tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82952494926829695442024-03-06T09:56:56.836+07:00Blue Planet Divers - ThailandThis blog is set to do 3 things; tell you how wonderful Koh Lanta and the diving is here, introduce you to the Blue Planet team and keep you up to date with the happenings on LantaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14824720575628700478noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8295249492682969544.post-24377909242919701702018-10-15T14:39:00.001+07:002018-10-15T14:39:34.814+07:00Great life on board!<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/68T0-5V20nI" width="459"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14824720575628700478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8295249492682969544.post-90577060062757888442018-08-29T12:28:00.000+07:002018-08-29T12:28:12.386+07:00Hey Travellers,<div>
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Feeling great at Blue Planet Divers.</div>
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We are all very excited about the new coming season. Great new features with new boat and a full refursbished wooden boat.</div>
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Diving is great at the moment and a lot of fun with guests. </div>
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Come and Join our next trip - <a href="http://www.blueplanetdivers.net/contact-us/">http://www.blueplanetdivers.net/contact-us/</a></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14824720575628700478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8295249492682969544.post-87703554133697308342016-07-24T14:25:00.000+07:002016-07-24T14:25:16.267+07:00Surprisingly low season! Hi travellers,<br />
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Low season has been an excellent time for a low pace diving. True is the weather is not always helping but running comfortable trips with 6 to 10 people are not often during High season. A few people on board for a maximum satisfaction.<br />
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We had just a couple of days diving and it was magical! We met all the species that divers want to see. Turtle, Sharks, Big school of fish, Macros life & all the common fishes were omnipresent every day to perfume the joy of our daily guest.<br />
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We're using a fast and comfortable catamaran which is just perfect for half day trip. You can enjoy a short time with us diving and the afternoon with your family or friends. Our low season guests are just very happy to this offer!<br />
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If you're thinking to travel around Krabi area just come a few days in Koh Lanta and enjoy a day trip with us. We're offering Diving & Snorkelling so you can bring your family and have fun together.<br />
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Sorry for not using our blog for the last few years but we are now ready to use it again.<br />
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What happened during this silent time has been amazing!!! We have develop a difference dive centre which offer a lot of different services with our new boats and daily trips concept.</div>
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We have still our entity "Chocksomboon 9" and its well know captain "Wee". This boat has given to Blue Planet the chance to be one of the most famous dive centre in Koh Lanta. This remarkable vessel gives us the diving beats! </div>
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We have now as well a fast and very comfortable powered catamaran which has been an essential key in our daily farther trips. We can offer now specials 3 dives to remote sites in a short time. This wonderful machine is the most efficient and strongest boat on the island. Daily Guests and staff are loving it!</div>
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So popular is this trip, we will soon try the same, but with King Cruiser, shark point and a great Bida dive to finish. But if you want to join, you better book in advance, as the boat fills up fast. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14824720575628700478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8295249492682969544.post-65876354795313433692012-11-10T12:07:00.000+07:002012-11-10T12:07:08.711+07:00New dive trip this season!!!!We have been keeping you informed about the progress to our shop and of our dive boats, but that is not all that is new to Blue Planet. The team have been having a lot of fun discussing what else we can do to make Blue planet the best dive shop on Koh Lanta, and how we can improve our already high standard of service to our customers. Well, the ideas have been literally flying around!<br />
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Blue Planet is proud to announce for the first time in its history, new to this season the inclusion of night dives into our diving schedule.<br />
We will be using our speedboat to offer a two dive trip, leaving in the afternoon. You will be whisked away on the fastest diving speedboat on Koh Lanta, to your first dive site. Due to the time there will be little to no other divers there. Once this dive is completed you will then be taken to our second dive site, where as the sun descends below the horizon you too will be descending below the surface. Upon completion of this dive you will whisked back to Saladan, still with plenty of time to enjoy a meal either at your resort or at one of the many wonderful restaurants that can be found close to the Blue Planet Shop.<br />
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Those of you that have dived with us on Hin Bida will know the magic of seeing leopard sharks gracefully swimming by. Unlike Black Tip sharks which spook easily, leopard sharks when treated with respect, will allow divers to come very close to them. So now imagine if you will:-<br />
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We hope and are looking forward to having many such encounters in the upcoming months.<br />
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But, maybe you prefer the piece and tranquility of Koh Haa?<br />
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Those of you who have dived with us before most likely have seen the beauty of the five islands, and especially the lagoon, now imagine what it is like as the light slowly fades towards the end of your first dive and then when all is dark and the reefs comes alive, you slowly descend and view the wonder of the night in the light of one of our high powered torches supplied to you for your dive.<br />
