Today Mairi and Keith completed their 4 day open water diver course at big blue 1 in koh tao, thailand!
We can now dive to 18m and have completed 4 dives. Our very first was called mango bay and we did see some cool fish but most of our time was spent adjusting our breath and buoyancy vests (BC) as hovering in the water takes a bit of getting used to!
Big blue was our dive resort choice, some other nelsonites had done their OWDs there and recommended it. Super awesome, helpful, witty staff! Skui, a girl from Finland, was our instructor and she was great! Our other dive sites were : twins, chumphon, white rock.
Today we explored the latter 2 dives and saw so many kinds of fish! Banner fish, moray eel, angel fish, triggerfish, yellow tail barracuda, clownfish (aka nemo!) , butterfly fish, urchin clingfish sea cucumbers, cleaner wrasse (that eat scabs..) and so many more. Tomorrow we have decided to go ahead and do our advanced open water as we get a discount and t enables us Togo to 30m and do 5 dives total! 2 technical : navigation and 30m dive enablement, and 3 elective courses which we think we will pick: buoyancy, night dive, and a ship wreck dive!
Tonight we watch our open water film as we had a camera guy on us all day!
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