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Whaleshark at Richelieu Rock Whaleshark at Richelieu Rock
Similan - 12/01/2009 3:23 AM
Finally, after the season is already 6 weeks old, we met the Whaleshark yesterday at Richelieu Rock while diving from Manta Queen II! But even if we were hoping every day to see one, it is still quite early in the season for them. Summary; if we already found one now, we might be even more lucky from January on :-)...
Reef clean up Richelieu Rock
Similan - 11/29/2009 5:51 AM
at the third trip with manta queen 1 a fishing boat left quickly richelieu rock when we appeared. they had dropped their net when they saw us, and the net covered then the top of the rock. vic, tik, dan and mr.cru removed it successfully and we sent it together with some pictures to the similan island marine park office....
Liveaboard trip october 2009
Similan - 11/29/2009 4:33 AM
Manta Queen I _05 24/10 – 28/10 The afternoon of the 24th, two hours before Manta Queen I was departing, we decided spontaneously that I will join the trip to the Simlan Islands. So hurry, hurry, quickly packed some stuff and off to the boat! Around 6.30pm we left khao lak to taplamu, where the boat and the crew were waiting for us. First look at the boat and a briefing, what to do, what not to do, how to do what… seemed like a lot of rules, but indeed everything was well thought about and runni...