Similan Islands Beach and Diving (2019): Dolphin Queen Liveaboard [Part 2]
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- My first scuba diving liveaboard 🚢 on the Dolphin Queen 🐬 (by Similan Diving Safaris) in Thailand. 🇹🇭 We dive Thailand's best dive site, Richelieu Rock, the Surin and Similan Islands, which had some really nice clear water and cool landscapes. We also got to go on on of the most beautiful islands (#4), which had soft white sand, clear waters and and was not crowded.
Featuring moray eels, sea snakes, schools of yellow snappers, barracuda, triggerfish, and more! 🐠
The Dolphin Queen liveaboard was 4 days / 4 nights and we did 14 dives in total! 🛥️
Part 2 covers Days 3 and 4 and 6 dives, plus a visit to Miang Island (#4 in the Similan Islands), with crystal clear waters and beautiful white sandy beaches, plus my very first night dive. At the end I give a review of the trip and the Dolphin Queen.
Travelled in April 2019, just after the Songkran Festival.
Dive sites in Part 2:-
1) Elephant Head Rock 🐘
2) West of Eden
3) North Point
4) Koh Bon (my first night dive)
5) Koh Bon
6) Boonsung Wreck 🛳️
For more info on the Dolphin Queen and diving in the Similans:
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❓QOTD: Fellow scuba divers: Where is your favourite place in the world to dive? 🌟💬
Manta Dive in Kona Big Island!
@@ChrisandBrenda Oooh, need to check that out. My first ever dives (after my Open Water) was all about manta manta manta... Haven't encountered them again since, so definitely keen!
Good question! We just did our OWD in Ko Tao and it was amazing.
Now when I open mySSI app and check diving sites around the world...I'm so excited to try others! and different kind of dives! night, wrecks, freediving...
I’m not big on diving but I do enjoy snorkeling. I went to the Great Barrier Reef which was an excellent place to dive and snorkel.
Nice. That was one of the first places I dived, but tbh, I really don't think it's the best anymore. Definitely recommend even closer to tropics for better corals and fish :)
Such a cool video, I wish I could get into diving its so beautiful but unfortunately I am terrified of sharks!
Oh noooo... sharks are cool. Also, if you are terrified of sharks then you SHOULD go diving. Even aggressive sharks pretty much never think of attacking us weird looking divers with big metal tanks strapped to our backs. We're always the ones looking out for sharks and they run away 😉 Swimming / snorkeling much more dangerous on that front.
We've just got our PADI open water license, and we can't wait to go diving again!!! Its so beautiful underwater 😍 I need a beach holiday so badly!! Haha manual washing machine 😆 love your personality, looking forward to more of your adventures!!
Congratulations on your Open Water! 🙌 I hope you have some amazing underwater adventures, and thanks for watching. Btw, once you've had some experience (ideally having done your Advanced OW) you should really look into diving Sipadan off the coast of Sabah. It's an incredible place to dive!
Omg so many amazing fish! I love the stripey dudes at 1:15! The beach at 3:44 is amazing. Omg I wish I was there! Ooooh, I love diving wrecks. There's something so eerie about them that creeps me right out. I've only snorkelled around wrecks so far but would love to dive!
I was so impressed with how abundant the fishes were! This wreck was quite wrecked 😜 I've been in others where you can go through them - those are very eerie especially if you get one which isn't crowded. Hope you get to try diving soon, I think you'll like it!
what a beautiful diving spot, love the corals here, and colorful fishes everywhere! nice shot of that eel creeping out lol, Night Diving is super fun, we've done it once in Big Island and we loved it!
I think I'm now hooked onto night diving! My video lights have UV as well, which is quite cool to see underwater 😀
It's time for diving! Great video, just need to wait for my vacation :) It's a good chance to know nature with your hand :)
Thanks! Do you dive a lot?
never seen anyone diving with their sun glasses on though!
@@CuriousEntrepreneur I'm special haha
Wow - the visibility was pretty good there! I'd love to do a night dive one day, but it looks terrifying! Thanks for sharing buddy!
James B Visibility was pretty incredible. And do try that night dive! I also thought it would be terrifying but honestly it was like the calmest dive ever (for real). The fish behave quite differently at night, some even seek out your flashlight 🔦
Great experience!
We never heard of Siliman Islands before! Guess we'll have to check them on our next trip to Thailand!
Thanks for sharing!!
As always, great image quality and good editing!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thanks you so much! It's one of the more popular places to dive, but I went towards the end of the season so wasn't crowded, thankfully! Do you guys go to Thailand much?
After having watched the first of this series- so pleased and privileged to watch more. Lovely shots. I'll never dive but seeing that mysterious world under water does make me realise what a fantastic activity this is.
Thank you so much. I'm thrilled that you enjoyed it, as although it was fun to do, it was also a lot of effort to put together. I hope you have plenty of equally fantastic adventures 😃
Your underwater shots are great! There actually seems to be some living coral too (not overly common in Thailand these days). Milay island looks really nice, the water is beautiful and it didn't seem too crowded either! The wreck dive looked very cool!
