Dive Blog
Snorkelling with Minke Whales!
Finally, after a few weeks of less than average visibility, in the Adang archipelago, things have changed! On Monday we had spectacular visibility, the conditions at Stonehenge were superb, and we saw all our favourites. 2 Tiger Tail Sea Horses intertwined, Albino Moray Eels and schools of Barracudas galore to name a few. Ah! Almost […]
Learning To Dive – Part 1
I’ve been saying I’m going to learn to dive for the last 3 years. Every time I visit Castaway my staff have asked me expectantly “Are you going to learn to dive this time?” And every time I’d say “I’m too busy, next time.” But Simon our dive shop manager is going to leave soon […]
Muck Diving on Koh Usen
Last week we were lucky enough to encounter 2 manta rays in 3 days! Unfortunately those 2 days were the only 2 that Joel, our divemaster didn’t dive, in a long time – he missed out on the mantas. To make up for it we decided that afternoon to go for a staff fun dive. […]
Snorkelling with a Manta Ray!
Yesterday we were lucky enough to have one of those moments that will stay with us forever! Upon surfacing from a dive at stonehenge, Nu, our captain, told us he’d seen a Manta ray around the dive site while we were diving. Of course we were excited, but Nu thought it had left already. As […]
Baby Blacktip Reef Shark on Koh Adang
Usually we have lunch on a beach somewhere in the marine park, and recently we’ve had some interesting company! One of our favourite spots, a quiet and usually empty beach on Koh Adang now also appears to be home to a young black tip reef shark. We’ve seen the shark, the last 4 times we’ve […]
Tawny Nurse Shark – Big Rocks
Another great days diving today! Congratulations to Arne and Mai, from Germany, who completed their PADI Open Water Diver Courses today! The fun divers (team Finland) also had some great dives. We found porcelain crabs on Koph Yang, as well as some frightfully large Titan triggerfish. We had a delicous lunch on the beach at […]
Underwater Proposal
Yesterday was another first for Castaway Divers. Mikael proposed to Mim underwater!! We had a great dive at Koh Talu and then he got down on bended knee and pulled the ring out of his BCD! Thankfully she remained calm, and accepted!! We´d like to once again congratulate the happy couple and thank the whole […]
Swimming with Dolphins!!!
Today we have been lucky enough to experience one of those chance encounters you never forget. On the way to our first dive, an Advanced Peak Performance Bouyancy training dive at Koh Talang we sited a pod of 12 dolphins. We all jumped in (of course!) and were able to snorkel with them for a […]
Fishing with Helmut
Today we started a new initiative to improve our knowledge of the local marine life. We´re all fairly confident we can identify the glamorous angel fish, cute little box fish, dancing juvenile sweetlips and all our other favourites. But when it comes to the less spectacular fish, sometimes we get stuck! We´re often asked what […]
Night Dive on Stonehenge
After such great diving on Stonehenge by day we decided to visit again for a night dive. As we hoped it was a great dive, we found a huge variety of marine life active at night; decorator crabs scurrying around, encrusted in coral and algae, anemone crabs carrying whole anemones on their shells! Tiny tiny […]
