Archive for the ‘Phuket & Khao Lak’ Category

Marco Polo gets into its first groove of the season (2011-11-17)

Marco Polo headed out on its first trip of the season with Mike and Huby at the helm. Heading up towards The Similans, they made the most of the stunning underwater landscape. What a great way to spend your Surface Interval – amongst nature. Can’t improve on the original – so no photoshop used here! [...]

Horse Racing, Dogs, Children in Need, Diving & Champagne at 9am – what is Sea Bees up to? (2011-11-8)

Only in Phuket could we manage to link these all together… and help raise over 400,000 Baht in one morning. Horse Racing: The first Tuesday of every November is the day for the Melbourne Cup – literally the “race that stops a nation”. And to make the most of this day – the Andara Resort [...]

Sea Bees adds new Specialty / Das neue Sea Bees Specialty (2011-10-14)

Martin, who has been in Europe for the summer, has been concentrating on a new specialty which he will be offering as of 1st November from our Chalong Centre. / Martin, der während des Sommers in Europa war, hat die Zeit intensiv genutzt und wird ab dem 1. November ein neues Specialty auf unserer Basis in [...]

The Big Cleanup (2011-10-9)

Sea Bees Diving is taking part in the Phang Nga Bay Conservancy ‘A Day in the Bay Cleanup’ to be held next Saturday 15th October. Together with other members of the local community, we are out to do our bit to keep Flip (the fish in the logo below) happy! One Sea Bees Diving boats [...]

Ex-Sea Bees Employee comes home (ok, just for a holiday!) (2011-10-7)

Alex, who used to work for Sea Bees, came back to visit us as he was so homesick! But this time he brought along a beautiful wife and an awesome 8 month old baby boy. To keep everyone happy, he arrived bearing chocolate, sausage, gummy bears and a host of lovely edible presents for his [...]

Muay Thai Boxer heads underwater for Boxing Shrimp / Auf der suche nach dem Boxing Shrimp (2011-9-16)

After a 4 week intensive course at a Muay Thai training camp, Joe Newitt decided it was time for a bit of fun in the water so he decided to do his SSI Open Water Diver Course. A good decision. Because of Joe’s motivation and natural curiosity, the course was quite easy for our instructor [...]

Welcome to our new Junior Open Water Divers (2011-9-2)

The Sea Bees Team would like to congratulate Anousheh and Alex on completing their Junior Open Water Diver Course. Their positive attitude, superb mask clearing and big Big BIG smiles ensured that everyone on the boat had a great time! Julie has still not stopped talking about you and is really proud to have been [...]

Matthew – Sea Bees’ latest DM off to conquer University (2011-8-22)

Well, Matthew disappeared for 3 weeks and, whenever we asked after him, his instructors said that he was ” busy at the moment”. Suddenly, Matthew seemed to have several instructors, each putting him through his paces in their own style. And, finally, on the day he was leaving to return to England, he was told [...]

The Mantis Shrimp – World’s Fastest Punch (2011-8-17)

Mantis shrimps are mere inches long but can throw the fastest punch of any animal. They strike with the force of a rifle bullet and, with the aid of super-speed cameras, we can truly appreciate how powerful this animal is.  (And the online administrator is OBSESSED WITH THEM!) A few years ago, an aggressive creature [...]

Team Sea Bees gets the wind up its sails (2011-8-11)

Team Sea Bees took part in Six Senses Raceweek, now one of Asia’s most popular regattas. With perfect sailing conditions – wind, rain, waves and enough squalls to keep everyone happy, Peter Dyer and the Sea Bees crew got to grips with challenging conditions and ended up with a third place. IRC 2 class was [...]