Yes, the TV is screwing us all here. If you are booked for a trip in February, you really have no reason to cancel. CNN today was still talking about the "
devastated" island of Phuket. This is complete c**p. You can get very good updates of what is really happening at these web sites, and many more :
www.phuket.com
www.image-asia.com/post_tsunami_phuket_krabi.htm
www.phuket-photos.com
and
also many of the dive company web sites have updates, photos etc.
Yes, you should take their word for it, though of course we are not telling people that "nothing happened". We are realistic. We do not try and kid our customers, this would be extremely counter productive. We would not advise people to come and dive if it were unsafe, dirty, destroyed...that would just lead to many many complaints and would give the dive industry a bad name. We give people our best advise and if they do decide to cancel, well, then they may indeed have to take a $$ hit.
