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Discover Freediving and Snorkel Trip

Travelling around islands in Thailand with beautiful reefs is fascinating, especially seeing the abundant marine life under water. Roctopus offers small and fun trips to the best dive sites around Koh Tao with our speed boat. With a maximum of ten customers we are...

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A DiveMaster’s Diary- I’m back in the water!

After 5 long weeks, I'm all healed and I'm back in the water! So so so pumped to be back. Being monsoon season, the wetter weather usually leaves us with poor visibility, however, this season this is not the case. The water is warm and it's some of the best visibility...

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A Dive Masters Diary – So I went to Penang

Now that I'm all healed up, I decided I'd head down to Malaysia for a little look around. There are a few options of how to get there, and I went el'cheapo. So on Sunday night at 9pm, I jumped on a night boat and got a nice little cot to sleep in for the 8 hour...

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A DiveMaster’s Diary – Sorry I’m late, had a fall

Hey people’s. I’m sorry I haven’t posted in a while. Due to a little fall off my bike, I was out of action for a couple of weeks. It has now been 3 and a half weeks. I took quite a bit of skin off my arm, ribs, thigh and calf. Oh and my toes? Yeah, they probably...

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Learning to Freedive

What is a freediver course like? When talking to friends who have never tried freediving before and I tell them diving down to 20 meters on a single breath of air can be easy - most of the replies that I get are somewhat like: “That’s insane.” “It must be dangerous.”...

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A Divemaster Diary – Work hard, play hard

Gday, So, you like to party. Here on Koh Tao, there are a ton of different bars and clubs you can go to every night if you're keen to wet the pallet and show off your heinous new dance moves. I figure that because there is such a big party scene on the island, it...

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A Divemaster Diary – My Favourite Dive Sites

G’day and welcome back to A Dive Masters Diary! So since most people that come to the island are coming here to dive, I think it might be a good idea to tell you about a typical morning at my favourite dive site in the Gulf of Thailand. As it is the best dive site in...

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Roctopus News letter – August 2016

With having an awesome July, we then moved onto the month of August with a strong start. The weather improved from June/July, so great diving conditions and also a few new staff to help cater for the incoming high season, all making for good reason to come and join...

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