Thai Diver
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Thai Travel Guide
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By: Paul Lees
Some of the best underwater scenery is found at the very remotest of offshore islands, rendering them accessible only to the priveleged few. The Gulf of Thailand is no exception to this, but this is all about to change as a couple of operators have just found the key. From Koh Samui to Koh Losin, the secrets of the Gulf of Thailand are opening up. As Paul Lees reports, liveaboard diving has finally come of age in the Gulf. Appreciated change Until now, live-aboard diving excursions have concentrated on the destinations accessed from the western coastline of the country; As far as operators in the Gulf of Thailand were concerned live-aboard excursions were something that simply happened elsewhere. Thankfully, this has just changed, and with over two hundred small islets and islands in the Gulf, it's a very welcome one. At last there's a chance to go exploring. There are now two different types of regular excursions plying the waters, and both are offering big savings on their usual charter prices, but with no compromises on the standard of service or enjoyment. Both cover the area in its entirety but in two completely different ways.
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Thai Travel Guide
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By: Bruce Konefe
After months of talking and research we got enough information gathered to make our next exploration trip. We wanted to explore some cave systems in the Northwestern parts of Thailand. If any of you diving enthusiasts are looking for some new challenges, cave diving just might be the very thing for you! But it's not for everyone: it takes discipline, special training and a lot of hard work. |
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Thai Travel Guide
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By: Jay Maclean
Photo:Fish 'N Fins I am in the throes of completing a book on marine ecosystems. It has taken more than a year of my life to distil the knowledge of several hundred scientific articles combined with the results of an exciting new way to model food webs that are the basis of ecosystem functioning, i.e. fish eat fish. It has been a dry exercise, difficult initially to digest the information, difficult to present it in an easily digestible way. The message is basically that we (fishers, spearfishers) are fishing out the seas, leaving only small inedible fish to look at, a process called fishing down the food web. But last week, it all came to life. I was submerged on a tiny reef area called Ulong Channel in Palau (real name Belau), itself a tiny dot in the massive Pacific Ocean, 1,000 miles southeast of Manila, 4,500 miles west of Hawaii. There I saw the whole food web in action all at once--I could see its importance in the scheme of things. The Ulong Channel is one of those places where water surges out of the lagoon on the west side of the Palau islands and is spat out along with stray divers into the Philippine Sea, with a few thousand metres of water between scuba tank and seabed. |
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Thai Travel Guide
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What is the state of the nearest coral reef to your home? Is it thriving suffering great swathes of bleaching and anchoring damage? Chances are most divers could give you an idea of a reefs health but how accurate would that data be? Perhaps you've read statements like this one "60 percent of the worlds corals reefs have already been lost and the rest are under threat". Have you ever wondered where these numbers come from? Most divers I talk to seem to have the impression that the governments of the countries with coral reefs maintain full time research teams diligently assessing the reefs day in day out. |
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Marine Environment
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 Text and pictures by Mala & Adi Gehri of ABC DIVERS, Koh Samui Another Flabellina sp., common in the Indian Ocean side of Thailand Amazing colour, beautiful form, funny appetites, unique defenses and one that practices feminism and masculinity, the nudibranch has it all.While the sights of larger reef inhabitants amaze other divers, my hubby and I dive with magnifying lens strapped on to our BCD. Many a time, I have got amused laughs, curious stares and a flow of questions regarding this strange piece of dive equipment. Why? Playing Sherlock Holmes underwater has many rewards especially when hunting down nudibranchs. |
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Marine Environment
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 WILDAID TO PRESENT NEW EVIDENCE IN COURT " We did not lie to the public when we said that sharks are in trouble, and that the people eating them may be too," stated WildAid President Kraisak Choonhavan. " We are not singling out shark fin merchants in Thailand," added WildAid Director Steven Galster. " Thailand is part of a global trade. Many of the fins on the Thai market come from Hong Kong, the main distribution point for shark fin sales internationally. Fins sold out of Hong Kong come from sharks fished all over the world. So the consumer of shark fin soup -whether they are in Bangkok or San Francisco-is part of a global threat to sharks. And that same consumer may be risking his or her own health by ingesting an unpublished ingredient, Galster said." |
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Marine Environment
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 By Mala and Adi Gehri of ABC DIVERS Koh Samui Sea grass beds where many treasures await to be discovered In recent years, photographers and enthusiastic divers have been on a quest in search of underwater inhabitants and varying dive sites. Forget visions of crystal clear water, dancing reef fish and dazzling colour. No, no I am not narked yet! I’m simply talking about muck diving. |
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Dive Safety
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 Warm Water Divers Phuket Where 5 Stars Shine
There's a lot more to Warm Water Divers on Patong Beach than meets the eye. On first impression they appear to be what can only be described as undoubtedly the best-stocked retail outlet on Phuket Island, but there's more. Flexibility is the word here; Warm Water Divers actually promote the full range of scuba diving services. |
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Dive News
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The shape of things to come Mares came to Bangkok recently, and Thailand’s Siam Diving Enterprises (SDE) hosted the launch of the new range of products.
Distributors from all over the region came for the one day seminar held on the 26th July 2002.
Mares bigwigs Marco Tallia, International Sales director and Claudio Ferrantino, Mares President, introduced the attendees to a host of new products that will be available from mid-October.
Also present was Gianni Garofalo, Head of Research and Development. Gianni has been designing Mares equip,emt for many years. |
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Dive News
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 DOCT Divemaster Program 2002 DOCT's flagship project of training up local residents began in 2001 when The DOCT was formed on Phuket with the intention of trying to encourage and welcome the participation of Thai Nationals into the diving industry. They offered to train up any eligible applicant from open water to divemaster at no cost. The actual cash value of the training provided to the successful applicants would amount to thousands of Baht. The initial year saw 22 qualified applicants, 13 of who completed the program to be certified as divemasters. Six graduates gained full time employment in the diving industry with all the expenses being met by the members of the DOCT. |
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On Location
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Photo: Kon Tiki Khao Lak The wreck remains intact, and with the addition of all the marine-life, is a great place to dive; in fact as far as the marine-life goes, its right up there with the best of them. A short drive from Phuket reaches Khao Lak in Phangnga province, where surprisingly enough, there's a fantastic variety of diving services offered, which have somehow managed to elude publicity, until now that is! Khao Lak has no fewer than ten operators set up either in the beachfront resorts or dotted along the main thoroughfare. Diver education is prominently flaunted on large billboards and shop fronts, along with a number of rather unique services, but they will be featured in the October edition of 'Thai Diver' |
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