Last week I went out diving with Koh Tao Easy Divers to film on the final day of the PADI Open Water course. We went to Hin Pee Wee which is a fantastic dive site near to White Rock, just to the west of the island. It was in fact my first time diving at Hin Pee Wee. And what a great dive it was!


Gill's Big Green Turtle...

Towards the end of the dive, one of the open water students noticed a big turtle lying on the sand below us. It was a large Green Turtle who let me get in close to film him. I may have disturbed him from his mid-morning nap, but  he was very relaxed and not in the slightest bit concerned with me.  I got some lovely footage of the turtle, and just when we decided it was time to start heading back towards the buoyline, there was much commotion as the students pointed out a second turtle cruising through the water towards us. This one was a Hawksbill Turtle, which gets its name from the fact that its face is beaked. The green turtle in comparison has a rounder face, and is much deeper in the body, growing to a bigger size than the Hawksbill. The Hawksbill swam right past us and I followed it for a while and I managed to get some nice footage of him too. Just another wonderful morning in the Gulf of Thailand!


...and the Hawksbill Turtle...