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When your on your next visit to Koh Lanta and Blue Planet Divers, don't forget to purchase one before you leave!<br />
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"But if we are updating the materials, why do we not update the overall teaching of the course?"<br />
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"We go, slate free!"<br />
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Thats right. Blue Planet Divers are saying goodbye to the Recreational Dive Planner (RDP) and saying hello to learning Open Water with dive computers.<br />
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One of the things that you notice is that most people use the RDP in their open water course and probably never use it again. It is quite obvious to us that fun divers are more likely to bring a dive computer on to the boat than bring their slate. So why not teach it instead? <br />
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With several computers ready for use and the new course materials in stock we look forward to offering and teaching this exciting course to all our upcoming students.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14824720575628700478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8295249492682969544.post-43044074448783174532012-10-06T00:32:00.000+07:002012-10-07T18:00:55.173+07:00So much news, we dont know where to begin!With our boat only recently back, we have been overwehlmed by the sheer volume of guests joining us at Blue Planet. Not only has our big boat been full for five days in a row, but on the 3rd October we took our speedboat on our first trip to Hin Daeng/Hin Muang. A great day was had by all the guests that joined Blue Planet. Great visability, abundant marine life, and even dolphins seen during the journey.<br />
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A great day and hard to top ............. until the following day!<br />
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We took our big boat to Koh Bida where our gruests enjoyed seeing a wide range of marine life including Leaopard Sharks, Turtles, Octopus, snake eels, and sea snakes.<br />
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BP's very own DMT Janine chose the perfect day to learn Fish Identification and complete her advanced open water course.<br />
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But what could top the dolphins seen the day before?<br />
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How about a Minke whale while travelling to our second dive site Hin Bida?<br />
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This beautiful and majestic creature came to surface several times close to the boat and made everyone extremely happy with shouts of "Over there!" ringing thoughout.<br />
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Although it only surfaced for a few seconds each time, Kevin was lucky enough to capture these two photos.<br />
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Our Divemaster trainee Janine has completed her advanced open water and EFR courses and has now joined Stephanie in beginning their rescue diver courses.<br />
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DMT Timothee arrived on the island a few days ago and is looking forward to starting his divemaster training with Janine and Stephanie.<br />
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We are proud to introduce and add Patricia as our fourth divemaster trainee who will be joining us at the end of the month.<br />
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Blue Planet is updating the vast majority of its teaching materials to improve its courses for our future students including a special surprise which will be revealed here very shortly.<br />
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Our brand new signs have arrived for the front of our shop, and tomorrow will be lifted into place.<br />
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The furniture for our guests to relax on (inside and out) is coming in a day or two and with only the classrooms to undergo finally preparations we are proud to announce Blue planets official opening and opening party is to be held on the 15th October!<br />
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That is not all, but it is enough for this blog post. More to follow shortly.<br />
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You will have seen the pictures of the progress to our very own cave entrance to Blue Planet Divers, well now we are proud to show you the first photos of the finished article. With just a few tweeks to the waterfall and our newly acquired manikins to dress, the highlight to the all new BP shop is complete. We here in Blue Planet our overjoyed at what has been created but have discovered that if it looks great in the day time, it looks absolutely FANTASTIC come sundown.<br />
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So now the finally push. the builders have finished. The painters have finished. The electricians have finished. So now we are pushing on, putting up stock displays, awaiting the new banners and furniture, adding last minute finishing touches and preparing vital boat materials ready for the return of our big boat in a few days.<br />
High Season is almost upon us!!!!!!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14824720575628700478noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8295249492682969544.post-78203081473348437312012-08-28T14:34:00.000+07:002012-08-28T14:34:28.590+07:00Introducing our confirmed Divemaster Trainees (DMTs) for the upcoming season.Well with the shop almost finished and the all new entrance to shop decorated,<br />
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our boat is due back shortly, and with the seasons beginning just over a month away, we eagerly await the return of our high season staff back to Blue Planet.<br />
The staff though, are not the only members of the Blue Planet team. Every season with have many guests join us on our Go Pro program to become professional divemasters.<br />
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Divemaster trainees spend approximately three months working with us. Even though they are spending their time learning the role of a divemaster, they are treated non the less, as members of the Blue Planet team. While being tutored in the role of a divemaster and learning all aspects of the safe leadership in caring for groups of divers in the water, they are also taught how a dive shop works. For this, there is no better experience than to be hands on, and so for the length of their stay, they become members of the Blue Planet team. They are invaluable, and offer tremendous help in the running of a busy and successful dive business, and are a welcome helping hand in assisting instructors and divemasters conducting courses or guiding dives. <br />
