Hi everyone and welcome back to my weekly photography blog. This week with Sairee Cottage Diving I have been playing around with wide angle shots. I shot this on the Fujifilm finepix f30 with the wide angle wet lens. The benefit of using a wet lens over the usual types of lens is that you can change it while diving.
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IDC, Koh Tao, Thailand – Day 3 of the IDC at Sairee Cottage on Koh Tao is scheduled to be one of the longest days of training for our Candidates, it however is also one of the most informative. On this day our candidates take their first and biggest steps into the world of PADI Scuba Instruction. We started off
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Koh Tao, Thailand – It’s the second day of the IDC at Sairee Cottage Diving here on the sunny island of Koh Tao in the Gulf of Thailand, and we kicked off the morning with a skills circuit. Not only is this a great way to refresh the skills learned on the Divemaster course; our IDC candidates are encouraged to
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This weeks underwater photo, I have chosen this picture of an Anemone fish. This was taken at Twins on my first dive playing about with a strobe. It was a bit of a learning curve and I am still getting used to using it but I really like the way the colours have come out in this one. Anemones are a
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Divemaster Graduation On St Patrick’s day, we finished and welcomed 7 new Divemaster candidates into the fantastic world of professional scuba diving. We all gathered by the pool bar for a BBQ and a few craft beers before we conducted their snorkel test. It was hilarious and a fantastic way to spend our afternoon off from diving. Congratulations to our
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Hi everyone and welcome back to my blog. This week I have chosen this picture of a titan trigger fish. They have been particularly territorial the last few weeks as they have been in the breeding season and have been building there nest cones. Most divers will keep there distance from these guys all year round but more so now.
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Hi everyone After a short break in the U.K. I am back to the warm waters of koh tao and here is the return of my underwater photo blog. It was amazing to be back in the water especially as the visibility has drastically improved since the last time I was diving. With so many schools of fish and big
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Last Friday we were fortunate to have some free time, and at Sairee Cottage Diving Koh Tao this means clean up dive time! During our regular fun dives, we sometimes come across a polluted area so when we have an opportunity to go clean it up, we take it.
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During the IDC on Koh Tao at Sairee Cottage Diving we teach a lot about Marine Conservation and Project AWARE. One of our last candidates wanted to share her experience during the ECO Lecture and this is her story: During my IDC (Instructor Development Course) at Sairee Cottage Diving on Koh Tao I had the luck to be present on
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Among diving with a Koh Tao turtle, this has been another action packed couple of weeks at Sairee Cottage Diving. Firstly, a big congratulations to our Scuba Diving Instructor candidates who passed their PADI Instructor examination on the 18th of February. They will now continue on with their diving careers, and we wish them the best for the future. True
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