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Rotting fish odour & welding with sunglasses | Annual dive boat maintenance

Lots of Thai fishing boats, rotting fish odour & welding with sunglasses - it could only be the annual dive boat overhaul in Chumphon boat-yard on the Thai mainland! 

This year the main work has included replacing sections of woodwork from the top deck and hull, plus a lot of attention to the engine, repairing ‘wear and tear’ from the corrosive salt water environment! The engineer who attended to our boat actually consults for the Lomprayah Catamarans [presumably he knows what he’s doing!].

We’ve also added a rear dive platform to make entering the water easier in rough sea conditions plus attached a second ladder to the starboard entry point to make exiting the water more simple.

The compressor housing has been rebuilt, plus we’ve added new tank ranks, increasing the capacity of the boat to comfortably accommodate 40 scuba cyliders.

Last of all, there’s a new paint job and color scheme to sporting the DJL Diving logo. Hopefully the dive boat will continue to serve us well in 2008!