 

[lord khram]

Or me.
But one persons idea of regularly may differ to anothers.

 

[Ex-Aquanaut]

Yes, we use a smaller boat. Holds about 20.

 

[Apecks]

Yes, we use a smaller boat. Holds about 20.

Have to remember that one

 

[jamiemac]

I had a quick dive onthe Kut last time i was in Pattaya.

I liked it , quick, easy, close, not too many pesky fish andcoral getting in the way

Jamie