Know Your Dive Asia Team: Bee Chotmaneepithak

bee_smile_340h Bee was born on the 14th of March in Surat Thani on the Gulf of Thailand. She fell in love with the sea in her early childhood and enjoyed her fist dive in 1999 at Sail Rock near Koh Tao. This first breath underwater changed her life entirely. Bee is an outgoing and talkative person who enjoys life at it’s fullest.  It is hard to escape her positive attitude.

In 2000 Bee became a PADI Dive Master and an Instructor in 2005. Since then Bee did more than three thousand dives all over Thailand and has taught more than 200 divers.  Bee joined the Dive Asia Team in October 2005.  Her personality and love of diving quickly made her avaluable member of the pack. From November through April you will find Bee primarily aboard our Live-Aboard boat cruising the Similans. During the rest of the year she enjoys teaching new divers and working as a guide to Phuket’s local dive sites.  As an active environmentalist, Bee was the perfect choice to implement the Green Fins Project, a United Nations-sponsored program, into Dive Asia.

Bee’s favorite dive site is Elephant Head in the Similan Islands. She enjoys swimming through the gigantic rock formations and the sometimes narrow swimming troughs.  She finds her beloved Clownfish here as well, in the shallow parts of the northeast corner.  She loves to show others the underwater beauty of the Andaman Sea.

Besides diving, Bee enjoys  traveling, having a good meal with friends and singing karaoke.  She also likes to watch the movie “Gladiator” with Russell Crowe as well as listening to the music and lyrics  by one of Thailand’s greatest singers — Nantida Kaewbuasai. Her favorite book, believe it or not, is the Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving.

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