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preview movie The King Cruiser Wreck - Video 3 min.

On the 4th of May 1997 the 85-meter passenger ferry 'King Cruiser' on a routine run to the Phi-Phi Islands made history by straying several miles off course and hitting the Anemone Reef. With a huge hole ripped in her hull the ship went down in less than an hour. The absolutely ideal weather conditions at the time of the accident no doubt greatly aided the rescue efforts and fortunately the several hundred passengers (mostly tourists) and crew on board at the time all managed to escape to safety.

Most of the passengers on board that day may have preferred not to participate in this little drama, but surviving a ship-wreck would certainly be an unforgetable experience and make for an unusual and exciting travel story to tell the folks about back home. Any passenger or crewman who may have wanted to congratulate the captain of the vessel for his creative navigational skills, or to thank him for stopping the boat so everyone could enjoy a swim would have been sadly disappointed as he had already fled the scene.

If the Phuket scuba dive scene had been previously lacking in anything it was a decent ship-wreck for divers to explore. This unplanned addition to the Anemone Reef and shark point has become one of the most popular dive-sites around Phuket. Not only is the wreck located near an already popular dive-site but it is positioned almost perfectly at a depth between 12 and 30 meters. With it's multiple decks and spacious open areas the King Cruiser wreck is providing sheltered living quarters for large numbers of fish and crab species. Over time it will become an even better dive-site as it takes on a patina of age, and becomes encrusted with a variety of colorful corals.

Film: Pietro Cusenza, Voice Over: Andreas Konzack, Music: Highland, Award: 2. Place Xarifa Festival Frankfurt Germany

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The Similan Islands in the Andaman Sea in Thailand are world renowned among scuba diving enthusiasts for incredible underwater scuba diving and sightseeing at depths ranging from 2m to 40m. Besides attractive sandy beaches, there are huge, smooth granite formations that plunge into the sea to form underwater seamounts, rock reefs and dive-throughs. As elsewhere in the Andaman Sea, the best scuba diving months are December to May when the weather is good and the sea is at it's clearest, even though there are several Boats that travel to the Similans during the off season, the boats during that time leave from Tap Lamu about 80km north of Phuket. The Thais sometimes refer to the Similans as Ko Kao, or the Nine Islands, because there is nine of them - each has a number as well as a name. The word "Similan" in fact comes from the Malay word sembilan meaning "nine".

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