Bowmouth
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One of my best friends is the son of a dutch man and he is anything but an ignorant c**t
See?!
You DO have a temper!
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One of my best friends is the son of a dutch man and he is anything but an ignorant c**t
no one forces you to read / comment on my post
Too late Bowmouth...now your going to have to go out and kill an animal or something or were going to have to take away your Skull and Crossbones
I fail to see How people can say the diving in Pattaya gives chalenging conditions.
Yes, there is sometimes currents. but no stronger than many places I have dived in the world, and certainly a lot less strong than we get in many places around the Uk.
yes the visibility is usually crap.
But most coral dives are only at a depth of 3-12 m, with the exception of a couple of sites.
The deepest dive of any worth is the HTMS kood max approx 32 m to sea bed at high tide.
And in the winter the water gets as cold as about 26c.
Why not try some Uk diving if you want challenging conditions. Pinpoint the wrecks yourself, put your own shot line on to the wreck, in rough seas. first having determined when the usually short (about 45 min) window of slack water is, then carry out the dive in cold water and sometimes extremely low viz and dark conditions.
I trust all the qualified pattaya interns are capable of doing this if they ever decide to work in the UK dive industry.
LK,
Have you ever done a dive on the Petchaburi Bremen? If not, I am sure you could brush up on pinpointing wrecks (without a GPS), putting on a shot line, anticipating slack (or as near as it gets) and hauling yourself down the line without purging all your gas.
It is a fairly challenging quite advanced dive site.
What a train wreck...LOL
Don't know if the OP is still reading this at all...but I have trained in both Pattaya (Rescue, and Tech) and Kata beach near Phuket (IDC).
Honestly, the diving at the beach in both places was roughly the same in my opinion. In both locations, we had to take a two hour boat ride to get to "good diving". However, most training is not about the good diving...it's more about skills, esp at the instructor level where most of your time will be spent in the pool.
As for Pattaya, I enjoyed it, lots to do, beach is alive and Aquanauts is a first rate outfit. Good balance of serious training and fun.