As promised, here are some photos from Buoyancy World.

This is the deployment of 1 of the concrete barrels to hold the “Bamboo” in place.

Divers building a structure.

The Bamboo Forest, before being moved.

More to come…..!

SD

A lazy day today. Funnily enough, we’re both feeling a bit achey after all that heavy lifting yesterday.

We decided that we are going to take a chance and live at another place at the bottom of the road starting next month. Mainly as Simon needs a good solid internet connection for work purposes, and at the moment he is going from cafe to cafe to try and get urgent jobs done back in the UK.

Its boiling today, and we both really fancied a swim, so snuck into “Banns” (one of the largest dive schools on the island)  and made good use of their pool to cool off…. I think we must be the whitest people on the island 🙂

After an hour or so we then headed into Mae Haad to “Deep Down Productions” (underwater videographers) so that Si could chat about the possibility of him teaming up and starting the documentary side of things.

It sounds pretty promising and they are a good bunch of gus who benefit from Simons expertise 😉

JD

Woke around 9am and packed all our dive kit together in preparation for todays dives  YAY!!!!

What I forgot to mention is that we’re not actually fun diving (for those of you who don’t know, a fun dive is actually just a leisurely dive following a guide around a dive sight) we’re actually helping with ‘Buoyancy World’  basically several of the dive schools have made different giant concrete structures, Star fish, Butterflies, Giant Clams, Octopus, Bamboo forest to name but a few.

On the day we arrived, a bunch of Eco divers were dumping the structures in the water at ‘Twins’ dive site and today we were moving them into place using brute force along with lifting bags over 50 meters or so.

Buoyancy World has been designed for training students to improve there abilities in the sea without causing damage to the natural enviroment.  We’ll upload pictures soon.

It was good to get in the water again even though we’ve had a very tiring day.  I think we’ll have a couple of fun dives tomorrow and just chill 🙂

We’re now sat in Crystal bar having a nice cold beer!  …or two!