Mike Saunders

was in Similan Dec 2025 I didn't see any specific policing of this although the dive leader may have stopped me using my camera if he knew I had under 40 dives. there are rangers that go round in boats but I think they mostly check that people have paid for the park fee. The dive leader told me that other boats carrying Thai divers are very trigger happy in reporting other divers to the authorities for touching coral etc because they see it as 'their' coral and not tourists

Hi from the UK I'm an experienced warm water diver who loves photography of all sorts. Currently using Sony alpha 6000s in a salted line housing with two strobes. Not expert level but small and lighter for travel. lenses include the 16-50 kit lens , Sony 90mm macro, 35mm 1.8 Sony OSS and just ordered a viltrox 9mm f.28 to use in a dome port Next dive trips Tenerife in the Summer and then Komodo national park and Nusa Penida in the autumn in the interim I am investigating possible blue shark doves off Cornwall and seal dives off Lundy over the summer I wish I could spend more time underwater taking pictures but my trips tend to be holidays with my wife and she gets bored if I spend a whole dive concentrating on photographing one fish. As a result my photos tend to be of the 'drive by' shooting variety. The Sony macro is an amazing lens but doesn't lend itself to 'drive by' shoots. Just went to Similan islands in Thailand and there was a lot of surge and current which made macro really tricky.