Into the jungle again! Breakfast is like dinner – not brilliant but it fills our stomachs. Then it is time to say goodbye and everything has to be put into the small boat again. On our ride back, we get the chance to enjoy the great landscape for a last time. Our walk to the [...]
At last – diving! Two dives are planned for today – wall and cave dives at Cheow Lan Lake in Khao Sok National Park. Logistics are a bit more difficult because we are moving to swimming cottages on the lake. This means packing everything up and getting it all into the car and then placing it [...]
A long long time ago, in a distant galaxy far far away – an idea had its birth on the small island of Phuket… So what is Sea Bees, a diving company, doing in the jungle some of you will ask? Well, we did as well and found out the answer at the same time: [...]
Our Quality Divers colleagues, Sinai Divers, are participating in the ‘Epson World Shootout’ and making all their dive centres, fleet and staff available to all and everyone who wishes to participate in these international underwater photography Olympics. This year is also unprecedented. Following 6 years of successful competitions this year is breaking all boundaries, introducing an [...]
As it is the season for whale sharks and manta rays, the following article is reproduced to help you understand why we are out diving whilst you are reading this! The Sea Bees Team ____________________________________________________________________________ I am underwater, staring back at an eye as big as a golf ball. Dark and limpid and knowing, the [...]
An explosion in the population of the predatory lionfish in Caribbean waters, where it has no natural predators, is posing a widespread threat to marine wildlife. Just off the north shore of Little Cayman, I sink into the blue abyss. No-one knows how the lionfish came to be in the Caribbean waters I am [...]
Enjoy this footage filmed last year in the Similans. The team were on our Marco Polo liveaboard and maximised their time underwater. Stunning footage and it will also give you the opportunity to improve your German! Enjoy… Schaut Euch das Video an, welches letztes Jahr an den Similans gedreht wurde. Unser Team von der Marco [...]
I wanted to drop a long over-due email regarding our scuba diving experience in Thailand. It originally wasn’t supposed to be a scuba diving trip. We were going snorkeling at the Similan Islands. We were on the excursion where one of the two motors on the boat stopped working. It was the week of March [...]
The recent announcement that a Canadian investor has sought provincial support for his plan to develop a 900-million-baht aquarium, resort and retail facility in Rawai, Phuket has generated much debate over the ethics of keeping dolphins in captivity. Soon after the announcement that dolphin performances were slated to be among the attractions at the aquarium, [...]
Marine archaeologists are in a race against time to preserve parts of a shipwreck they believe is the most significant found in British waters since the Tudor ship, the Mary Rose. Paul Rose, explorer, diver and presenter of Britain’s Secret Seas, visited the site. “We’ve watched it fall apart in front of our eyes for [...]
