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3 Days 4 Nights 11 dives
Price per person sharing
Standard Bunk 25,000
Delux Cabin 30,000
Superior Cabin 35,000
This unique journey is available only twice a year when the luxurious Scuba Explorer makes its way between the Gulf of Thailand and the Andaman Sea. See later Calendar entry for details of the reverse of this trip, starting on Samui and ending in Hat Yai in October.
For this trip we board the Scuba Explorer in Thailand's southern capital city of Songklah. 3 days of scuba diving 4 nights on board. Disembark on Koh Samui. This trip will not be exclusively gay. There will be other divers on the boat.
SATURDAY 7 JULY
Arrive Hat Yai via flights, bus or train from Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Penang. Scuba Explorer sets sail 22:00. Hat Yai Airport to Songklah Harbor drive time 45 minutes.
Recommended Flight TG237 Thai Air Bangkok 18:05 Hat Yai 19:30 Other possible flights FD3139 Air Asia Bangkok 17:35 Hat Yai 18:55
SUNDAY 8 JULY
Breakfast
2 morning dives Losin
Lunch
2 afternoon dives Losin
Dinner
MONDAY 9 JULY
Breakfast
2 morning dives Losin
Lunch
2 afternoon dives Losin
Dinner while cruising to Koh Kra
TUESDAY 10 JLUY
Breakfast
2 morning dives Koh Kra
Lunch and visit local beach
1 afternoon dive Koh Kra
Dinner while crusing to Koh Samui
WEDNESDAY 11 JULY
Early morning arrive Samui
Transfer hotel or airport
Unseen Thailand
Introducing Losin and Koh Kra
A unique 3 day 4 night live-aboard scuba diving opportunity to some of the most remote and unspoiled dive sites it is possible to find in Thailand. Located approximately 100 km east of Narathiwat province (southern Thailand) in the warm, clear, fertile area where the Gulf of Thailand meets the deeper blue waters of the South China Sea.
Big fish are abundant here because of the distance from the shore and the quality of the reef. This is a perfect example of a pristine healthy reef so the marine life here can be amazing, with black tip reef shark and bow mouthed guitar fish patrolling the deeper waters down to 40 meters and where giant manta rays and even whale sharks can be seen among the huge table corals.
People familiar with Thailand will know that tourism in the western Gulf of Thailand pretty much ends at Koh Samui. The remaining 500 kilometers of coast line down to the boarder with Malaysia is left to the prawn farms, fishermen and small family run Thai beach resorts that most westerners can never find because the signs are only in Thai language.
With no tourism along the coast there are no dive operators in this area and no liveaboards based anywhere nearby. Therefore this unique dive experience is possible only twice a year when one live aboard scuba vessel makes its way to and from Phuket and Koh Samui.
The M/V Scuba Explorer has a length of 36 meters and a width of 8 meters making her one of largest steel-hulled liveaboards in Thailand. The ships size and spaciousness will surprise you, the cabins are larger than one would expect on a diving liveaboard and the Sun Deck and Diving Deck are absolutely enormous.
The entire ship is air-conditioned, and can comfortably accommodate up to 24 guests in 12 cabins from en-suite with double bed to standard bunk bed rooms.
See Losin & Kra short video taken on our trip here in 2009
See pictures from our 2010 trip on the Gallery Page
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