Open Water Diver

Congratulations to Ferhat & Anja who just finished their Open Water Diver Course !!
Hope to dive with you again.

Koh Wai

This island is south from Koh Chang, around 40 minutes with a slowboat or 20 minutes with a speedboat. On the island there is the PAKARAN resort. Pakaran means CORALS. And that what they do. There is since 3 years a artificial reef, and it is growing. The resort do a lot for the underwater enviroment, as well we sell some fish and coral identification slates (so if you want you can take them underwater too) and the money goes to them. For this they also have a turltel nursory and they teach the fishermans and captains how to protect corals and how to not throw the anker on them. So a good reason to support. Beside this there is nothing else to do on that island only relax and have a chat with them. Stop not true on the other side of Koh Wai is a nice divespot as well. Unluckily the weather conditions mostly make it not possible to dive there.

Koh Yuak

Nice dives on Koh Yuak. And not only the dives it is a beautiful island, so with some sun we enjoyed out lunch on the sand beach.

Pool training

Easy open water training in the nice olympia pool. Thanks to my students and i am looking forward to the dives tomorrow !!

Koh Yuak

Yesterday we went to the beautiful island KOH YUAK. The island is located infront of Kai Bae Beach, there are 4 islands and the biggest of the small islands is Koh Yuak. With a speedboat we are there in only 10 Minutes. The island is most rocky with a nice small sand beach, where you also have some tree's - who give nice shadow. The corals start by 1,5 meters already and sergant majors come quickt to look if you have some food for them. The next level is around 6 - 8 meters, with a area of mushroom corals followed by anemons with there friendly 'nemo' fishes. On that spot we got 500 anemonfishes to let them into freedom, it was a project from a bangkok university together with the DASTA the national park quartier here on koh Chang. Always nice to visit them.

Just one day in the office

This is our main office it is located in Klong Prao, opposite you find the entreance to Klong Prao

Resort. Next to us is the HONDA Shop (if you want to rent a Motorbike on Koh Chang go to them, they service the bikes after each rent out !!) and on the other hand KO KI RI a Korean Restaurant (exelent BBQ !!) Klong Prao is in the middel of Koh Chang on the westcost (almost every thing on Koh Changt is on the west cost). Klong Prao Beach is the most beautiful Beach on this island, Only it is not good to snorkel, because there are no corals, just sand all the way out, and you can walk a long time until the water reach your hip ...

Privat Speedboat

Two days ago we went with a 'privat speedboat' for a nice group of Germans, first stop was the Beach from Koh Rang, with the diver i went to Koh Tiejn for a nice privat dive. Koh Tiejn is a shallow divespot with a lot of hump corals and with a field of large trompet corals up to 3 meter high !! Than we had lunch on the beach of Koh Da Lin (the captain told me the name - i do not know if i spelled it correct?) There we could watch some crap fight ... Just 5 minutes away was the next divespot Koh Tong Lang - always white eye morey aales .

On the way back we made a stop at monkey island and we got a big welcome from 2 monkey families, as nice guest we do had a pack with bananas for them!

Introduction Dive

Yesterday we had two italians, doing their introduction dive,

nice and good conditions made a perfect holiday day .

They were calm underwater and we saw a cuttlefish female who shoot direct ink to us .. hihihj

Diving on Local Sites !!

Diving on the local sites is not always possible in the lowseason, BUT today we went there and it was great, no waves, good visibility.

During the dive on the most brilliant divespot HIN LUK BAT we had companie from a group of 10 or more yellow fin bat-fish. They are soo cute and come so close to divers, specialy when you wear yellow fins (secret!!) Hin Luk Bat by it self is a multilevel divesite. There are 5 huge rocks, 1 always break the surface, and 2 by low tide, the others are short under the surface, down to 10 meters. The bottom is by 17 till 22 meters, the next level 10 till 12 meters and between the rocks and small area around is 4 till 6 meters and it is called the aquarium - guess why?!?!?!
The hole divespot is coverd with a vary of hard corals and some sponge, vase corals are all over and a big area is full of anemones with there famous clownfishes. Reef fishes live there in harmonie with great baraccudas and lot more ...

So we looking forward to the dive tomorrow

you want to join ???

Rainy season

It is not true that in the rainy season it is raining all the time !!
Now it is already one week without rain!
Actually the sun is out for many hours each day, so it is nice to be on the boat, just the risk of a sunburn is still there.
We are out to Koh Rang, it is nicer to dive around Koh Rang now a days, the visibility getting better day to day same with the sea, it is calm and quiet again.

So when do you come and join us ???

2nd day - diving on Koh Rang

Today is day nr. 2 that this blog is online ...

We went out to dive on Koh Rang national Park, it is 1 1/2 hour sailing. Today the waves are so less and the ride was beautiful with some sun some clouds so it was not to hot with a nice breeze ... always like that!!

Visibility is not perfect but 8 meters you can see a lot around here.

Nice dives and nice people make a good day !!

comments are welcome

Welcome

Just to get started,

In the first post i want to welcome everybody to scandinavian chang diving center blog,

in future i hope that many people from everywhere will post some good stories let us be part of good experiance, focus on beautiful dive spots and so on.....

so i will not do this to long - just welcome

and hope to read from all