Up about 8:00, motorbiked to Police Boat 813. This police boat was swept more than 1.5km inland during the tsunami, and it's in the same spot where the tsunami wave left it, as a memorial. Wow.
Took my big backpack to the dive centre and got fitted for my dive attire. Then checked out of Happy Lagoon. Walked around town, and stopped for a shake at a cafe, and a huge storm rolled in around 2:30. Lots of thunder and lightning and wind. Stayed at cafe and had two grilled cheese sandwiches. Storm lasted over an hour. After the storm, headed back to the dive centre and waited.
Got taken to the boat about 6:30 and met everyone. We had an introduction from Stefano, a funny Italian dive master. He introduced all the other dive masters and the Thai staff. My dive master is Seth, from the US. Katrin, from Germany, is my dive buddy. An older couple from the US, Andrea and Don, are also diving with us. There's another guy on the boat, Bruce, he's done this trip on this boat 18 times now, and this is his 10th time in a row.
After the introductions and rules, we had supper, the the boat left, about 9:00, I think. We would wake up at our first dive site. I stayed upstairs and talked and went to bed about 10:30, one of the last ones.
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