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This year so far we have five people confirmed to join us.<br />
For the first part of the season we have three DMT's confirmed. They will be arriving in the near future and we look forward to welcoming,<br />
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and Janine Wheatley (photo to follow).<br />
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For January we have two confirmations,.<br />
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Aurore Kawalka<br />
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And Simon Buckell (photo to follow).<br />
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We have one more place available for a half internship position beginning in January, so if you would like to join Aurore and Simon, contact us here at blue planet at <a href="mailto:blueplanetdivers@gmail.com">blueplanetdivers@gmail.com</a><br />
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Here at Blue Planet, we wish to convey our apologies to all our past, present and future guests, staff and followers for the lack of updates recently. <br />
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We have been cracking on, preparing the shop and boats, sorting out clerical matters, meeting with business partners, dealing with suppliers and everything else that goes on behind the scenes in low season.<br />
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On the matter of low season, a quick note. Many tourist operators away from Koh lanta like to tell people that our beautiful island is virtually closed in low season.<br />
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Well, boats have been going out, the weather has been fantastic, more tourists seem to be coming to the island than in previous years and the island is most DEFINITELY open. Maybe soon we will get the long anticipated label enjoyed by islands such as Koh Phi Phi that we are, <u>open all season</u>!<br />
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So whats been happening at the shop?<br />
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Well the speedboat is back, up and running and looking sexier than before.<br />
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The big boat is down at Kantang at the shipyard, for servicing and renovations and will be back within the next two weeks. We are hoping to have the shop finished by this time and ready to fully open so the race is on to complete it.<br />
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In our Saladan shop, the floor is laid, the cave feature and waterfall completed,<br />
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The IDC classroom is painted and ready to be used.<br />
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Now comes the big task of clearing three months of dust from the previous construction work. We have two classrooms to paint, and we have a local Thai artist coming in to do some wonderful underwater designs in the entrance area to the shop. Aircon has been fitted in to the main area and soon we will be able to relocate our office area from the IDC classroom to our brand new office counter to welcome you all to Blue Panet Divers. New look signs have been designed and will soon be sent to be printed and we have been having a lot of fun revamping our T Shirt Designs not only for the guests and staff on the boats, but also smart Blue Planet staff polo shirts for those of us when we are working in the shop. Exciting times!<br />
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The gear has been removed from the shop and cleaned once more and shall soon be relocated to our gear room which is also being renovated, as after purchasing more rental gear for our valued customers we did not have enough room for storage. An extension has been carried out, and now we have only to make the racks for it to the gear to be stored tidily and safely away.<br />
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So, as you can see the end is in sight. Our DMT spaces are filling. The high season staff are sorting travel plans to return the island, and are all very excited about the upcoming season. Course plans are being discussed, ideas taking shape, and our anticipation for a fantastic high season is overwhelming. <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14824720575628700478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8295249492682969544.post-77479245556050852032012-07-11T17:05:00.002+07:002012-07-11T17:07:30.833+07:00Full internships for Oct - Dec 2012Just a short note to let people know that our two full internship places for Oct - Dec 2012 in the upcoming season, have now been filled, but we still have two places available for January onwards 2013. So please contact the Blue Planet Team if your are interested. We do still offer half internships for most of the season, so again if interested drop us an email at <a href="mailto:blueplanetdivers@gmail.com">blueplanetdivers@gmail.com</a><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14824720575628700478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8295249492682969544.post-5666410413383407932012-06-30T17:16:00.000+07:002012-06-30T17:17:12.389+07:00The shop takes shapeSo we have been having a lovely low season here in Lanta so far. Although a storm past through a few weeks ago, once it past we were soon able to get the boat out and have so far enjoyed up to 30m viability and some of the best conditions we have seen in the last few months. Low season is certainly a wonderful time to be here with warm water, quiet dive sites, and fantastic diving.<br />
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What was the original office now been bricked up and we will begin painting very soon and making this our largest classroom..<br />
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When you think of Koh Haa, what do you think of first? It will probably be the lagoon, but the second thing may well be the caves on Koh Haa Yai, We thought it would be fun to experience the caves upon entering the newly designed shop, so guys we wish to welcome you to Blue Planets version of the Koh Haa Yai caves. Enjoy!</div>
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After a short lull in work while we eagerly awaited materials, the renovations have begun.<br />
