About The Dive Zone Koh Lanta
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About The Dive Zone
Founded in December 1993 on the island of Ko
Lanta, The Dive Zone had looked back on seven years
experience diving the finest dive sites of the southern Andaman Sea before
closing down permanently. Much
had happened since those early days: Electricity had reached the island, Saladan town had
seen the opening of its first bank, and in 1998 Koh
Lanta's one dirt road, which runs down the islands north-south axis, had
finally received a tarmac coating, which of course didn't last for more
than a couple of months before reverting back to a pot-holed wash-board.
And when in our final season the Island even got connected to the telephone
network, we knew that the twentieth century had finally arrived; whatever will they think of next .
. . ?
Our shop had also seen some expansion since the
early days. Whereas we
started off with twenty tanks, one single BAUER mariner compressor and
eight sets of equipment, our shop last season boasted twenty full sets of
equipment, forty tanks and a filling station with two fully operational
compressors. While back in the early days our guests had to make their way
to our pier as best they could, we even offered pick up service in our very
own pick up truck. Ain't tachnology something ?
Then, finally, in December 2001, we decided to call it quits and close
our business, not only because of old age and little tweaks and twinges
here and there, but also to make way for the younger generation of Koh
Lanta dive operators in their air-conditioned offices and with their
mobile phones glued to their ears.
