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Manta Queen 3 Trip No. 191 You begin to run out of adjectives when describing how amazing a trip to The Similan Islands is and voyage 191 aboard The Manta Queen 3 Liveabaord was no different. Setting off into the night we began with a thorough briefing from our Cruise Director, Joe, and after all the introductions and the blessing of the boat were done, we settled in for the night. The First...

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Manta Queen 7 on the road again with Marcus, Merce, Emma, Geri, Dan and Estelle – the dive team on board. Off again with Captain P’Noi and the crew to the Similan and Surin Island National Parks! On board with have a varied bunch of divers from all over the globe. Some are taking advantage of the training available onboard – completing PADI Open Water, PADI Advanced Open Water...

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Manta Queen 2, 3 days and 3 nights Koh Bon, Tachai Island and world famouse Richelieu Rock Koh Tachai was beautiful with sightings of zebra moreys, nudibranch, anenome crabs and giant barracudas. With limited water movement it was peaceful being underwater with the sunshine streaking through overhead and lighting all the colours the reef has to offer. Making the call with the seas being as f...

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Manta Queen 1 trip number 156 Because of the ongoing weather situation Mark and I decided to break the usual schedule and begin our trip straight away at Koh Bon Island. Check dive and west ridge done and off we where to Koh Tachai Island. The dome gave us once again a magic dive. Around one hour on and off with 2 Manta Rays. Amazing, this is why we go diving!!! Night dive at Koh Tachai reef ma...

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Manta Queen 1 set's sail to Similan Islands and Richelieu Rock During this trip we have a high percentage of customers taking the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course and the PADI Enriched Air Diver Course which are two courses perfectly suited to our liveaboard program. Taking both courses we had John, Jean, Demelza and Dennis and those who are already PADI Advanced taking the PADI Nit...

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 West of Eden and deep six complete the afternoons diving when we return to Island 4 for the night dive in the mysterious Hideaway bay. Day 2 sees us begin at Elephant head with a great drift dive from one end to the other, Three trees continued along the same theme with a record breaking drift dive ending almost at snapper ally. This is where we leave the Similans behind and head north to...

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  After a beautiful dinner cooked by are amazing cook Mew, we took off even further up north to the Surin Narional Marine Park and slept the night under the stars with the gentle? rocking of the seas.... Morning of day two and the famous Richelieu Rock did not dissappoint with the trio of Tiger tail seashorse out for the photograpghers a like and even with a Pygmy pipehorse out and abou...

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Manta Queen 1 Similan Island Liveaboard Trip Number 157 Weather predictions were more conducive for us to start our trip at Koh Bon Island at the Similan Marine National Park. A good start it was with an awesome good 1st dive with amazing visibility, followed by a most brilliant 2nd drift dive from the Koh Bon North Ridge to the West Ridge of Koh Bon Island. We then set off to Koh Tachai Isl...

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  With the wind almost blowing our dinners from the table we head back to Tachai for another amazing dive, we couldn’t get enough. Another dive on Koh Bon as well and then on to the Boonsung Wreck, which has become a favorite with quite a few of us! Congratulations to Christophe and Anuj for finishing your Advanced course and to Christophe (again), Sheena, Zhang and Yin for completin...

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  Lucky, lucky, lucky!!! Manta Queen 3 has returned from yet another four day diving adventure, and we were lucky, as always. Two really big Manta Rays, one at the world famous Koh Bon West Ridge, and one on the very next dive at Koh Tachai Pinnacle! The one at Koh Bon stuck around for about 15 minutes, making pass after pass very close to a few divers. Just lovely. ...

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Manta Queen 6 Liveaboard Trip Number 164, Similan Islands, Koh Bon Island, Koh Tachai, Richelieu Rock and Boon Sung Wreck, 15 amazing dives. We left the main land with perfect conditions to cross to the Similan Island National Park. Those conditions were not leaving us any time soon, we were able to ease into the trip with a lovely dive at Anita's reef, an old favorite of all the guides. We...

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Manta Queen 6 Trip 169 On the evening of the 01.01.2015 our Manta Queen 6 liveaboard made its way out of the busy harbor of Khao Lak close to Phuket Island into the big vast Andaman Sea towards the Similan Islands. Aboard is a big variety of guests, from all over the world including, China, France, Germany, Italy, Denmark and Austria. On the first day we started off with a beautiful dive a...

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Happy New Year! We rang in the new year with many Magical Manta Rays for Manta Queen 3! Oh yeah, we had a Whaleshark at Richelieu Rock too!!! This young season is already proving to be really great, with so many creatures visiting us at the different dive sites that we see along the way. This trip was especially nice, with Manta Rays on two dives in a row. We had a Manta at Koh Bon Island...

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Similan Island Liveaboard heading to the Surin and Similan Islands. Out of Khao Lak in with a blaze of fireworks, Manta Queen 7 is off again on a 5 day adventure to the world famouse Similan Island Marine Park. 22 guests from the 4 corners of the globe smiling as we leave! We begin in the southern Similan Islands with Anita’s Reef – our traditional starting point – befor...

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