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Our first job was to bring light to the future sales floor, so we removed the four sets of old blue shutters from the main room (and back room),<br />
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Geddis's chef is cooking up something other than food, to welcome past, present and future guests to the new look Blue Planet Divers but except for the small hint to the right, that's all we are saying about that for now!<br />
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So at the end of the day we relax come "beer o'clock" and discuss the plans and jobs to do to make this an exciting new Blue Planet Divers for all our past, present and future guests to enjoy. So stay tuned for future developments from all the BP team, until next time ............Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14824720575628700478noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8295249492682969544.post-74043684637892798802012-05-22T20:42:00.001+07:002012-05-22T20:47:20.605+07:00A new and exciting look to Blue PlanetWell everybody.<br />
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This low season Blue Planet is receiving a facelift. With a brand new
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As you can see classroom two and sadly, our Blue Planet bar have already been removed, All in just one day thanks to Geddis, Ben, Kev and most importantly to the hardest working member of the team, Geddis's father-in-law (who put the rest of us to shame).<br />
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Now we have a fantastic large area where we can begin to make a new shop and seating area for customers and guests to enjoy, peruse diving equipment, and talk to staff at the end.of a great days diving. We have big plans for the front of this shop, which for now will remain a secret, but we will be posting pictures as it develops. So stay tuned.<br />
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Our original shop will replace classroom two and will become our largest classroom, with it being fully air conditioned, it is sure to be a great setting for all future PADI Instructor Development Course students to relax while working hard to become the future instructors of PADI courses.<br />
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Choksomboom 9 we will keep under wraps as ideas are literally flying around at this time but we are all excited at the prospect of a new design to the interior both inside and out, but first we will concentrate on our base of operations in Saladan.<br />
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What makes it difficult, much to our joy, is that low season appears to have come late in 2012. With the Blue Planet boat still busy in May, we have given our fantastic Captain Wee a much deserved break for a week. He will return however to jump behind the wheel and roll out Choksomboom 9 back on the Andaman sea for all our guests to enjoy what is turning out to be a stunning low season. But don't worry, with the short absence of Captain Wee our speedboat has taken up the slack and is powering on, delivering guests to Koh Haa and Koh Bida for what are turning out to be some of the most spectacular dives of 2012!<br />
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On Friday we were very pleased to have the Charity, "<a href="ttp://www.childrenoftheforest.com/">Children of the Forest</a>," on our boat for a snorkeling trip to Koh Haa.
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These children are Burmese but have ended up in Thailand for various reasons without their parents. As Burmese they have no rights to healthcare and schooling and face real hardship. This charity provides "step-parents" within their homes and has a free school for the kids.
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When the children arrived at our boat on Friday, we were struck by their politeness, lovely natures and smiling faces. Lanta Diver had generously provided Losgodis (Swedish sweets) for all the kids and we had provided some t-shirts for them to remember the day.
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Unfortunately the weather was not great in the morning and despite our best efforts there were a few seasick children on the way to Koh Haa Lagoon, but they all cheered up once we reached Koh Haa. The Toys given by Hidden Depths, Pier Restaurant, Christina and Niall (BP guests)were all thoroughly enjoyed by the children, and adults alike! We were very grateful for our wonderful divemasters from Go Dive, Blue Planet Divers, Anti-Gravity Divers and Lanta Diver who made sure that the kids had fun but were safe!
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The journey back was a lot easier, so the kids had a chance to tuck into some fabulous food, Doughnuts from Baan Cafe, Fried Rice from Corner Bar, Fried Chicken from Somchai and Ice Cream from our very own Gin and her friends who are staff at Layanna resort.<br />
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Big thanks to everyone involved and to Debs for all the wonderful photos. </div>
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"Dear Mellisa
Milly and I would like to express our most heartfelt thanks for the wonderful diving experience you and your staff provided during the time we were in your most capable hands.
For myself, diving with Dingo, Ben and Sal was an excellent experience where their true professionalism shone through. For Milly, Jim was the ideal match. He achieved wonders where others would have failed. In addition, all the other members of your team are impressive performers.
In sum, it is quite clear to us both that you have built Blue Planet to an enviable standard Congratulation!
We wish you success and happiness in your future ventures.
Fondest regards
Philip"
We would like to return the complement Phil, you and your beautiful wife, were an absolute pleasure to have on our boat.
Well done team xxxAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14824720575628700478noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8295249492682969544.post-36527958675892400672012-04-13T06:30:00.002+07:002012-04-13T06:30:37.848+07:00Our Freediving Competition makes Apnea Magazine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thanks to <a href="http://www.fisheye-photo.net/">Christophe Rouziou</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14824720575628700478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8295249492682969544.post-34339650168999239522012-04-12T19:33:00.001+07:002012-04-12T19:33:03.958+07:00We think this shark makes a Good Point!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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