Thailand

Beating Excess Baggage Charges For Scuba Gear In South East Asia

One of the downsides of travelling with your scuba equipment is being charged excess luggage fees by increasingly thrifty airlines, especially if you’re using budget carriers. Here’s some tips to flying with your scuba gear in South East Asia less expensive and less hassle (more…)

USS Lagarto - The Lost Submarine Is Found

The World War II submarine USS Lagarto had gone missing in action until it was found by two British deep sea divers in the Gulf of Thailand. Ayesha Cantrell dived the wreck with them and described this important act of remembrance for Diver magazine (more…)

Cuttlefish Mating At Palong Bay, Phi Phi Islands, Thailand

Witnessed some hot cephalopod action recently while on a liveaboard around Thailand’s Phi Phi islands - a group of three cuttlefish that were completely unphased by my camera (more…)

Manta Rays At Koh Lanta, Thailand

Manta Rays traditionally appear en masse at the beginning of the dive season in Koh Lanta, and this year is no exception. This week up to four mantas have been seen together around Koh Lanta’s dive sites (more…)

Diving On The USS Lagarto

In 2005 the final resting place of the American WWII submarine USS Lagarto was discovered in the Gulf of Thailand. This is an account by technical diving instructor Ayesha Cantrell of diving the Legarto on a subsequent research exploration dive (more…)

Book Review: Lonely Planet Diving And Snorkeling Thailand

Lonely Planet’s Thailand Diving And Snorkelling Guidebook is packed with amazing underwater images but quite thin on the info you need to get the most out of the country’s incredible scuba diving (more…)

Tech Diving In Thailand - The Ultimate Adventure

My good friend Ayesha Cantrell recently became a Technical Diving Instructor, one of the few women to take on the challenges of going below 60 metres and teaching others how to enter this amazing but hostile environment. Here she describes what attracted her to tech diving and why she did her tech courses in Thailand (more…)