Dear all,
It was an incredible week here at Dive@ Charm Churee Villa, even after all of the dive staff being here for more than a year and a half, we have all found something during a dive that we have never seen before!
It started with Andi, during a night dive for an Advanced Open Water Course, he came across a type of nudibranch that he hadn't seen since diving on Koh Tao. Andi is a macro-diver, he loves finding the small stuff and was excited to have found this during a night dive. Unfortunately, he has done a few more dives on Three Rocks since, with the camera, but has been unable to find it again :(
Then, P went diving on Shark Island and, despite numerous dives on this dive site, she found what she at first thought was a surgeonfish. Then, as it stuck up its trigger to attack something floating in the water, she realised that it was a teeny version of the Titan Triggerfish and caught it on camera. After looking on the internet, it turned out to be a Pinktail Triggerfish! Much smaller than the normal triggerfish we get around Koh Tao, and seemingly more friendly, she was exitied to show everyone the pictures and video that she got!
Finally, after hundreds of dives on our house reef, Three Rocks, Margo had taken some fun divers over and was confused when she saw what she thought was a blue-spotted stingray, a creature that we have in abundance here on Koh Tao. However, when the sand settled and her eyes refocused, she realised it was not this common stingray, but a MUCH larger and lesser seen Jenkin's Whipray! She was so impressed by this that she called everyone in excitement, even P who was enjoying a nice, relaxing day off to tell them her news!
Between the 3 of us, we have well over 4000 dives here on Koh Tao so we have all felt the invigoration at each coming across something new to all of us. It just goes to show that, even if you have enjoyed a dive site for many dives, doing one more dive there does not mean you will see only the same things.
There are many weird and wonderful creatures of the deep, many of which we as professional divers, see on a regular, if not daily basis, but nothing can describe the feelings we all get when we can come out of a dive here and say, "I've NEVER seen THAT before!!!!"
vrijdag 10 juni 2011
zaterdag 4 juni 2011
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Welcome at our Blog from Dive @ Charm Churee Villa,
Dive @ Charm Churee Villa is a PADI 5 Star Dive Center, and we are located on the resort Charm Churee Villa and Koh Tao Bamboo Huts.
We offer all PADI Courses from Bubble maker to Divemaster and we also offer boat dives 2 times a Day around the Island Koh Tao with the favorite dive spots: Chumphon Pinnacle, White Rock, Twins, South West Pinnacle, Red Rock, Green Rock and much more.
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