Pattaya Dive HMAS Khram

Hey Fellas,
Yesterday we finally went for my birthday dive.
My mate Steve was bitten by a mad dog roughly 2 weeks ago so we had to stay calm
until the wound was completely healed up.
Steve's mate Owen joined us as well and we had a couple of great dives.
It was quite a pleasure to dive without students. Just 3 diving instructors on their own.
The first dive took us down to the HMAS Khram. I was a bit nervous but after the descent below 5m I started to relax and could enjoy the dive.
Owen brought his own camera and took some great photos down there.
Just have a look at them and you may spot the stone fish.
Bloody bastard. If you touch him you end up in hospital and get the attention of
the lovley nurse for the next 2 weeks for sure :)
We spent about 50 minutes around the wreck and descended to about 25m and multi-leveled up.

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The second dive was like some Discover Scuba Dive :)
Just between 2 and 6m below the surface and quite relaxed.
The whole bottom was covered from sea-urchins.
On our way back we got a little bit lost and Steve, Owen and myself tried to send one
of us up for orientation. But we knew it could be get dangerous while jetskies were in use in the same area.
So while we tried to figure out who goes up a jetski just shooted above our heads.
Fuck. That was lucky.
We decided to stay down and find the boat down there and we made it.
At the end of the day I was just surprise that no one died :)

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C ya in Germany soon.
Rob