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I’ve been travelling for almost two years and was meant to be starting at university in October

but the thought of heading home to rainy old Manchester just wasn’t an option!! Especially now since

I’ve landed a job in the shop at DJL Diving! So many travellers pass through Koh Tao and nearly all of

them can dive already or want to learn to dive! Making my job a great way to meet lots of new people! I

spend my days in the shop organising courses, instructors and the boat but always manage to find time to

look after DJL’s animals [Alex, Simon and Luke] ha ha!

When I’m not working you can usually find

me out on the beach which is about a 5 second walk away from the dive school, probably recovering from the

night before! There’s always something going on or another reason to go out around here. What I love

most about Koh Tao and DJL Diving, besides the people, would most probably be the different pace and style

of life out here; everything is more fun, laid back and I really am having the best time of my life out

here…imagine having that feeling of being on holiday every day of your life…well that’s pretty much

what it’s like!

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A new

shipwreck has been located in the Straits of Malacca. The wreck of an as yet unknown cargo vessel of

approx 2500 GRT was discovered by a team of technical divers from DJL Diving.
Incredibly, the wreck was

located completely by accident, we were actually looking for another wreck from WWII, a British submarine,

lost in the area after being attacked by a Japanese airplane. We’d identified the area the submarine was

based in and after researching the marks and planning the best way to get there we ended up taking 4 sets

of tec equipment, 8 side tanks plus a compressor all the way from Chumphon to Malaysia in a 4 wheel drive -

when we say ‘adventure diving‘ we mean it! We met with some local fishermen who very

kindly allowed us to charter one of their fishing trawlers. So preparing for a few nights of sleeping

under the stars off we went to investigate and keeping our fingers crossed that we’d find something to

write about!
The cargo vessel sits in 60 meters of water in the vicinity of Penang, in the Straits of

Malacca.

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cargo spilled into the sand around the crane as a result of sinking. The bridge sits upright and has nets

flying from its masts, as if clawing for the surface.

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The team also identified another I class Japanese submarine salvaged by

the British Navy for it’s mercury in the 1950’s. We also came across an enormous boiler at around

50metres that we believed to be the remains of what was thought a steamship. Possibly fallen foul of the

British submarines, it must have been a huge explosion as apart from the boiler there was very little

left.
The team comprised of Fri, Jeremy, Tim 2 and me, Tim Lawrence, all from Davy Jones’ Locker and

all of whom plan to resume the search for the British sub and to identify the cargo vessel as soon as

possible.

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