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Ten military aircrafts will be sunk off Phuket at Chern Talay!

There will be 4 Douglas C-47 Skytrain as well as 6 Sikorsky Helicopters.

The sinking will happen in May and we are hoping to dive the new wrecks as soon as next high season.

Great news indeed as Euro-Divers maintains a dive center at Laguna Beach Resort very nearby.

Eager wreck divers, get ready for some great dives!

Quelques très bonnes nouvelles:

Dix avions militaires seront coulés à Phuket à Chern Talay!

Il y aura 4 Douglas C-47 Skytrain et aussi 6 Hélicoptères Sikorsky.

Les appareils couleront en mai et nous espérons plonger sur ces nouvelles épaves dès la prochaine haute saison.

Bonnes nouvelles en effet puisqu' Euro-Divers maintient tout près un centre de plongée à Laguna Beach Resort.

Plongeurs d'épaves passionnés, préparez-vous pour quelques superbes plongées!

If you go anywhere around South Phuket, you cannot miss this majestic landmark on the mountain ridge. There will actually be two Buddha immages once the project is completed. The smaller one will be devoted to HM Queen Sirikit while the larger one will be devoted to HM Majesty King Bhumibol. When completed, the Phra Puttamingmongkol Akenakkiri Buddha will stand at 45 meters, covered with more than 130 tons of Burmese marble! It is a fantastic place to visit, one of Phuket's top 10.

Yes, that's the name of the place. If you are looking for great Thai food in Patong, this is a good place to go. It is not far behind Rio Bar. An open restaurant, plastic chairs, fans.

Nobody is left indifferent by Patong's night life. One either loves it or hate it! The Rio Bar is a good place to make up your mind as it is at the cross road of Patong's busiest read light area.
They offer good food in great quantities, reasonable prices for drinks and good seating to observe all the people walking up and down Bangla road. Inside there are pool tables and the staff is always happy to play a game with you when they are not busy. Some of hem are very good.

Behind the Club Med there is a perpendicular road where you can find Everest Restaurant where they serve Indian/ Pakistani food that is quite good and affordable. The place itself is not much to talk about but the friendly staff more than make up for it.

Derriere le Club Med a Kata se trouve une rue perpendiculaire ou se situe le restaurant Everest (Everest Restaurant) ou l'on peu deguster plusieurs plats delicieux. Le batiment est tres simple mais l'equipe de cuisine et de service rendent l'experience tres agreable.

The wall and caves, rocky outcrops and reef patches on the northern end of the bay offer a very diverse underwater topography. Crevices and walls at this dive site are abundant with clusters of zigzag oysters and fan oysters. Feather stars in a multitude of colours, cling and grow on sea whips and sea fans and interesting commensals like tiny squat lobsters and Clingfish can be seen here. Towards the end of the day pelagic fish can bee observed hunting around and gobbling up everything that comes within their paths. Turtles and Zebra Sharks are a common sight and critter lovers won’t be disappointed either.

By the way, it is in Thailand and not in Estonia as suggested above but I simply cannot change this from the Nomao program.

La topographie de Maya Bay, rendue celebre par le film “La Plage”, ressembe boucoup a Koh Bida Nok avec des crevasses, des tombants des passages surblombes et decores de Coraux et d’Huitres. Il est frequent d’y rencontrer de petits Requins Pointe Noire ainsi que des Tortues et des Requins Zebres. Ceux qui sont passionnes par les invertebres ne seront pas desapointes.

The Mergui Archipelago in Myanmar comprises 800 small islands north and east of the Burma Banks. Some islands offer huge boulders, soft corals, sea fans, and excellent visibility. Others, such as Black Rock and Three Islets, offer wall diving, caves and drop-offs.
The region has remained relatively untouched by the passage of time this past half century, and it maintains a mystical out-of-this-world aura of years gone by. When visiting these islands on live-aboard charters you really can forget about your worries, on a journey of discovery, unhurried by time and untroubled by others, as you dive Burma and explore these fascinating islands in peaceful solitude.
The Burma Banks are the most famous Burma diving destination, and they rise to within fifteen metres of the Andaman Sea surface, before plunging back down into the surrounding 300 metres deep waters. These open ocean sea mounts used to attract large pelagics and schooling fish from the surrounding waters. Sadly enough, they have been fished out in recent years and smarter live-aboard operators try to persuade their guests not to go out there, to prevent disappointed divers.
Adrenaline-rich drift dives is what made the Burma Banks famous and shark encounters were virtually guaranteed. Not any more! One can be lucky if he sees one or the other nurse shark and maybe a medium sized potato cod. Apart from that, the Banks nowadays resemble more to the surface of the moon and people get bored after just a single dive. Problem is, once you’re out there, there is nowhere else to go, as the Banks are a long way out.
That does not mean that Burma is dead. In the contrary… Burma has much, much more to offer than just the Burma Banks.
Other residents and visitors in the Mergui Archipelago include grey reef, white tip and whale sharks. Schools of mobula rays and manta rays are also frequently seen around places like Black Rock and Little Torres Island. Burma diving has become a macro lover paradise, with plentiful Nudibranchs, clown frogfish, ghost pipefish, ribbon eels, as well as masses of lobsters, crabs and shrimps - in fact, there's far more marine biodiversity here than in the more popular Thai dive destinations.
Myanmar diving is exploratory frontier diving with regular discoveries of new sites. One of the main attractions here is to dive into the unknown. It will appeal if you want to escape the mass commercialism of nearby Thailand - those without a spirit of adventure need not apply!

