http://www.techthailand.com Technical Diving and Expeditions Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:38:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Welcome to  MV Trident’s website, the only dedicated Technical Diving Operator in Koh Tao, Thailand. This is all we do to try and make a living, when we’re not diving wrecks, we’re trying to find them or training new tec divers and instructors. We run a variety of trips, some are ... http://www.techthailand.com/2009/03/welcome-to-mv-tridents-real-website-2/ During Richie Kohler's last charter he had the bright idea of one of us co-presenting his talk about USS Lagarto. The talk went well, I think, and the show was great, no pink snorkels or tyrekickers. It seems that though we don't have a Britannic or Cocklebiddy cave here in Thailand ,  there's ... http://www.techthailand.com/2009/03/mv-trident-at-oztek-2009/ We have a couple of trips coming up. July 2-5th we are going to the HTMS Pangan and the Tanker Maru. July 17th- 25th is expected to be a great trip. We plan to visit the Seacrest,Solimoes, USS Lagarto and Tairyu Maru, July 29th- August 2nd , HTMS Pangan and Tanker, perhaps a ... http://www.techthailand.com/2009/03/upcoming-trips/   Our first charter with Submerged Productions from Belgium got off to a slow start due to passports, airports and luggage handling, we dived the Akela, then continued eastwards into Cambodian/Vietnamese waters to search for the Araosan Maru. The first mark 5 miles from the US submarine's numbers produced nothing, but after radioing ... http://www.techthailand.com/2008/09/2008-season-nearly-over/ This year our first Lagarto trip fell on Memorial Day . Conditions were perfect, clear water , no current, no waves. We attached a new US flag to the periscope shears and removed some of teh smaller nets that have drifted on to the bow over the last year. Next trip will bein ... http://www.techthailand.com/2008/07/july-lagarto-trip/  Our first crew were from New Jersey - used to diving cold water and strong currents so Thailand was going be  easy for them.We started with a wreck we knew, the Nanmei No5 Maru and then moved on to a mark we hoped was going to be the Araosan Maru. We ... http://www.techthailand.com/2008/04/march-trip-and-new-rib-has-arrived/ Recently we've attracted some bad press about the  above trips, it's quite good reading and hopefully we'll get some exposure out of it. I especally like the bits about lots of divers paying big money to dive with us.The issue of artifact recovery has been around for ages and there's no right ... http://www.techthailand.com/2008/01/engine-room/ The last time the Trident went to yard we were bored stupid, then when she came back the weather was horrible for another month.This season, around November/December we plan to use our down time more constructively and do some cave training and hopefully see some of the caves we have ... http://www.techthailand.com/2007/12/new-buddha-for-mv-trident/ [youtube]rpYjKmMILyQ[/youtube] http://www.techthailand.com/2007/10/john-chatterton-and-richie-kohler/ We found our first new wreck in  March 2008, the Seacrest Drilling ship sunk in 1989.  We thought we had found this one   last year but it's a nearly identical sister ship . see our wrecks page for details. The 'real' Seacreast is a great dive, she lies upside down in 74m but ... http://www.techthailand.com/2007/10/65/