As part of their 6-month internship programme, the Sea Bees Assistant Instructors had the opportunity of learning about the local recompression chamber. So, one fine Sunday morning, everyone gathered at the hospital. / Im Rahmen ihres 6-monatigen Ausbildungsprogramms, ergab sich für die angehenden Instruktor Assistenten die Möglichkeit, die örtliche Dekompressions-Kammer zu besuchen und etwas über ihre [...]
This is just too much for the PR Inbox… Koh Phi Phi Team – please could you take a day off! Excellent work – all of you. Have a beer on me. How come you get the stunning Argentinian models – everyone here is soooooooo jealous! Hold on a minute – how come you get [...]
Jetzt werden sich sicher einige von Euch fragen, warum wir hier in Khao Lak ein Bergfest veranstalten und was das eigentlich ist. Some of you (non-Germans) might ask yourselves what strange things the team in Khao Lak are doing – celebrating half the season… (yes, a lot of us are). Um es gleich am Anfang [...]
Some of the strange places fish live… it’s all about location, location, location! In bottoms: Pearlfish Inside another animals’ bottom might seem like very worst place to be, but there are big advantages to the pearlfish’s chosen home. “The key thing for fish living on coral reefs is to find somewhere to hide and [...]
UK scientists have found prodigious numbers of a new crab species on the Southern Ocean floor that they have dubbed “The Hoff” because of its hairy chest. The animal was discovered living around volcanic vents off South Georgia. Great piles of the crabs were seen to come together. The creature has still to be formally [...]
Und schon wieder eine Neueröffnung für Sea Bees. Nach der Basiseröffnung auf Koh Phi Phi im Juni und dem Laguna Office auf Phuket im Herbst eröffnete Sea Bees jetzt die dritte Zweigstelle in Khao Lak: im JW Marriott Hotel. / We are pleased to announce the opening of our 3rd outlet in Khao Lak at [...]
An observant tourist yesterday spotted a young green sea turtle floating in the water off the Yacht Haven Marina in Mai Khao, in the north of Phuket, and by doing so may have saved its life. The Phuket Marine Biological Center (PMBC) was immediately contacted, who in turn asked the Phuket Kusoldharm Rescue Foundation for [...]
Nach 2 anstrengenden aber auch lustigen Wochen und 2 “harten” Prüfungstagen auf der Excalibur hat Matt endlich seinen SSI Open Water Instruktor bestanden. Wir bedanken uns bei Neil als Instruktor Trainer und auch bei Al als SSI Certifier. / Sea Bees is pleased to announce that Matt Wild recently qualified as an SSI Instructor. After two [...]
Animals may sense chemical changes in groundwater that occur when an earthquake is about to strike. This, scientists say, could be the cause of bizarre earthquake-associated animal behaviour. Researchers began to investigate these chemical effects after seeing a colony of toads abandon its pond in L’Aquila, Italy, in 2009 – days before a quake. They [...]
The Australian government says it plans to establish the world’s largest marine reserve in the Coral Sea. Environment Minister Tony Burke said the protected zone would cover an area more than one-and-a-half times the size of France. New fishing limits would be imposed and and exploration for oil and gas banned. The proposal is subject [...]
