We fianlly ran our much awaited first Explorer tour. After a crazy week of trying to organize the boat and the trip, while at the same time teaching openwater and advanced courses and running full day trips, we all met to depart at 10pm on Saturday at the dive shop. After a calm sleep journey we all awoke to a beautiful sunrise over Koh Tang and crystal clear water.
Before you could blink divers where gearing up and jumping in…our first dive was a shallow site covered in sea grass, here are a few of the critters we saw.
Octopus
Mantis Shrimp
Flasher Scorpion
We then headed across to Explore a new site. With visibility of 25m we decided to have a snorkel around first, within minutes of jumping in BiBi spotted a large Eagle Ray and everyone headed over to take a look.
After a good 20 minutes watching the eagle rays from the surface we all headed back to the boat to grab our scuba gear and go exploring. Here are some more pictures from the next two dives.
Big Vis
Scorpion Fish
Simon Checking out the fish
On the way to our next dive we noticed some submerged rocks and stopped the boat to explore, just the two instructors jumped in and within minutes I was surrounded by around 15 cobia with the biggest being around 2m in length, after waiting over a year to see my first cobia in Cambodia, and now I was surrounded by 15 it was awesome.
On the way back to the boat we came across a large anchor and now our boat as a shiny new anchor on board, always a good find. We then visited a large reef already named explosion reef, and all the divers enjoyed a good long dive as the max depth is around 10m.
We then moored up for the night dive, Tyler our most experienced divemaster then lead two night dives one after the other, showing the divers octopus, stingrays, cuttlefish and many other strange night creatures.
After a great dinner everyone headed to bed after a wonderful but exhausting day. Next morning we where greeted by another beautiful sunrise and headed over to two islands athat we have never visited to explore.
So a Big thanks to all the divers, Kerry, Steve, Emelie, Bart, Nev, Simon, and Merissa for making it a great first trip, also thanks to our divemaster trainees who all worked hard to make it happen, Simon, Shawn, John, Ash, Tyler, and BiBi who’s enthusiasm and passion for diving is inspiring.
We will be organzing another trip soon, hopefully the next trip will take us all the way to Koh Prins one of the even further islands.
Happy Exploring
The Dive Shop Cambodia
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