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The boats, the schedule, the rules
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Liveaboard, or simply called Diving Safari, stands for a few days of living and having fun on a boat, with which you cruise between different dive destinations, which are too far out for normal daytrips, and go for diving from this boat.
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These boats specially built for this purpose are furnished
with sleeping cabins ( twin-or doublebed ), showers, toilets, living and
dining rooms. Equiped for diving activities they have a diving platform,
brackets for the tanks and wet areas for dressing and preparing. For the
refilling of the tanks they have silent compressors.
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All boats fulfill the International Safety Standarts and are
equipped with livejackets, flare guns, fire extinguisher, radio, GPS and
depthsonar, Oxygen Unit and staff are trained on Medic First Aid, and can
organise the transfer to the nearest deco- chamber if necessary.
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The boats are navigated by very experienced captains who know very well all the divesites around. The rest of the crew consists of a deckman, a machinist, the cook ( the most important man on board ), a multilingual guide who is responsible for the schedule on board and divemasterS who make a safe and successful diving possible. All together
they will give you an unforgettable adventure. Before each dive there will be a comprehensive briefing, so listen carefully.
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What is included ?
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For all trips full meals are included for the whole day with
snacks and fruits between the meals, and also drinking water, tea and coffee
as much as you want.
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Also included is the transport to and from the port with the
car.Tanks, weights, tank- fillings and divemaster service are included.
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What to bring ?
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Your diving gear if you have it or you can rent it from us
for 700Baht/day.
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Bring some money for the entrance fee to the Similan
National park (400Baht/pers) and diving fee for the National Park
(200Baht/day). For trips to Birma, you will need a visa (150U$).
Bring also your sunscreen, sunglasses and hat against the burning sunrays, a
rainjacket just in case, and a pullover( the temperature at sea during the
night can be fresh sometimes, and after night dives you might need it to warm
up), and some changing clothes.
And don’t forget your camera or handycam!!!!
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The divesuit should be a long one (3-5mm). A hood and gloves
are not necessary.
Seasick tablets are available on board if necessary.
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Things to be aware of
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As you heard before the sun will burn more on the sea than
on land, so do not expose your skin too long to the sun. Because you loose
water by diving ( dehydration ) and sweat a lot by sun- bathing it is
important to drink a lot, mainly water and less coffee and alcohol ( both
deprieves additional water from the body which you first will feel in fatigue
and headache ), to avoid problems drink a lot of water regularly!
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| Also take care when the air- condition is set too cold, it is easy to catch a cold and then diving is gone, and also avoid standing in the draught to avoid ear- infections (important to dry the ears after diving ). |
How to behave ?
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Friendly, helpful and considerate, on board we all sit in
the same boat and the community is what counts. Together there is more fun.
While diving look for ample buoyancy, the divesites belong to the top ten
divedestinations in the world and are protected by the mark of the national
parks.
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It is our goal to preserve them, so do not crash anything,
do not touch and take with anything. It is a wonderful idea to make pictures,
but watch your boyancy. Do not forget that we are in tropical waters, this
means there are poisonous animals and corals present. Our guide will mention
them by the briefing. There are no agressive animals around, only some curious
ones. If we behave and preserve the environment and there is have nothing to
fear and the dives will become an unforgettable adventure.
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What about the schedule ?
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| In the evening you will enter the boat and receive dinner and boat- briefing |
ca. 7.00 pm |
| During the night you head to the islands and
will do the first dive next morning |
ca. 8.00 am |
| Breakfast at |
ca. 9.00 am |
| Second dive at |
ca. 11.00 am |
| After this dive you will have lunch at |
ca. 0.30 pm |
| Now is the time for relax till the next dive at |
ca. 2.00 pm |
| After this dive you get again some food, the dinner at |
ca. 6.00 pm |
| After dinner it is your choice to make an amazing night dive at |
ca. 8.00 pm |
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When you come back it is time to party and talk about what
you have experienced during the day till... The next days the schedule will
nearly be the same on different divesites. On the last day we come back to
Chalong or Tap Lamu depending on the boat.
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This schedule is just to give you an idea of the program and
is approximative It may depend on the boat and the destinations. Changes in
the program can change altogether, if the sea condition makes the scheduled
dive sites unreachable, but this would be an exception.
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For special details, boat- plans, schedules and prices please have a look to the corresponding boats.
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