Mantas, Turtles and diving santa's....Wicked Diving Christmas Liveaboard!

Christmas Diving

Christmas is always a special time whether you spend it back home with friends and family or on a Liveaboard on the beautiful Similan Islands. Our special 4 day Xmas trip on Angel Parinee was not an exception.

Santa and his weird friend showed up and gave Pavel Jr a good laugh.
Our awesome cook “ “ prepared a lovely Xmas dinner in the evening much appreciated by everyone.


Day 2 started off with the dive site “Mysterious Point”. The guests got 3 different briefings and had to guess the dive site after coming up from the dive, then we draw a winner and the lucky person was Monika who won a Wicked t-shirt.

The dive site was North Point and it was a beautiful dive where everyone got to see Hawksbill Turtles feeding algees on the coral.


Other diving highlights of the trip was as usual Richelieu Rock where we found Tigertail seahorses, Big school of Barracudas and an unexpected visit of 4 meter wide Manta.


Other special sightings was a Ribbon Eel, Blacktip Reef Sharks, Leopard Shark, biggest Banded Seasnake ever and a big school of Dolphins on the way back to Koh Bon. Also of course people diving with Santa hats.


There were a lot of games going on on the boat. The usual Werewolf of course were Monika were werewolf twice with her defense speech “I don’t really understand this game…”. We had a failed attempt of snowmen competition on the Surin beach, JP was the winner and only competitor while Christine misunderstood the game and made a “snow” turtle instead, Pavel Jr were entertaining everyone with his Jojo.

Pavel Sr took out his toothbrush and finished everyone off real quick in the toothbrush game. Len, Sze Lyn, Ishan and Hamza did the second briefing on Koh Bon. Ishan won the prize for most professional while Len got the entertaining award.
The trip ended after a beautiful dive on the local wreck Boonsung and everyone was satisfied and no one really missed Xmas at home.

Happy Holidays and enjoy your new year!


-Similan Diving

Happy New Year To all...and a special one from a Wicked Diving guest...

One of our recent guests sent us this note....


Belated merry Christmas! My friend (Sze Lynn) and I have now left Thailand and wanted to express our thoughts about our 4 day Christmas trip on the Parinee. Where do we begin?!? Everything was fabulous. All our instructors, namely Suzanne, Karin, Kristian, and Ricky were all incredibly professional but at the same time friendly, generous and warm. Food, accommodation, the Thai crew, conditions, etc were great and far exceeded expectations.

Very special mention to our actual dive instructor and dive leader JP. He was everything we could ask for and much more. He really went out of his way to ensure Sze Lynn and I really enjoyed the dives but also to improve our technique and increase our confidence. Upon reflection, we consider ourselves extremely fortunate to be teamed with him (though he probably doesn't think so as we were pretty difficult divers initially!! But he never ever showed his frustration). JP really enhanced our trip and his wonderful attitude will not be forgotten.

Sze Lynn and I are now super keen divers and we are already talking about our next trip. If only wicked diving was located else where as we would surely love to go with your team again! (hint hint, wicked should expand!)

We will proudly recommend wicked diving to anyone who wants to hear it! (and we will proudly wear our new t shirts we purchased from the store yesterday to help advertise your group!)

Many thanks again to you for all you patient, helpful and detailed email correspondence. Your quick responses were very much appreciated.

Happy new year!

Cheers,
Christine and Sze Lynn


Warms our hearts and makes us work even harder!

-Similan Diving