Dive Review of Sea Bees/Genesis Liveaboard in
Thailand/Similan and Richelieu

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Sea Bees/Genesis Liveaboard, Dec, 2009, by Karen Guthrie, CA, USA ( Sr. Reviewer 9 reports). Report 5336.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$
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Comments	We signed up for two back to back 3 day cruises on the Genesis. The value is incredible it was just 890 euros per person double occupancy for 6 days of spectacular diving with free nitrox. The boat is clean, efficient and organized. The diving involved more marine life than we have ever seen and we have dived Palau and Fiji. The food was fantastic with 5 meals per day. Cereal breakfast, full breakfast with eggs and cheese and bread and fruit (which is edible because they are careful about the water), lunch and dinner are about 4 Thai entrees not all spicy and a snack before the last dive. Our daugher has severe allergies to Tomatoes and Barley and they took care of her by leaving all tomatoes off the boat while taking care of 5 vegetarians at the same time. There are 3 dives on the first and last day and 4 on the middle day making this six days contain 20 possible dives. The Similan Islands are simpler diving and some of the others on the boat were new divers. The 12 divers are divided into groups of 3 to 5 and a dive master is assigned to each group. This helps because dive briefings may be in English and German and other languages but were always complete with drawings of the divesite. The best diving was on Richelieu Rock. We saw multiple Cuttle fish in the same daytime dive, schools of fish that were measured in thousands, ghost pipefish, gorgeous soft corals and great vizability in water so warm there was no need for a wetsuit. On other dives we saw some of the above and a Zebra Shark, blue spotted rays, frog fish, and many baby fish including some juvenile sargent majors the size of bumble bees, and a tiny pissed off trigger fish. We also saw Mantis, Cleaner, Banded and other shrimp, Lobsters big enough to be scary, tons of Clown and Anemone fish, clown trigger fish and so many Lion fish that they got boring (still a little fun to photograph). We also saw Scorpion and Stone fish, loads of eels including Honeycomb Moreys and free swimming eels on the wreck. We also spotted nudibranches, a hermit crab, giant sea fans, box fish and huge puffer fish. They even celebrated new years with Champagne and aerial fireworks. The Thai massage in Khao Lak are about 10 dollars for an hour and leave you floating on air. We were able to arrange a day in Hong Kong on the way back without costing any extra in airfare. Cathay Pacific is a great airline with video on demand and more comfortable than usual seats.
Websites	Sea Bees
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	Fiji, Thailand, Palau, Tahiti (Bora Bora and Rangiroa), GBR, Cozumel and Playa del Carmen, Grand and Little Cayman, Belize, Bahamas, Cay Sal Bank, Big Island and Maui Hawaii, Catalina California, Isla Guadalupe and La Paz Mexico.
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, rainy, dry	Seas	calm, no currents
Water Temp	82-84°F / 28-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	20-150 Ft/ 6-46 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	?
Enforced diving restrictions	60 minutes.
Liveaboard?	yes	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	Charging station was large and each bunk had a plug. Rinse tank was large and fresh. No real place to put your camera between dives except under or on your bed or on the floor in front of the charging station. There were SO many great things to take pictures of that it made up for the difficulties.

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Dive Review of Sea Bees/Genesis Liveaboard in Thailand/Similan and Richelieu

Sea Bees/Genesis Liveaboard, Dec, 2009,

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Dive Review of Sea Bees/Genesis Liveaboard in
Thailand/Similan and Richelieu