Of leopard sharks, turtles and new DMTs!

Hello Everyone! Here comes the Barakuda News!

When a lot of people are getting ready for a new school year, we are lucky enough to not have to think about any sorts of uniforms apart from maybe a new wet suit!

The weather has been good but we had a couple of days of proper rain! Check out the street outside the shop on the picture!

Although it looked impressive, it did not affect the diving so much as we have been seeing some leopard sharks everyday, whether it is at Viking Cave, Bida Nok or Bida Nai। Can't really complain।




We are also sad to announce that our brazilian instructor Luiza has left us! How dare she leaving us to go home! More seriously we will miss her loads, and hope she will come back soon!





But when some are leaving, more are coming: We are welcome २ new additions to our team...Chris and Harriet, our new divemaster trainee। They will be learning how to become a PADI professional with instructor Ally।

If you are in Koh Phiphi, why not come diving with us? Or simply swing by for a drink and chat, we are nice people, we promise!

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Shark Dive.

Alain and Sebastien with our new friend

Yesterday was fantastic! We set off as usual in the morning, but as a treat for all the team onboard we headed to shark point PhiPhi, a dive site which need to have good conditions in order to get to.
And that was a pretty good idea. Just 15 min into the dive and we spotted a leopard shark at about 14m!

New Barakuda divemaster Ally and her first leopard shark!!

The visibility was about 15 to 20m.
We were pretty happy as it was with the leopard shark but about 5 min later, another surprise was waiting for us under a rock...

Two bamboo sharks! Not only it was amazing for us but it for our two french customers, Alain and
Sebastien, it was their first sharks. And who can
forget their first encounter with these creatures?



Finally 50 minutes in as we were coming up for our safety stop, we bumped into a small turtle who seemed to be very intrigued by our camera and came right up to it to check out was it was.

Overall a dive that won't be forgotten, beautiful weather and underwater conditions. So what are you waiting for? COME DIVING WITH US! info@phiphibarakuda.com