A part of India, the Andaman Islands are one of the world's newest diving destinations and have yet to be properly explored for diving.
After a 60 year period of virtual isolation from the outside world the Indian government has made a decision to allow limited, environmentally conscious tourism development in the islands.

The Andaman Islands are a group of 274 islands of which 26 are inhabited.
They are located 480 nautical miles west-north-west of Phuket. The distance from India, to which they belong, is more than 600 miles. The Nicobar Islands are strictly off-limits but the Andamans opened up to cruising yachts and live-aboard dive boats a few years ago. Recently, the Chambers of Commerce of Phuket and the Andaman Islands signed several friendship and cooperation treaties and communication between the two island provinces is improving.

The Andamans have no modern fishing fleet and only very few commercial fishing licenses are granted to foreign operators. Thus, the islands’ fish stocks are plentiful and most of the diving areas have been dived by only a few people. In a short time some places, such as Barren Island (live volcano) and Narcondam Island (extinct volcano), became established divesites but most of the archipelago remains under-explored.

Although in many of the near shore areas the visibility is limited, the offshore islands such as Passage Island, Barren Island, and Narcondam are rich in marine life, huge fish, sharks, manta rays, unbelievable coral growth-and are blessed with crystal-clear water.

About 70 kilometers to the south of Port Blair, the capital and main port of the Andamans, Passage Island features an offshore pinnacle-appropriately named Fish Rock, where two meter long dogtooth tunas compete with sharks for food. Groupers larger than most men cruise the reef unafraid of divers. Large eagle rays patrol the plankton rich waters completely at ease in the strong currents.

The active volcano, Barren Island, almost 100 nautical miles cruising northeast of Port Blair, last erupted in January of 1994. The eruption covered almost everything underwater and above with a thick layer of black sand, creating an unusual landscape to explore. Although most of the coral was killed by this layer of sand, tunas and sharks swim along its black walls, which plunge to over 500 meters. Hammerhead sharks have been seen here. Visibility can exceed 50 meters, and even though there is not much coral left, the contrasting vivid colors of bright fish against the jet-black walls is almost psychedelic.

The Andamans are certainly not for everyone. It requires spending long periods of time on the boat and traveling almost every night in order to get to the best spots. However, for those interested in the best of frontier diving, this is it!

On May 1997 this passenger ferry sunk, on its way to Phi Phi, hitting the Anemone Reef…
Now, this big wreck sits on a sandy bottom of 32 meters. The water conditions require a good level and a certain experience to dive on. Strong currents are not uncommon and the visibility can be much reduced too. Due to the wreck’s location that close to the neighboring sites Shark Point and Anemone Reef, it is teeming with life and had a very fast population growth in just a short time. Big pelagics, Turtles, Bamboo Sharks, Nudibranchs and loads of Scorpion fish can be seen here. The Wreck is an extremely popular dive.

En Mai 1997, ce traversier en route pour Koh Phi Phi a percute Anamone Reef…
Il est maintenant couche sur le fond sableux de la Baie de Prangha a une profondeur de 32 metres. Les conditions parfois difficiles demandent une bonne experiance. Les courants sont souvant tres forts et la visibilite reduite. L’epave se trouvant pres de Shark Point et d’Anemone Reef, attire une vibrante multitude de vie marine et donc d’enormes Pelagiques, de Requins Bamboo, Tortues, Merous, Nudibranches et Poissons Scorpions en font maintenant leur domicile.

Koh Doc Mai offers great wall diving where U/W enthusiasts can often find frog fish, pipe fish and sea horses hiding around huge sea fans.

A single limestone outcrop is what in Thai is called “The Flower Island”, with sheer cliffs dropping down to the waterline and carrying on as a beautiful wall below the surface with small caves and lots of cracks and crevices to explore. The wall of this underwater cliff is encrusted with invertebrate marine life, incl. soft corals, sea fans, zigzag oysters and colonies of other bivalves, sponges and rich colored encrusting coralline. Unexpected encounters with big fish are not uncommon. Snappers, Fusiliers, Sweepers, Stingrays, Bamboo Sharks and Morays are some of the inhabitants of this site.

L’ile Fleurie, Koh Doc Mai en Thailandais, est une forteresse naturelle don’t les parois verticales plongent sous la surface et se transforment en un superbe mur compose de crevasses et de petites grottes qui invitent a l’exploration. Ce mur est incruste d’Huitres, de Coraux et de Bivalves. Les Vivaneaux, Fusilliers, Raies, les Murenes et les Requins Bamboo sont des residents permanents de Koh Doc Mai.