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Bull Sharks
The Bull Sharks are back at Chumpon Pinnacle, Koh Tao. This was our first trip of the season and 8 feeding bullsharks were seen. The opinion from our dive guides were that they are bigger, some female were up to 3m. So we are going back tomorrow Jan 10 2010 with a full boat again.. Happy Shark hunting guys….
Chumpon shark diving
Sail Rock Divers are planning a trip to chumpon pinnacles in a couple of days to check out the sharks…apparently there are bull and grey reef sharks everywhere… we will keep you posted…
4 New Dive Masters
We would like to welcome our 4 new Dive Master Trainees, Greg, Tino, Eva & Nicolai who will start there professional diving career in the new year. Good luck and remember to get those knowledge reviews done!!!
A new Dive Master
Congratulations to Steven Goodwin on completing his Dive Master course. Steve is working with Sail Rock divers in there Retail and booking office.
Whale sharks… any ideas?
Whale sharks….
So many questions and hardly any answers, we can speculate but how much do we really know.
First of all why in the last 3 years has the number of whale shark sightings at sail rock almost tripled? Where do they go, when they leave sail rock, do they head to the South China Sea or are they moving further into the gulf of Thailand? Why are maybe 70% of all sightings females, are they here to mate, give birth, socialize or just gorge themselves on the masses of plankton that accumulates here? Nearly all whale shark sightings are recording shark sizes between 3 and 5 meters, why aren’t we seeing the larger 6 to 10 meter sharks? The manta ray is also a plankton feeder, why are there no sighting (at the moment) of theses magnificent creatures?
If any one has answers to these questions please let us know so we can better understand the mysterious ways of the whale shark.
Sail Rock remains in my opinion the best place in the whole of Thailand to dive or snorkel with this massive shark.
Sail Rock Divers Go 5 Star
We are very proud to announce that we have been awarded the PADI 5 star rating. The rating denotes that we provide a full range of PADI diver education programs, equipment sales and experience opportunities while actively promoting environmental awareness, all of this in less than 2 years of opening.
We are looking forward to another great year of diving, especially if we have the same whale shark season as 2009. Sail Rock has become the new hot spot for whale shark encounters with over 40 this year alone.