{"id":12193,"date":"2024-03-15T23:59:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T10:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edwinov.com\/edwininnz\/?p=12193"},"modified":"2025-09-02T00:10:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T12:10:46","slug":"thailand-day-15-liveaboard-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edwinov.com\/edwininnz\/2024\/03\/thailand-day-15-liveaboard-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand Day 15 – Liveaboard Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Day 3 of the liveaboard, another early rise to a beautiful sky<\/p><\/div>\n

We are still at the Phi Phi Islands<\/p><\/div>\n

Our schedule for today<\/p><\/div>\n

Scorpionfish napping<\/p><\/div>\n

That’s the first time I see one of these shells<\/p><\/div>\n

Orange-spotted Spinefoot<\/a> (aka Golden Rabbitfish)<\/p><\/div>\n

Giant Clam<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

I would never have guessed but these too are sea cucumbers, the Synaptula Lamperti<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Batfish<\/p><\/div>\n

Yellow Snappers?<\/p><\/div>\n

Argh, the yellow fish again<\/p><\/div>\n

The Pink Skunk Clownfish<\/p><\/div>\n

Nudibranch<\/p><\/div>\n

At first I thought these are Red Snappers<\/a>, then Bigeyes<\/a> but I’m still not sure<\/p><\/div>\n

Soft coral, I suddenly realize I don’t know anything about these apart from that they’re soft<\/p><\/div>\n

First time I see these being green, maybe they’re angry!<\/p><\/div>\n

Crinoids<\/p><\/div>\n

Sea Urchin<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

We’re now at our second dive site, the King Cruiser Wreck<\/a>. Unfortunately the visibility sucks big time and there are more and more jellyfish popping up, seemingly out of nowhere. I hate them with a passion, it takes all the joy out of diving because you are constantly trying to avoid bumping into one<\/p><\/div>\n

Soft coral growing on the wreck, very shortly after this photo it just got completely out of hand with the jellyfish, they were everywhere. I ended my dive and went to the surface (after safety stop), everybody was scrambling to get out of the water<\/p><\/div>\n

Dinghies frantically picking up divers and bringing them back to their boats<\/p><\/div>\n

I mean look at that! There were soooo many of them. Some of the divers got stung by them<\/p><\/div>\n

And they’re big!<\/p><\/div>\n

Third dive, at Shark Point, soft coral dancing with the currents<\/p><\/div>\n

I find these fascinating to look at<\/p><\/div>\n

I wonder what determines the colour of these corals, I’ve seen them in red\/pink\/purple\/yellow and they all seem identical bar their colour<\/p><\/div>\n

This one kept watching my every move, I wonder if she was defending her territory?<\/p><\/div>\n

Sea Cucumber again<\/p><\/div>\n

Boxfish<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Some fishes in red coral<\/p><\/div>\n

Longsnout Butterflyfish<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Big purple anemone<\/p><\/div>\n

Scorpionfish<\/p><\/div>\n

Moray Eel<\/p><\/div>\n

Bye Shark Point!<\/p><\/div>\n

Nudibranch at Koh Doc Mai<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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