Saturday, March 03, 2007

Phuket Dive Report #1


Took my first dive yesterday - from the beach here at the Le Meridien Hotel.

Killed myself swimming out a very long way. I am VERY out of shape.

Did a 30-40 minute dive in 10 meters. There was a reef right off the beach. Visibility SUCKED - some of the worse I remember ever having. The full moon means that the tides are particularly strong. I saw a couple of small silver rays a couple feet across with tails 6 or so feet long. There were also some pretty fish of all variety, and some really cool looking large, round corral.

All in all, not a great dive, but a good prep for today's dives. We are supposed to be doing a good deep dive this morning, so I am glad for the practice.