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The LOB ship MV Camic started leaking and taking on water in the early morning hours today and was intentionally run aground on a nearby beach in the Similans Islands Marine Park. No serious injuries or fatalities. 📸 Look at this post on Facebook...

Rainy season with last week's wind, rain, and "tornadoes" are long gone. Now nothing but clear skies and calm seas.

I'm an avid shore diver and solo certified Divemaster. I've been to many diving locations in the Philippines and the only area that has extensive shore dives is Dauin. Sure there are dive centers with house reefs and obviously extensive shoreline where one could walk in and do a dive. I'm just...

Silly me, I disassembled the head unit of my D710V torch to clean the lense and when I went to reassemble it, can't remember if the o-ring goes in front of the lens or behind it. I'm thinking behind as there appears to be a grove around the top of light cone to place the ring. Can anyone...

If you have an upcoming trip on the Indo Siren, you better make other plans! https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/blaze-consumes-indo-siren-liveaboard/

My observations after my first couple dives at Monkey Reef, a site about 10 minutes drive north from Tulamben (at the Relax Bali resort). The site is a shore dive entry over the typical medium sized pebble shoreline common in the area. (There is a moring line so it's also dived by boats.) It is...

This is a report of my trip to Padang Bai in Bali, which is about a one and one-half hour drive up the north coast from Denpasar-Sanur. PB itself is a small crescent shaped bay, which takes all of ten minutes to walk from end to end. There is a port for both slow car/truck ferries to Lombok and...

A few teasers from my upcoming Amed trip report... Harlequin Swimmer Crab Chromodorididae nuddies Painted Frogfish

Mabul trip at Scuba Junkies. First day...2 dives at Kapalai and 2 at Mabul - turtles and crazy macro are the main themes. Sadly large aggragations of reef fish are not. (If you want to see all the parrotfish, snappers, groupers, jacks, barracudas, and even pufferfish no need to go to Mabul or...

So I'm back in Bali after a spell if about 8 years and it's as nice as I remember, which is great. The diving has been spectacular and the people as friendly as ever. I will post follow-on reports of dive sites, resorts, and restos but for now just the good stuff...fish pics! These were all...

What are appropriate amounts to tip dive guides in Bali. I want to tip an appropriate amount but don't want to tip out of proportion to the local salary structure. As a point of reference, for 2023, the minimum daily wage is about IDR 80,000 or about USD 5.50. Now I consider the work of the dive...

There is an amazing variety of marine life literally meters offshore from Kata Beach...the hard coral garden and sandy bottom in Kata Bay hold a myriad of marine life from schools of barracuda to moray eels to deadly stonefish to cute seahorses and everything in-between. In this thread I'll post...

Dive Report :Kata Bay Dive Date: Supplemental Introduction After multiple dives in Kata Bay, I'm adding this supplement to my earlier report on the marine life and logistics of shore diving from Kata Beach. The diving in Kata Bay is found just offshore from the main Kata Beach (not Kata Noi...

I recently completed 4 dives on Kata Reef and this is my experience of this easily accessible Phuket shore dive site. I've been diving in Phuket for over a decade but I never got around to diving this site...in fact, until recently, I'd never even heard of Kata Reef. During some recent day boat...

Interesting YT video of juvenile Great White sharks in Malibu Beach, California, and their interactions with beach goers and surfers.

Phuket News: Olive ridley turtles hatch at Mai Khao, first in 20 years

22 March 2021...In the time of Covid The Boat MV. Mandarin Queen This is a report of my day-trip diving on MV Mandarin Queen, in Phuket. This was my first time diving on this boat and I was anxious to compare it my usual Phuket "go-to" Seabees Diving and their Excalibur 1. I booked a 3 dive...

I need a new computer and am cross-shopping these two models. They both have everything I need and are from reputable manufacturers. The other thing I like about both are the oversize displays and large numerals/digits. They are also about the same price. Anyone with any thoughts one versus the...

I am in the market for a new regulator and was pricing brands and shops around Phuket, when I happened to come across a Lazada offer of a complete A-L Mikron setup, including first, second, and octo stages, an A-L SPG, and reg carrying case for 23,000 baht (US$ 740). I thought this was a pretty...

For some background, I'm a long time resident of Thailand (Pattaya) and decided to avail myself of the once in a lifetime chance to visit and have Phuket almost all to myself and to dive the local day sites with a very minimum of other divers splashing about. The fact that hotel rates are 50-80...