Archive: May, 2009
How Heavy Is Your Dive Bag? A Guide to Airline Baggage Weight Allowances and Restrictions
How heavy is your diving gear bag? We all buy that great tec gear so we’re kitted and fitted the way we want. But traveling with it is not only a pain, it’s become frighteningly expensive. The U.S. PADI America’s Instructor News Blog today has a guide to weight allowances for major U.S. carriers, which they [...]
Read moreKoh Tao Ferry Wreck Is Down There Somewhere, But Big Blue Couldn’t Find It (Yet)
A large wooden ferry that shuttled goods between Koh Tao Island and Chumphon Pier sunk one night in late April. The crew was recovered, but the Save Koh Tao group wanted to find the wreck. So they contacted Big Blue Tech on the island to do a survey and environmental assessment. The problem is, Big [...]
Read moreU.S. TV Movie Explores MV Trident’s Discovery of USS Lagarto in Gulf of Thailand
American public television this weekend will debut a documentary about the mission, sinking and — 60 years later — discovery of the USS Lagarto, a U.S. submarine sunk by the Japanese during World War II in the Gulf of Thailand and found by Jamie Macleod and the crew of Koh Tao’s MV Trident. “Lost and [...]
Read moreMV Trident Embarks on May Expedition
Thailand’s pre-eminent technical wreck divers, the MV Trident, will embark on their next expedition May 18. The “Closed-Circuit Divers Australia” group has booked many of the spaces on the tech liveaboard, but more spaces are still available. The Trident’s Jamie Macleod says the trip will be both a mix of wreck-hunting and diving known wrecks [...]
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