Latest entry requirement to Thailand

[dumpsterpurrs]

Interesting, I was at that wreck on December 21st and it was totally boring. 3-5m visibility, no corals, no fish to speak of, and the wreck was completely stripped of anything before it was sunk, only thing left is a bare hull.

The fish must have adapted! Everything else is true to your description, and usually I'm a pretty corals kind of girl, but from the second we dropped down my breath was taken away. I have been extremely impressed with Phuket's marine biomass so far, esp the massive bait balls, but this one takes the cake even without any corals. Imagine being in a cloud of baby barracuda frantically hunting, and you're their bait.

 

[Barmaglot]

Now you've got my interest piqued... was that on a day trip or a liveaboard?

 

[Dan]

@Dan are you going South at all? We were at this new wreck, I think around Koh Ma or something like that, near Koh Haa, sunk last December. no corals yet but SO MUCH FISH. SO ELECTRIFYING. that's what I'd call a high voltage dive. fish buzzing around like a large, dense swamp of bees.

No. We are heading out to Similan tomorrow.

That new wreck site sounds great! Good to know for next time. Thanks for letting me know.

 

[Dan]

We Covid-19 tested everyone onboard, including myself before sailing tomorrow. Everyone’s swab test result is negative. So we are good to go.

 

[Dan]

The fish must have adapted! Everything else is true to your description, and usually I'm a pretty corals kind of girl, but from the second we dropped down my breath was taken away. I have been extremely impressed with Phuket's marine biomass so far, esp the massive bait balls, but this one takes the cake even without any corals. Imagine being in a cloud of baby barracuda frantically hunting, and you're their bait.

Did you video the dive?

 

[dumpsterpurrs]

Now you've got my interest piqued... was that on a day trip or a liveaboard?

LOB. Gentle Giant. DMs a bit clueless and annoying but the boat and crew are both amazing.

Did you video the dive?

I wish I did! You wouldn't be able to see anything except fish ZOOMING left and right. They were HUNTING, not leisurely moving around or grazing, but aggressively hunting. It was SO WEIRD. I haven't seen such insane density outside of the most unethical tanks in the fish market!

I'm back in Phuket, did two 80-mins dives with Aloha Divers on their own private boat. Two instructors, two divers. We could stay for as long as NDL and air allow. It was amazeballs. I usually only start to fully relax and get "in the zone" around 40 mins. Usually that's the end of the dive, but today, I had a whole entire second half of the dive to just relax. Highly recommend these guys.

 

[Centrals]

Arrivals with Covid mainly coming from Russia, Kazakhstan

PHUKET: Most of the tourists found infected with Covid-19 upon arrival are coming from Russia or Kazakhstan, provincial governor Narong Woonciew said on Wednesday.

www.bangkokpost.com

That was 02nd Feb.
No such problem now hopefully not just Thailand and for a very long time.

 

[Centrals]

Russian flights keep arriving in Thailand, for now

Aeroflot, Ural Airlines and S7 Airline planes are still arriving on schedule in Thailand today as nothing has changed, thus far.

thethaiger.com

Money is not everything.

 

[Alaskan Scuba Dude]

I heard some tourists tested positive at the airport and were taken to hotel quarantine for 7 days before they could leave Thailand.

 

[Centrals]

I heard some tourists tested positive at the airport and were taken to hotel quarantine for 7 days before they could leave Thailand.

Nothing new.