Photography Speciality!!!

Results from the latest photography course were really good, so we thought we'd post them up!!

Here's some of the shots taken on the course.........

Instructor Alex pretending he knows what he's on about!!

Some landscape shots of Green Rock

Marine life portraits - skunk anemonefish.

And the guys who took the shots! - Kier, and Erin - Cheers for a great course guys!!

Full Day Tripper

Finally! Someone brought back some photos from a full day trip!

These happen at least once a week - basically we comandeer one of the Big Blue boats - usually the biggest, pack a load of food and drink, and sail around the dive sites of Koh Tao for the whole day! They're always a good laugh, and because the boat's free to go where-ever we want, the divings great aswell!!

Captain Peak setting out on the latest voyage (ArrrgHaaarr!)

Briefings for the first dive of the morning are always tough on instructor Bex. (Heh he!)

Arrival at Sail Rock - the best dive site in The Gulf of Thailand according to the Lonely Planet.

Post dive breakfast - yum!

Canada doing the washing up from breakfast - HA!

Get back to work!! - Ernst and Canada skiving!

Chillin between dives

Scobby briefing his advanced course on the next dive.


Everyone on the trip heading back to the resort.



Afternoon beers on the way back

Apres Dive party, and a great day - As always - big thanks to our divemastersRicky, Sonia and Ernst for putting the trip together!!

Rickster's Birthday!

Well, what I can I say? It was Ricks Birthday, and because he always throws such great parties for us, we decided to cover the bar in white, throw up a load of U.V. lights and drink way too much with him!! - Great Night!

Loads of U.V. action at the beach bar

Some very dodgy looking characters!

G, Darren and the Birthday Boy recking the bar

Great time had by all - special thanks to Canada, Yvonne, Hannah, G and Darren for sorting the party out - nice one!

Oh! And of course...... Happy Birthday Rick!!!!

Some Diving Antics

Thought I'd throw a few shots up of different dives - (seeing as thats what we do most of the time!!)

Becky and Anna's Divemaster Challenge

Its been a while since there was a party posted - so here's shots from Becky and Anna's last night as divemaster trainees!!!!

To celebrate their passing off we put a KohTao-opoly drinking game together with a dress code that had to be anything with the initials D.M. (drunken Mistake was a popular choice!)

Pics to follow:

(Oh Yeah - sorry, but have'nt actually got any photos of Becks or Anna yet!!!)

Sonia the Diving Midget!!

Part of the KohTao opoly board!!

Darren - Doctor Martin!!

Party shot




G lookin pleased about somethin!!??



Great night had by all - cheers to Rick for throwing the night together!!

World Ocean Day Mega Cleanup!!

What a day!!!


Big Blue dived into World Ocean Day feet first with a massive organised beach cleanup, and a couple of cleanup dives with staff, divemaster trainees and instructors. And it was amazing how much s%*t@ we found!!! Check out the photos!!!


Instructor Darren whipped us all into shape, and organised the event so big up thanks to Del boy Dazza! And also Simple Life for the ace party afterwards!!


pics to follow.....



Dazza putting the show together




Briefing the beach clean up - "Don't pick up anything that bites!" :)


Steffie mucking about!

Hard, hot, sweaty, dirty se - oh! - I mean work!!!



Building the rubbish mountain


Canada briefing the beach clean up





Canada floating in the water


Canada actually doing something!!! - Lifting the underwater junk with lift bag




Sending the junk up!






We had 2 kayaks cruising around collecting the rubbish sent up by scuba and free divers (clearly the worst job of the day!)


Unloading the rubbish collected from the boats





The resultant mound of rubbish cleared!! - Notic the toilet we found at 5m sitting on top - clearly the best find of the day!