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	<title>Thailand Tech Diving &#187; Thailand General</title>
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		<title>Bangkok Post Recycles Konefe&#8217;s Into to Thai Tech Diving</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has been printed elsewhere online before, but Bruce Konefe&#8217;s &#8220;Diving in Thailand&#8221; ran in Thursday&#8217;s Bangkok Post in a nice spread that highlights the increasing popularity of technical diving in Thailand.
Konefe, a freelance instructor who was worked with Aquanauts off and on for years, got a great platform to introduce tech to a broad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thailand Tech, Cave Diving Photos on Flickr</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aquanauts</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Khao Sok]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We love good tech-diving photos, no matter which dive shop the photographer worked with. So when we learned of a new Flickr gallery from ex-Big Blue Tech crew member Christos Kardana we just had to check it out.
According to the BBT blog:
The majority of his work was composed during diving trips with us to Khao [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Ayesha Cantrell: &#8216;Tek Chicks&#8217; Looks at Why There Are Fewer Women in Tech Diving</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aquanauts</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ayesha Cantrell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[She is prolific, that&#8217;s certainly one thing you can say about tech instrucor Ayesha Cantrell. In another post to the DSAT TecRec Blog, she talks about what its like to be a woman among the many men in technical diving.
Female technical divers certainly seem to be in the minority and I always seem to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn About Thailand Tech with Aquanauts at Dive 2009 at NEC Birmingham, U.K. Oct. 24-25</title>
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		<comments>http://www.thailandtechdiving.com/blog/2009/10/learn-about-thailand-tech-with-aquanauts-at-dive-2009-at-nec-birmingham-u-k-oct-24-25/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aquanauts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thailand General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the fourth year in a row, Aquanauts Dive Career Development Centre, Pattaya, Thailand&#8217;s only British-owned PADI 5-Star Career Development Center, will be exhibiting its technical diving courses and trips at the largest dive show in the United Kingdom. Dive 2009 will be held at the NEC in Birmingham, England Oct. 24-25.
Aquanauts founding partner and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Andaman Wreck? Storms Sink Thai Bulk Carrier</title>
		<link>http://www.thailandtechdiving.com/blog/2009/09/a-new-andaman-wreck-storms-sink-thai-bulk-carrier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aquanauts</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Phuket]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wrecks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Thai bulk cargo ship went down in during storms in the Andaman Sea Aug. 23 about five miles from the Phang Nga Naval Base, about 55 kilometers north of Phuket. All hands were rescued but the ship sits at the bottom of the ocean while owners and authorities sort out the insurance issues.
Will the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With No Training, Thailand&#8217;s &#8216;Sea Gypsies&#8217; Successfully Treat DCI</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 06:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aquanauts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With no technical training, indigenous fishermen of Thailand Andaman Sea have successfully treated nearly two-thirds of those who suffer decompression illness through in-water recompression.
The Urak Lowoi, better known as Thailand’s “sea gypsies,” make their living fishing using surface supplied air on the islands of Phuket, Phi Phi, Lanta, Lipe, Jum and Adang. While the opening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a Little Windy Down in Koh Tao</title>
		<link>http://www.thailandtechdiving.com/blog/2009/07/its-a-little-windy-down-in-koh-tao/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aquanauts</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Weather]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the best thngs about tech diving in Pattaya is that it has the best weather of any Thai dive area. It&#8217;s not seasonal &#8212; so dive sites don&#8217;t close &#8212; and the waves and wind are much less severe than Koh Tao / Koh Samui.
It seems the wind is whipping things up down [...]]]></description>
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