long time no writing - sorry.
i finished my instructor exams, and i did quite well in comparison to what i thought i would do, it was 3 days of solid exams, 1st day all written , second and third day all practicals, but i got over 92% on everything so it wasnt to difficult in the end. once we qualified we all had a big party starting at about 10am the day we finished...so by about 3pm we were all pass out drunk on the beach so we never ended up having a "night out".
we had a few days of then started the MSDT program, which is like a higher level of instructing, that was really easy all went really well. we got to dive with underwater propulsion scooter thingys, which was awesome, there pretty fast and save your legs, we went down to chumpon pinnacle and jetted around with the bull sharks for ages. managed to find the big daddy shark which is about 3m long, and fat. then we finally after so many dives got to see them feeding, this bull shark just absolutely nails this fish out of the blue, it was sick, but then it turned and started coming at me and my dive buddy, so we were out of there pretty fast, it was fucking terrifying.
unfortunately the day after that i ate something real bad and came down with food poisoning which totally crippled me so i had to spend a night in thai hospital on a drip, which was a horrible horrible experience. luckily im fine now though.
the final day of the MSDT involved doing a deep wreck dive on an old ship called the unicorn, it was sunk off koh tao as an insurance scam, the crew claimed it was carrying expensive cargo but when the wreck got checked out the only thing found on it was dog biscuits. anyway, that wreck sits and about 45 meters and we went to it of a technical diving boat, so all the guys who work on that boat are the bat shit crazy cave diving type who strap on about 7 tanks and swim into a cave towing a peice of string on a reel to guide there was out. nutters. fortunately we wernt going inside the wreck, the visibility was only about 2 meters down that deep so we were pretty limited on what we could do. it was a good set of dives though. got totally done by nitrogen narcosis on the first dive and i was just starting at the ship like "woooooowwwww" haha.
now the MSDT is done, there was a big night out last night because a few people are leaving over the next few days, including my house mate, owen. but apparts from that theres not alot going on on the island. might go diving tomorrow but i cant really decide. anyway hope everyone is well.

Ro