Scuba diving in Koh Tao

Hi all,

We are now both an official PADI Open Water divers. It’s the equivalent to a first star in the Israeli system. Judging from how Gali is talking, the second star will follow shortly.

The course was very funny. The instructor was an Israeli so the course was in Hebrew, besides us there were 6 more people. A couple that seemed to share a brain (I think they didn’t understand a single thing during the entire course), another couple of “semi arsim” that were great people, and 2 guys that were more into making jokes than into learning how to dive. According to what we have learned, in a dive you are in charge of two things: your air and your dive partner. These two guys managed to lose one another and run out of air on the same dive.

The dives were very nice, except for some annoying things they make you exercise underwater (mask off, no air, etc). The scenery was nice but to be honest, it’s not like things you see at Sinai or even Eilat.

We are now back at Koh Samui planning our next steps.

Gali & Doron