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MV Scuba Adventure Liveaboard March 2012

Posted on April 2nd, 2012 by admin-scubacat-dw  |  Comments Off on MV Scuba Adventure Liveaboard March 2012

Northern Cruise to Similan Islands and Richilieu Rock

This trip left from Tap Lamu with Peter and Bente from Denmark, Emil and Patrick from Sweden and Urs from Switzerland. We sailed for a few hours to Koh Bon where we slept for the night. The first morning we had a check dive on Koh Bon Reef. Urs, who was doing his Advanced Open water course on board completed his deep adventure dive. The reef was active with beautiful schools of yellow snappers, the 2 resident golden trevellies made their appearance. The resident Napolean also made a visit.

Scuba Cat Diving Phuket Thailand Liveaboard

After breakfast Patrick did the skills for the Discover Scuba. He was very confident and managed the skills with ease. The second dive had octopus, cuttle fish, banded sea snake and a manta!!!! We decided to move to Koh Tachai where we attempted to do the Pinnacle. Unfortunately, the current was so strong that Kath couldn’t make it to the mooring line… Another time!! All was not lost as we headed to the reef where we had a gentle easy dive. The night dive was also on the Reef. Fred, the resident barracuda accompanied us throughout the dive trying to hunt by torchlight. For a predator, he is not good at catching his prey (maybe he needs glasses!!)

On day 2 we went to Richelieu Rock where we did 3 dives. Each dive was completely different. The school of barracuda were hanging around the crescent as usual. They are a magnificent sight. One of the first things we saw was a Devil Scorpion fish moving along the bottom. This dive site is an incredible place and offers so much diversity from large schools of fish to macro. Each diver really enjoyed looking into cracks and crevices to see what could be found…pipefish, shrimps, moray eels, mantis shrimps and so much more. A Devil Ray was seen at the surface during lunch. A rare sight!!! Our final dive was at Koh Tachai. Emil, Peter, Bente and Kath went onto the pinnacle with zero current. A vast change from the day before. Peter and Bente had to abort the dive. A pity, as it was truly amazing. A huge school of barracuda with hundreds of fish appeared and stayed for a while. The batfish were hanging around one of the boulders and the trevellies were menacing the snappers and fusiliers. Elaine, the Dive Master on the boat took Urs and Patrik onto the reef where they saw a turtle.

MV Scuba Adventure Sea Fan

The first dive on day 3 was on Koh Tachai. A good dive with some current. The soft corals and gorgonion sea fans are stunning. This dive site always has so much activity on it that it is difficult to put into words. You just have to experience it first hand. Our second dive of the day was on Koh Bon Reef heading towards the West Ridge. A manta made it’s appearance towards the end of the dive. Albeit a brief encounter it way still lovely to see this majestic creature. After dive 2 we headed to the Similan Islands and into Donald Duck Bay, where some of the customers went onto the beach to take photos from the view point. Urs completed his navigation dive as part of his advanced course. The natural navigation part of the dive was a dream with us finding a Green turtle sitting quietly under a rock. Our third dive on Three Trees was enjoyed by all on the boat. The reef is a sloping running reef on Island 9. There were several turtles in the shallows. We saw a Napolean Wrasse as we dropped in. Three Trees has an abundance of aquatic life. Our final dive of the day was a night dive on West of Eden. This site with the rocky formations and coral blocks is an ideal environment for many nocturnal creatures. There were plenty of lobsters, various crabs and shrimps. A free swimming giant moray was actively hunting. Always a great sight.

Day 4 and our final dives were on Shark Fin Reef. The South side has the most incredible rock formations. The enormity of the boulders is very imposing. During this dive we saw garden eels and numerous blue spot rays in the sand. We were lucky enough to see a huge bump head parrot fish hiding in a crack in one of the rocks. To see this fish so close was breath taking. The surgeon fish always look as if they are kissing the rock as they feed on the algae growing. Shark Fin also has the large boxfish, something that isn’t seen often on other sites in the Similans. Our final dive of the trip was on the north side of Shark Fin. Once again we saw the bump head parrotfish. The north side has rocks in the shallows and slopes gently to the bottom. A relaxing dive for the end of the trip.

MV Scuba Adventure Bump Head Parrot fish

Congratulations to Urs for completing his Advanced Open Water on the trip and to Patrik who had several dives on the Discover Scuba program. He is now bitten by the diving bug and will at some point in the future do the Open Water Course, so he can dive with his brother Emil.

Another Scuba Cat Diving Certificate of Excellence 2011

Posted on July 21st, 2011 by admin-scubacat-dw  |  Comments Off on Another Scuba Cat Diving Certificate of Excellence 2011

Another big thank you to Jelena Rsumovic who completed her internship with us during 2011. She  completed all courses with Scuba Cat Diving from Divemaster to Instructor.

Scuba Cat Diving Phuket Thailand Learn to Dive

Scuba Cat Diving Phuket Thailand Instructor Internship

“I had a very professional and organised environment where I completed my divemaster and instructor internship. The divemaster course was the hard one, but today like an instructor, I feel very confident about the skills that I had learnt. I had the opportunity to guide customers on the boats, assist courses etc. I have 200+ dives now, and I am thankful to Scubacat, Vince Callaghan my instructor on divemaster, Christophe Pace, my course director on my IDC and Sarah Kench – general manager of Scubacat for providing me all the support, experience, excellent education and made me the dive instructor I am today. should be very proud of this Dive Centre”

Another Scuba Cat Diving Certificate of Excellence 2010

Posted on July 19th, 2011 by admin-scubacat-dw  |  Comments Off on Another Scuba Cat Diving Certificate of Excellence 2010

Another big thank you to Geraldine Richard who completed her internship with us during 2010. She also completed all courses with Scuba Cat Diving from Divemaster to IDC Staff Instructor.

Scuba Cat Diving Phuket Thailand Instructor Internship

“Scuba Cat Diving Phuket provides the best facility to accommodate any candidate who is interested to go pro. All team members in the organisation demonstrated high professionalism and provided a strong support line. I had the most remarkable time and gained so much going pro and I find myself loving each minute of this career. Could not have happened without the strong and wonderful support of the folks who invested their time, personal time and energy.”

 

Scuba Cat Diving Certificate of Excellence 2010

Posted on July 19th, 2011 by admin-scubacat-dw  |  Comments Off on Scuba Cat Diving Certificate of Excellence 2010

A big Thank you to Andrea who completed his internship with us during 2010. He completed all his courses with Scuba Cat Diving from Open Water to IDC Staff Instructor.

Andrea Piantanida

“It has been a superb journey from doing my OW in 2009 to my OWSI in 2010. I’ve worked with many international and corporate teams in my career but nothing comes close to what I have experienced at Scuba Cat Diving. A dedicated, trained and professional team. They are to share my every bit of success today. Scuba Cat Diving is obviously a good training ground for any future instructors. Congratulations on an excellent course. I look forward to my continued education in your program, heading to MSDT and there after IDC Staff.”