Arriving at Big Blue Dive Resort on Koh Tao we began the adventure of a life time! The resort was so relaxed and friendly. At night we would walk along the beach trying out different restaurants and bars, and watching people release paper lanterns and fire works.
After getting my dive ticket a few years ago, my diving adventure began with a refresher course. The next day we embarked on my first real deep water dive.
Reaching the bottom of the ocean at about 15m I looked around at the coral and fish. Suddenly I can hear clanging noises, all the dive instructors are hitting their metal torches on their tanks, trying to get each others attention. I look directly above me to see the big white belly of the biggest shark I'v seen in my life! It turned out to be a very curious baby whale shark. The whale shark followed us around for 40 mins, going up and down, coming right up to me and then turning just centimeters from my face. On reaching the surface the whale swam under one of the instructors and lifted her up on his back! It was the most amazing experience of my life and we were so lucky to tick diving with a Whale Shark off our bucket list.
Brent and I
The whale shark hand signal
The exciting dive was finished off by giving back to the ocean with a clean up dive on the reef.
