Saturday, February 9, 2008

Map to Our shop!


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We are located right in the center of Khao Lak, right on the Main road. We are right next door to Viking Steakhouse.

Located less than One hour North of Phuket airport, Khao Lak is quite accessible to the whole world!

This is also the main route for buses are cars between Phuket and Bangkok, so easy to get to.



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Friday, February 8, 2008

Overnight Schedule/Itinerary

Overnight trip schedule

Diving Schedule for Netnawee

 

 Day 1

9am        Depart from Taplamu/ Boat briefing

 11am      Dive safety briefing

12noon    Lunch

1.30pm    Dive 1  Island #6 Eel Garden (check dive)

3:00pm Snacks

4.30pm  Dive 2   Island #7 West of Eden

6pm   Dinner/ check into tents/transfers to island

Day 2

6.40am   Pick up from island

7:30 Dive 1 – East Of Eden

8.30am Breakfast 

10.30am  Dive 2 island #7 Deep Six

12noon  Lunch

1.30pm  Dive 3   Island #4 West of Eden?

3pm  Snacks/ transfer to island for time on the beach/ time to snorkel, walk nature trails

5.30pm  Night Dive Briefing

6:30pm Night Dive

7.30pm   Dinner/ transfers to island

Day 3

6.40am   Pick up from island

7.30am   Dive 1 Elephant head rock

8.30am  Breakfast

10.30am  Dive 2 Island # 9 Breakfast bend

12noon  Lunch

1.30pm  Dive 3 Koh Bon


3pm   Snacks

6pm   Arrive at Tublamu pier


Snorkeling Schedule for Netnawee

 


Day 1

9am    Depart from pier/ Boat briefing

11am    Dive safety briefing

12noon    Lunch


1.30pm  Transfer to island #4 snorkeling off the beach

Pick up/Snacks on boat

4.30pm  Transfer onto island Free Time! Relax,
snorkel walk nature trails

6pm   Dinner/ check into tents/transfers to island


Day 2

8.30am   Pick up from island

8.30am   Breakfast

10.30am   Site 1   Island #7 Shallow Six

12noon  Lunch

1.30pm   Site 2   Island #4 Honeymoon Bay

3pm  Snacks/ transfer to island for time on the beach/ time to snorkel, walk nature trails

5.30pm   Pickup from island

7.30pm   Dinner/ transfers to island

 

Day 3

6.40am   Pick up from island time to relax on boat

8.30am  Breakfast

9am  Site 1  Island #8 Donald duck bay

10.30am  Site 2  Island # 9 Breakfast bend

12noon  Lunch

1.30pm  Site 3     Koh Bon Bay

3pm  Snacks

6pm   Arrive at Tublamu pier




Thursday, February 7, 2008

Happy Birthday Poy!



















Yesterday we celebrated Poy’s 20th birthday. As a newly certified Open Water student Poy has just discovered the new world under the surface of the water which we all love so much and loves it just as much as we do!
He got a few special surprises first from his sister Ohm who sent him Fins, Mask and a wetsuit and also from everyone here at Wicked diving, a trip on our 3 Day 2 Night overnight trip on the boat Netnawee.

Looking forward to having you on the trip with us Poy and Happy Birthday!

Monday, February 4, 2008

Khao Lak Divng – Our DM Challenge


The day finally arrived when 3 of our Wicked dive master trainees entered the big wide world of diving professionals and have become divemasters! Here they are shown with their mentor Marcel and other divemasters Becky and Robyn.


Throughout the divemaster course the girls had a lot of help from all our instructors and staff but they get allocated a mentor specifically to them who helps them throughout the course. Marcel was the lucky one to be responsible for their development and has helped the girls in many ways from the theory side of the course to building up their experience and confidence practically in the water. Now the girls are all set and ready to work… anyone have any offers? To complete the last part of their training the last thing to do was a dive master challenge. The location for this spectacular event was The Happy Snapper, Khao Lak.





Step ONE…

Challenge number 1

To guide a dive and find animals of interest, whilst staying together as a group.

Dive Site : Happy Snapper
Dive Time : 5 Minutes
Marine Life : Turtle
Shark
Whaleshark

To put their team-working skills to maximum use the girls were all joined together (the use of tape was handy here) , and Beyla and Mel were given a mask which they could not see out of at all (because they were covered completely in tape) However Anna was able to see out of her mask meaning that her fellow dive master trainees were going to have to trust her completely… This was of course carried out whilst drinking a potent cocktail of alcohol from a bucket.

As things do at DM Challenges, things may not go quite as planned, and ended up with Keith rescuing them from planting their heads into the bar! After a lot of time spent on the floor, maybe they still need to practice some of their team skills!


Challenge number 2

Exam time…

As all the girls hated the exams we decided to make them answer exam questions in front of the whole bar. You can see the worried expression on there faces as they have to deal with the pressure of it all, luckily the questions weren’t too hard and there was no pass or fail…otherwise who knows what the result would have been.

Challenge number 3

The songbird…

Whilst not part of the divemaster course Beyla, has been earning a reputation for her brilliant voice in the Happy Snapper on open mic night, and what better way to finish her divemaster training than a song with backup from her 2 fellow divemasters?



The celebration carried on and at some point Marcel foolishly got out the permanent marker pen. Combined with just a little alcohol consumption… people were drawing on each others t-shirts and all over their bodies. The girls had many messages wishing them good luck amongst other things, although I think Beyla was a little disappointed to find that her message from Marcel had been written on all the girls t -shirts.







A lot of people woke up with blue stained sheets or in the case of Marcel, arrived at the wicked office to be greeted by a lot of laughter from a bunch of our guests, it took him a while to realise that he had forgotten to clean the attractive moustache that had been painted on his face the night before.



So we just want to say from everyone here at Wicked Diving thank you Beyla, Mel, and Anna for all the good fun over the last months and good-luck with everything in the future!


Khao Lak Diving