{"id":610,"date":"2012-04-30T11:58:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T01:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/?p=610"},"modified":"2012-05-07T10:56:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T00:56:10","slug":"phuket-diving-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/?p=610","title":{"rendered":"Phuket Diving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the last few times, I&#8217;ve enjoyed diving the clear and warm waters in Phuket. The first time I dived in Thailand was at Racha Yai, the water visibility was around 20 meters and the second time was at Phi Phi island where the water wasn&#8217;t as clear, but this can depend on many factors on the day. For a beginner, I do prefer Racha Yai, it&#8217;s a little less dawning for the less experienced and the water is a little calmer.<\/p>\n<p>It took a lot to encourage my daughter to dive as she is scared of fish and deep water, but she did well to get into the water and down to the bottom<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20120430-085900.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20120430-085900.jpg?resize=455%2C340\" alt=\"20120430-085900.jpg\" width=\"455\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sea life is ok, but don&#8217;t expect to many large fish in the shallows. On our dive, we did see many fish and a few Moray Eels, we were lucky to see a lion fish which is extremely dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>The last few dive places we used have now gone out of business, not sure why, maybe it&#8217;s too competitive. This time, we booked through a dive centre on the back beach road.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20120430-090616.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20120430-090616.jpg?resize=455%2C340\" alt=\"20120430-090616.jpg\" width=\"455\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cost is reasonable at 4500 baht (approx $143 Aus), this included 3 dives at Racha Yai and Racha Noi, all equipment, lunch and all drinks while on the boat as well as transfers to and from the hotel.<\/p>\n<p>The trip is approx 1 and a half hours or 2 hours if you dive Racha Noi, it s about the same, or a little longer if going to Phi Phi.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/GOPR0789.avi\">Diving Phuket<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the last few times, I&#8217;ve enjoyed diving the clear and warm waters in Phuket. The first time I dived in Thailand was at Racha Yai, the water visibility was around 20 meters and the second time was at Phi Phi island where the water wasn&#8217;t as clear, but this can depend on many factors &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/?p=610\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Phuket Diving&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}