Dear Seabees-Team Khao Lak,
thanks for the nice safari trip in January to Richelieu Rock and  to Similan Islands with Patrick, Martin, Ania. Above all I want to thank Patrick for his nice guiding and for being my personal Dive buddy. Patrick does wonderful briefings and takes care to all of us and prepares relaxed and interesting dives for me.
I think, Patrick is for the safari trips with genesis a good and delightfull choice as a careful tourleader with a special swedish charisma. Another plus factor is, that he is willing to learn some more german words, I think, he can learn quick and enlarge his vocabulary in about 2,5 month, like German people can also learn the Swedish language in this time, )). Also a lot of thanks to our British guide Martin, he is fun. And to Ania. She is also such a nice person and guide. Many thanks to the wonderful helpful crew from the boat and the best Thai cook (sorry, but I don`t remember her name!). And last but not least thanks to the Mantas, which we have seen at 3 different dive sides, ))

Meike

Sea Bees says: Hi Meike, the Sea-Bees team Khao Lak thanks you for your compliments. What a good idea to learn some more foreign languages during the dive intervals! How is your swedisch now? 

We signed up for two back to back 3 day cruises on the Genesis. The value is incredible. The boat is clean, efficient and organized. The diving involved more marine life than we have ever seen and we have dived Palau and Fiji. The food was fantastic with 5 meals per day. Cereal breakfast, full breakfast with eggs and cheese and bread and fruit (which is edible because they are careful about the water), lunch and dinner are about 4 Thai entrees not all spicy and a snack before the last dive. Our daughter has severe allergies to tomatoes and barley and they took care of her by leaving all tomatoes off the boat while taking care of 5 vegetarians at the same time. There are 3 dives on the first and last day and 4 on the middle day making this six days contain 20 possible dives. The Similan Islands are simpler diving and some of the others on the boat were new divers. The 12 divers are divided into groups of 3 to 5 and a dive master is assigned to each group. This helps because dive briefings may be in English and German and other languages but were always complete with drawings of the divesite. The best diving was on Richelieu Rock. We saw multiple cuttle fish in the same daytime dive, schools of fish that were measured in thousands, ghost pipefish, gorgeous soft corals and great visability in water so warm there was no need for a wetsuit. On other dives we saw some of the above and a zebra shark, blue spotted rays, frog fish, and many baby fish including some juvenile sergeant majors the size of bumble bees, and a tiny pissed off trigger fish. We also saw mantis, cleaner, banded and other shrimp, lobsters big enough to be scary, tons of clown and anemone fish, clown trigger fish and so many Lion fish that they got boring (still a little fun to photograph). We also saw scorpion and stone fish, loads of eels including honeycomb morays and free swimming eels on the wreck. We also spotted nudibranches, a hermit crab, giant sea fans, box fish and huge puffer fish. They even celebrated new years with champagne and aerial fireworks.

Karen Guthrie

Sea Bees says: Hi Karen, we are so happy to hear that you enjoyed your trip on the Genesis. It’s also amazing how many fish you have seen in those 6 days. Amazing Similans!

I had a wonderful experience doing my PADI open water training at Sea Bees. I had a good instructor in Michael and his experience as a trainer was a great help in my certification. It was a lot of fun and had good dives at Phuket. Thanks to Micheal and Seabees.

Ryan

Sea Bees says: Hi Ryan, we are delighted that you are a certified PADI Open Water diver now. We hope that you will gain much experience. Probably we will find you in the water a lot now! Have fun