I was very pleasantly surprised. The living coral problem I think is worldwide 😢 so it's really nice when you see a good bunch of living coral and clear water. I think we were really lucky with Miang Island (maybe because it was the end of season). Thanks for watching!
I wish I was on a beach that beautiful right now! Looks so amazing! You've really got me interested in diving now, I wanna go after watching 2 videos on it!!
Thanks! Definitely best to go to these places off season (I'm usually not even so keen on going to fairly well established places normally as you might tell from the rest of my vlogs). Diving is certainly a whole new world, and considering that so much of the Earth's surface is underwater. Do you like snorkelling?
There are some really big trigger fish on that first dive. Lol at the Baywatch scene. Too bad you did not get any footage of the shark. One of my favorite places to dive is Jupiter, Florida
Yeah! Loved the trigger fish and how intricate they are. Yeah, sadly with the sharks and the rays they were a little too far away (and I had my wide angle on so they would have looked tiny). What are the main highlights of diving in Jupiter?
Just amazed by this place! Enjoyed watching you!!! the underwater is really good! what camera do you use?
Thanks!! I'm using a Panasonic LX10 compact camera in a diving case! Do you dive too?
That beach you went to is so beautiful! The water is amazing. It looks like a really nice trip that was well organized. How many dives did you do in total?
We did 14 dives = 4 + 4 + 4 + 2! That was a lot of diving. Up until that trip I had never done more than 3 dives per day. And yeah, really well organised trip and partly because it was the tail end of the season the dive sites were not crowded. I've seen some videos of people doing day trips to the islands and they looked much much busier! Do you dive too?
I miss diving now. Such a long time ago I did that. Thank you for bringing back those memories?
Ohhh, how come you haven't been diving lately? Where have you dived before?
@@XennialTraveller I did some diving in the Philippines. And Europe isn't a great diving spot.
@@Svenywhere Apparently some of Europe can be cool for shipwrecks. But not just cool, but COLD lol
@@XennialTraveller with the right wetsuit cold water is still fine. I did my PADI exam in the Netherlands and our waters aren't warm either but you can't feel it with the right wetsuit. And you are right there are some places with cool ship wrecks. But it is just an expensive hobby and I like to see tropical fish more.
@@Svenywhere Yeah. I did my Open Water in in the UK in February. Water temperature 4 degrees Celcius, visibility 3-4m. leaky dry suit (that was obviously crazy difficult for a beginner to control). Yeah, I'm sticking to tropical waters where I mostly don't even need a wetsuit haha
Amazing underwater footage, were you filming with a gopro? Diving looks like a lot of fun and the islands are amazing the sand is so light! It really looks like the place to be, will definitely put it on our list, that island life is goals! The night time diving is crazy, how do you see everything in the water? So cool, thanks for sharing!
I was using a Panasonic LX10 (my former main vlogging camera) in an underwater housing. I think it's much better than a GoPro because of its large sensor and lots of settings that can be controlled. Night diving was really a revelation! It was actually a full moon, so actually even without light you can see a bit underwater (we weren't very deep - around 10-15m), but we all had torches and it was really magical! Thanks for watching!
Another amazing looking dive, love the footage you were able to get! Shame you didn't manage to get any of the night dive - i bet that must have been quite different! So cool that with the live aboard you also got a bit of a small community of friends together for those days! :)
Night dive was honestly such a super calm experience. Next time I can definitely take my camera along for some video. I do always try and make sure I'm comfortable and safe diving new types of dives before taking the camera. And the guys on the boat were really great to hang out with! Thanks for watching :)
@@XennialTraveller Yeah, understandable. On our first (and so far only) dive we only took our camera for a short time and not too deep, jussst in case. Sounds awesome!
@@slightlyoffthebeatentrack7322 Oh... where was your dive?
@@XennialTraveller We did it in the Philippines from Dumagete city on Negros Island. They took us to an island called Apo famous for it's turtles. It has a protected reef so it was a great first experience! 😍
@@slightlyoffthebeatentrack7322 Oh, I've definitely heard of the Apo reef! And glad you had a great first experience. Makes a big difference how you'll approach diving afterwards
Oooh, those black and white striped fish with the yellow are so vibrant. And that one with the big eyes!!! What an amazing dive! Looked like you guys were having so much fun on that beach. That food looked pretty great also. I don't dive, but this whole trip looks amazing. We saw that same kind of spotted blowfish in Bora Bora. Did you say how much it cost???
Tropical fish are the most colourful! The whole trip cost about EUR650 (twin cabin), plus I think another EUR 50 for equipment rental, which is really quite good for a liveaboard. The more luxury ones can be like EUR1,000+. Maybe you should diving a shot since I think you like fish and sealife too! It's an incredible feeling.
@@XennialTraveller I really should give it a try some time!
Radiant Wanderings Yeah! Maybe easiest to do the Open Water course wherever you live you so you don't 'waste' holiday time on learning the basics rather than enjoying yourself.
You have to do scuba diving in Egypt also...is the clearest water in the world
nice