funrecdiver
Contributor
Frankly, I am a big fan of diving from large, comfortable day diving boats that are boarded from solid concrete piers. In other words, the mini bus or songtaeow should take us and our dive kits from the dive center (or hotel) to the pier where we comfortably board the ship with our gear handled nicely. The dive boat should be a day diving boat, not a liveaboard and should cook nice fresh lunches on the boat between dives. A western style toilet with a holding tank would be a plus as would a clean on board compressor where we can blend nitrox and fill air tanks on demand would be a plus as well.
Where is this type of diving in the south?
During a recent week on Koh Tao I was told (and experienced first hand) the larger dive boats boarded by speedboat and long tail boat taxies. The (illegal) Burmese workers stacked and tossed the dive gear like it was garbage and broke my gear bag twice and actual diving gear in my bag once. Getting on and off the dive boat to the small taxi boats in rough seas added to the lack of my appreciation for this type of diving.
Now I am in a nice resort in Chumphon and deciding where we should go next to dive. We could go back to Pattaya to the comfy day boats where nice Thai workers handle our gear kits like they are actually something special on the pier, or we can go to anywhere in Thailand, further south by car.
Where in the South (Phuket, Krabi, etc) can we find nice comfy day diving boats boarded from nice concrete piers and not speedboat or long tail taxies?
Thank you!
Where is this type of diving in the south?
During a recent week on Koh Tao I was told (and experienced first hand) the larger dive boats boarded by speedboat and long tail boat taxies. The (illegal) Burmese workers stacked and tossed the dive gear like it was garbage and broke my gear bag twice and actual diving gear in my bag once. Getting on and off the dive boat to the small taxi boats in rough seas added to the lack of my appreciation for this type of diving.
Now I am in a nice resort in Chumphon and deciding where we should go next to dive. We could go back to Pattaya to the comfy day boats where nice Thai workers handle our gear kits like they are actually something special on the pier, or we can go to anywhere in Thailand, further south by car.
Where in the South (Phuket, Krabi, etc) can we find nice comfy day diving boats boarded from nice concrete piers and not speedboat or long tail taxies?
Thank you!
