30th November 2017

The weathers not been that great.  It's been mostly raining heavily during the early hours and it's been pretty choppy at sea.  The visibility has been pretty grim, 10 meters max but most days diving, it's been around 7 meters tops.  We still be out and about.  My Eco Intern came down with some illness, had a temperature of 40 and resting heart rate of 140  ..so the clinic suggested he went to Koh Samui Thai International hospital for more tests etc,   ..the funny thing is, he stayed there for just under a week and he still hasn't got a proper diagnosis of what he had./got   Thankfully he's just about recovered now.  He's been missing on the odd occasion, mostly in the mornings but I've learnt that this is more due to one too many beers the night before   ..so I have come to have no sympathy for him at all.  Youngsters today!!!   Arghh!!!!!!

Si's OK  ..he's busy, same same  ..his back and his ears have been bothering him but he soldiers on and doesn't complain at all.  He's my hero!!!

I've just finished a 4 person Reef Check Course  ..it's a 4 day course which teaches people how to survey / monitoring fish, invertebrates and substrates using a standardized method which they'll be able to join teams worldwide to submit important scientific data to help scientists access the health of the reefs.   So, even though I'm supposed to have finished,  I've got 2 of the students coming in to repeat exams,  one chap who's older, doesn't really like to be told anything and is a little disruptive.  What usually takes 4 days with time to spare, has taken a day and a half more and that's if they pass.  All very nice but it sometimes makes me doubt my teaching :-D

Reef Check Course

Coral Transplant dives after the Reef Check