Yay, it's diving day again. This time I am diving near Racha Yai and Racha Noi with All 4 Diving, previously known as the Sea World Dive Team, onboard their Similan Queen. The joke is that the boat never been to the Similan Islands. Dive 1 at Marina Bay, Racha Noi; Dive 2 at Camera Bay, Racha Noi. Apparently the dive site was named Camera Bay because someone lost his/her camera there, probably one of the pioneer divers there. Last dive was at Bay #1, Racha Yai, which was pretty different because there was 2 wrecks at the dive site. We were able to swim through one of the boat wrecks.
It was quite an eventful day. Just after the 1st dive, as I descended from the upper deck to the lower deck, I slipped and fell, leaving a bruise from the last step of the stairs on my back and a dent on my camera. Amazingly, after everything I put my camera through during this day, drops, smashes, rain, sand, mud, wind, dust etc, it still works almost perfectly. Just that after this incident, the battery couldn't eject smoothly anymore but the rest of camera functions still pretty much work as the day I bought it.
After the 2nd dive, we caught a glimpse of something flowing far away out in the sea. When we gotten closer, it was a body. It was pretty much rotten already. The skin turned whitish-grey. The head was gone. The hands and feet were gone. The forearms rotten til the bones. The chest area already cave in. Not a pretty sight. The guys was pretty dead for a few days already, with accelerated decomposition from the heat and sea water.
After the 3rd dive, I managed to start a conversation with this amazing Thai girl. I learnt that she is a dive instructor and brought her friends from high school to discover scuba diving. 1st Thai dive instructor I met, so far all the dive instructors and divemasters I met in Thailand are either Europeans or Japanese. She did an exchange at University of Hawaii so her english was pretty good. It was really a pity that I'm leaving Phuket in a few days time and couldn't get to know her.
In the evening, I went into Phuket Town to find a restaurant named Phuket Phochana recommended by Annkht for tim sum. However, I learnt that it only opens from 6am to 2pm. Bummer. So I went to the night market instead.
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