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Three day live aboard trip to dive sites around Lipe in Satun, Thailand. Conditions were poor with strong currents, bad visibility and not much to see. I probably shouldn't have made this video, but I had time on my hands and have made a video of every other dive trip since 2013. So, here it is...

My wife and I do two or three live aboard trips per year and that’s it for diving for us. Our first trip this year was in February and was the first chance I got to use Oceanic+ with my Watch Ultra. At that time it worked fine as a dive computer, although there were a few shortcomings which I...

AFAIK there are now two iOS apps to export data gathered by the Oceanic+ app on the Apple Watch Ultra: AWU2UDDF by Douglas Junkins Dive Converter by Carsten Heinelt Both of these apps export UDDF files which are importable by several dive logbook apps including Subsurface, MacDive and others...

We're tentatively planning a South Andaman trip for mid May on the MV Aruna Voyager. Anyone familiar with this boat? We saw it on our last North Andaman trip. It's huge with a plumb bow. Instead of using inflatable rigid rubber dinghies it has these motorized barge like craft for drop off and...

Losin is one of my favorite dive sites. I first dove it in July of 2012 on the M/V Scuba Explorer on a trip that started at Losin and ended at Koh Tao. In October of that year I did another Scuba Explorer trip that went the other direction (Koh Tao to Losin) and on which I saw my first Whale...

I just spent four days on a live aboard in the North Andaman (Thailand) with an Apple Watch Ultra and the Oceanic+ iPhone app. I had a Zoop Novo with me for comparison and backup. I used the pair for both Enriched Air and Air dives. I had the Watch set to the most conservative setting (PPO2 1.40...

Did a four day North Andaman live aboard trip last week. Although conditions were OK, there just wasn't much to see. I usually make a highlight video of dive trips but this time I'll be hard pressed to find much in the way of highlights. My wife concurs: "It just isn't as beautiful as it used to...

I live in Thailand. I am 73 years old. I've been diving for just over 50 years. Last December I had an atrial fibrillation event for the first and, so far, only time. It lasted about ten minutes. Other than the rapid, irregular heartbeat I had no other symptoms and felt completely normal. I was...

This was supposed to be our first night of a five night live aboard trip. We were notified late last night that the trip was cancelled because 7 of the 12 crew members have Covid along with 10 of the divers from the last trip. Such is luck in the time of Covid. They have promised full...

I live in Thailand. For the past ten years I've had dive insurance through DAN Asia Pacific. The cost was 90 Australian Dollars per year for a family membership that covered both me and my wife. That's about US$68. I went to renew my membership today and found out that I have to change my...

Reuters has a nice collection of photos of the giant fishing net that threatened and partially destroyed the coral reef at Koh Losin; perhaps my favorite dive site in Thailand: Ghost fishing nets threaten Thai coral | Pictures | Reuters A couple more links: The Royal Thai Navy has cleared a...

The buckle on the top tank strap on my wife's Oxycheq backplate is broken. Photo attached. This is the second breakage (cheap plastic?). The person who fixed the first one (the bottom strap) replaced the entire strap and buckle assembly. I'd like to replace the buckle only, but the stainless...

So, how are the dive boat operators dealing with the recent enhanced enforcement of the TM30 Immigration reporting requirements. How do they deal with a trip that covers multiple provinces? Or, are they just ignoring it for now?

As you can see, conditions were not great and we didn't encounter anything unusual or extraordinary. The creatures on the boat were, perhaps, more interesting than those under the boat.

Please don't take this too seriously. I had been looking forward to this dive trip for months. It's a rare one that I'd done before and was happy to see it on offer again. The boat departs from Songkhla and arrives at Chumphon five days later with stops to dive at Losin, Koh Krah, Koh Tao and...

I bought the D4i in October of 2013. After a couple of live aboard trips I discovered that it had failed to save some dives. Suunto replaced it due to a memory error. I had the battery replaced in October of 2015 even though I never got a "Battery Low" warning. I admit this was an act of...

I just leaned that this interesting trip has plenty of space available. The Tapana Catamaran departs Songkhla on May 22 and arrives in Chumphon the 27th. Five nights on the boat, four days of diving, 15 dives. This is a unique opportunity to dive Koh Kra, which doesn’t get many divers. (Also...

My wife has been diving for four years. She continues to have trouble with her ears. We have tried everything we can find. Ear cleaning methods on YouTube, practice, practice, practice, medication, etc. It’s time to see a physician. Anyone know of an ENT specialist, preferably around...

I know this is a long shot, but I found a KingMa underwater action camera (sort of a GoPro clone) at Koh Bon on March 29th. I just got around to looking at the SD card. I think that the person in the attached photo was the dive guide on the trip. I'd be happy to return the camera, but, other...

This was supposed to be my long awaited South Andaman trip, but it turns out all the other customers wanted to go North where they thought they'd have a better chance of seeing "Big Stuff". The trip was fine. Visibility ranged from good to poor. There were some nasty thermoclines with the...