On the 4th of May 1997, the King Cruiser, a 85 meter car ferry operating from Phuket to Phi Phi, ran aground on a reef and the impact tore a large hole in the vessel’s hull. ( Can you believe this happened whilst the crew was watching Titanic )(OK, I made the last bit up.)
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Chris: Rob has uploaded a stack of beautiful photos to Flickr of Koh Lanta, both around the island and also amazing shots from underneath the water too. You can see them showcased in the Flickr sideshow that now sits at the bottom of each page on AmazingLanta.com.
Chris: We’ve just added a new liveaboard to AmazingLanta.com - the MV Jazz, which is a luxury liveaboard that goes to Burma’s Mergui Archipelago. The Jazz also goes to the Similan Islands, Thailand’s world famous dive destination. If you’re feeling really intrepid (and fit!), you can do a combined Similan Islands and Burma trip, [...]
Rob: Happy New Year!!!
It’s been crazy busy on Koh Lanta over Christmas and New Year. Suddenly overnight it becomes the busiest time of the dive season as people want to be on holiday for Christmas. All the dive boats are full and the sailing boat is cruising everyday. If you don’t like the masses [...]
Sea Moths, Koh Ha Lagoon
Rob: Wow, what a week of diving. I had just finished doing the first dive of a Discover Scuba Diving course in Koh Ha Lagoon working on Koh Lanta’s Daytrip Big Boat. While changing my equipment, Natalie, one of the other instructors, said she had found a pair of [...]
Chris: I’ve just set up a Facebook business page for AmazingLanta, where you can see the video tour of the Hin Daeng and Phi Phi Islands liveaboard and also a bunch of awesome underwater photos taken by Peter, the liveaboard’s owner. I’ll be updating it with more stuff on a regular basis. If you like [...]
Chris: I got back from a week on Koh Lanta last week and an awesome 2 day liveaboard on MV Flying Seahorse, the Koh Lanta Liveaboard. I’ve added a bunch of photos of the boat showing the main deck recreation area, cabin interiors, dive gearing up area and the shower rooms so you can get [...]
The M/V Flying Seahorse Koh Lanta liveaboard
Due to last minute cancellation, we have some places open on our New Year 4 day liveaboard around the spectacular dive sites of southern Thailand. We are putting these places on special offer - a saving of 20 per cent on the usual price!
The liveaboard departs from Koh Lanta [...]
Bar Racuda, above the Lanta Scuba shop
Rob: It’s great to socialize on Koh Lanta after the day’s diving trips. In Lanta’s main town of Saladan a new bar has opened directly above Lanta Scuba’s dive shop. (We do bookings for Lanta Scuba’s scuba diving speedboat trips). The bar has been cleverly named Bar Racuda and [...]
Rob: Hin Daeng and Hin Muang the two premier dive sites south of Koh Lanta are nothing short of spectacular. Traditionally at the start of the dive season on Koh Lanta, it is manta ray heaven and this year is no exception - this week we’ve had up to 4 manta rays being spotted together.
Manta [...]
