Koh Man Wichai
Dive One and Two of Thailand, was with Mermaids Dive Center, which is rated as a 5 Star PADI resort but sadly I would have to rate as a One Star for the customer. I will explain this more later.
So the first dive was at the Five fingers area of this island. So the water temperature is 86 degrees and the visibililty is close to maybe 20 feet if you are lucky. The first was lead by one of the instructors from Mermaids “Sue” and she was very professional and soft spoken and she did a marvilous job leading the dive, and ensuring the safety of the divers with her. We toured for approximatley 40 so odd minutes, and during this dive we same many different types of tropical marine life, with things such as Barrel Sponges, and various types of tropical fish. I would rate the dive as a 6 star dive…nothing 
overally special, but at least I was back in the water.
Dive Two was a dift dive to the West of the island and we remained in the same anchorage position for our entry. Mike, lead the dive and newly certified instructor, and though I had only a few minutes to visit with him he was very professional as well, and a very good diver. We headed out West and then drifted to the North of the island. During this dive we were treated with sighting a sea turtle who on 
the first past seemed little interested with us as he headed off to the surface, but returned some 10 minutes later to swim with us for a few minutes until going on his merry little way. We also had a Batfish join us during our dive and he stayed with us for a good twenty minutes as he 
followed us along. There was also a great treat of seeing two separate Blue Spoted Rays, which were my favourites with the exception of the turtle sighting.
Overall a good day spent on the boat. On that note, the lunch provided to us on the boat was extremely tasty!!
