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Meet Swiss Monja, PADI Instructor on Manta Queen 1

18 June, 2016, 1:52 am Author: khaolakscuba | View 1696

My name is Monja and I am from Switzerland. I am Swiss and I speak French, German and English. I have been working for the past 3 season on Manta Queen 1 as dive guide and PADI dive and Nitrox Specialty instructor. I am passionate about scuba diving, the sea and the Kingdom of Thailand, I am a PADI divemaster since 2010 and I I did my PADI Instructor Development Course back in 2014. I w...

Meet Daren, ¨Team China¨ PADI Instructor at Manta Queen 3.

17 June, 2016, 11:27 pm Author: khaolakscuba | View 1516

Hi my name is Daren from Taiwan. If you see a tall, black, handsome guy with big smiling Asian face around the Similan Islands, Yeap that's me! As a PADI Diving Instructor I work with Khao Lak Scuba Adventures since 3 seasons and I will be next season too. It's a really cool and an amazing experience to work on Manta Queen 3 with Joe, Anja, Jeff and the r...

Meet Kate aka Long-Fin Bunny, PADI Instructor at Khao Lak Scuba Adventures

16 June, 2016, 10:51 pm Author: khaolakscuba | View 1578

My name is Kate Kuzmianok, known as well as Long-Fin Bunny. I "discovered" SCUBA in 2011 and have been hooked since. Scuba diving has given me the opportunity to make some great friends, travel to some incredible places, and to continue to challenge myself with new diving experiences. I love to travel and one of my goals is to explore the world both above and below the waves. I love t...

Meet our Swedish star Nathalie, PADI Instructor at Khao Lak Scuba Adventures

15 June, 2016, 9:34 am Author: khaolakscuba | View 1473

My name is Nathalie but everyone calls me NatNat. I'm 22 years old and a PADI Instructor with Deep and Nitrox specialty. I come from the icy north speaking Swedish and English. I've been working for Khao Lak Scuba Adventures for the two previous seasons. Before I came to Khao Lak I was traveling and fun-diving around South East Asia. On my spare time I like to sit in my hammock, day-...

Meet Daria, PADI Instructor at Khao Lak Scuba Adventures

8 June, 2016, 9:22 pm Author: khaolakscuba | View 1563

My name is Daria and I came here all the way from cold Poland. I am a PADI Dive Instructor and you can find me either underwater guiding dive groups on any of the Manta Queen boats or teaching PADI courses for Khao Lak Scuba Adventures. Diving is my passion, I breath and live sea water and can`t survive without salty breeze on my lips! From cold nothern seas, dark caves and world famous wrec...

World Ocean Day, June 8th

8 June, 2016, 2:42 am Author: khaolakscuba | View 1474

World Ocean Day, June 08. 2016 Check out the central coordinating platform for today´s World Oceans Day.

Help Isla fight Myeloid Leukaemia

31 May, 2016, 2:24 am Author: khaolakscuba | View 1691

We heard very sad news from Koh Tao that one of our dive family is suffering. Our good friend and manager of Big Blue Koh Tao Jim Donaldson's beautiful little 3yr old daughter Isla has Acute Myeloid Leukaemia- any parents worse nightmare. We are trying to support the raise of money to help the massive financial costs of her medication, as unfortunately the insurance only covers in-patien...

Fundraising event for Isla at Big Blue Koh Tao... and the winner of the Manta Queen 3 trip is?

30 May, 2016, 1:28 am Author: khaolakscuba | View 1375

Expression of thanks from Jim, manager of Big Blue Koh Tao and father of Isla. So tonight's the night. Tonight all my friends, my colleagues, my island brothers and sisters, my Koh Samui family, my Thailand diving community, have all collaborated and donated some of the most amazing, luxurious, delicious, expensive prizes to a raffle which will hopefully generate financial assistance in our...

Bye Bye Similan Islands, see you again 21. of October on first trip of the new diving season!

14 May, 2016, 9:37 pm Author: khaolakscuba | View 1506

Manta Queen 3 Similan Island Liveaboard set off, the boat filled with excitement it was the begining of the end, the last trip in the season. A last chance to say good bye to the Similan Islands. Day one started on Similan Island number 7 with a dive at West of Eden where the giant morays where cuddling together under the massive gorgonian sea fans. Dive two was at the famous Deep Six we vis...

Khao Lak Scuba Adventures awarded by PADI during the Thailand Diving Exhibition

13 May, 2016, 5:27 am Author: khaolakscuba | View 1333

Khao Lak Scuba Adventures has been awarded in the past 4 consecutive years with the prestigeus PADI Award for ¨Outstanding Contribution to Diver Education¨ and ¨Instructor Development´

THE FINAL TRIP of Manta Queen 2, season 2015/2016. See you again in October!

13 May, 2016, 2:45 am Author: khaolakscuba | View 1265

Similan Island, 3 days and 3 nights Diving Safari with Manta Queen 2. Fantastic trip! We could not wish for better last trip of the season on our beautiful, comfortable boat!! We had only 14 people on board. All very friendly and great people. During the first day we saw some really magnificent marine life Koh Bon and Koh Tachai have to offer. We found some rare nudibranches, leopard sha...

New massive Frog fish discovered at Koh Bon Hin Luang

12 May, 2016, 2:15 am Author: khaolakscuba | View 1405

Manta Queen 6 Trip Number 229, Similan Island 4 days and 4 nights liveaboard. The first day of the trip on board Manta Queen 6 began at Anita's Reef where we had sightings of Parrot Fish, Trumpet Fish and hiding on the bottom, Garden Eels. Then we did the second dive at West of Eden where we found the resident of this dive site – Spearing Manta Shrimp. The third dive was in Deep Six...

End of Season for Manta Queen 1 see you back on 14. of October

11 May, 2016, 1:34 am Author: khaolakscuba | View 1238

Once again guests and for the last time until 14. of October divers from all over the world joined a fantastic 4 days and 4 nights Similan Island Liveaboard aboard Manta Queen 1. A key factor to my love for working in this job and in this place is our international divers! The first day of the trip on board Manta Queen 1 began at Anita's Reef where we had sightings of Parrot Fish, Trumpet F...

Similan Island Charter trip from Hong Kong

10 May, 2016, 2:34 am Author: khaolakscuba | View 1502

Similan Island Charter aboard Manta Queen 3 We set sail for four days of adventures with a chartered boat of 17 friends from Hong Kong - we already know this is going to be a fun trip! We started our adventures down in the beautiful Similan Islands with 2 dives on Island #7 at West of Eden and Deep Six, where we saw baby frogfish, turtle, pipefish, spearing mantis shrimp and of course beauti...

Mind blowing diving at the Similan Island National Marine Park

9 May, 2016, 2:09 am Author: khaolakscuba | View 1299

Manta Queen 3, 4 days and 4 nights Similan Island Liveaboard trip number 220 mind blowing diving! 24th April 2016 First day in the Similan Islands National Park and 4 incredible dive sites. Dive 1 'West of Eden' we had warm and calm water and already the fish are happy to see us. Plentiful marine life, gorgeous healthy coral and huge sea fans created the perfect ambiance for the firs...