The Wicked Team Marcel Bruijs – Our resident “Dutchie”. Aside from always having many many funny Dutch sayings and quotes for every possible situation imaginable, Marcel is a jack-of-all-trades including our faithful Educations Manager, Tech Diver, and Instructor Trainer Extraordinaire! Education and standards are his passion. Watch out if you drive too fast, dive too deep, break a standard or ignore your NDL’s….
As a former mechanical engineer he has a keen interest in just about anything technical. But as is happy to points out: being an engineer does not mean you can fix just about anything technical!
You can find him most of the time running around on the boat or in the shop drilling and shaping another group of Divemaster Trainees or playing with his Tech Diving gear, which he likes to clean and polish….. he sometimes even takes it on a dive…..
QUALIFICATIONS: SSI Instructor Certifier, PADI Master Scuba Trainer, DSAT Tec Deep Diver
What languages do you speak?
How long and where have you been diving?
What got you started in diving?
Why the Similan Islands and Khao Lak? What brought you here?
Best diving in Thailand, and a very laidback lifestyle, and the food at MAMA’s Restaurant and Coconut Grove of course….It was certainly not the bus that brought me to Khao Lak, as none of the bus drivers in Thailand seem to know Khao Lak!
What’s your favourite divesite in the Similans? Why?
Christmas Point, because I still find new boulders there every time I dive it.
Favourite Fish / Marine life?
Easy one, FROGFISH!!!
Favourite music at the moment?
Golden Earring (most famous Dutch band ever… after the Venga Boys)
Favourite food?
Doesn’t matter, as long as there is mayonnaise on top of it!!
Item or equipment you must have on every dive? Lucky charm maybe?
Magnifying Glass
Other interests, activities, hobbies or addictions?
Traveling through SE Asia, especially Indonesia
What do you do in the off-season?
Recharge the batteries for another season in Khao Lak
