New Ewan McGregor film about tsunami
The dive centre I am drawing up a marketing plan for is called Similan Paradive and it is situated next door to a musuem dedicated to the tsunami. Khao Lak was one of the resorts worst affected by the tsunmai on 26 December 2004. The earthquake was the fourth deadliest in history and measured 9.1 on the richter scale. In just Thailand alone over 8000 people died, in total more than 180,000 lost their lives. The disaster has been turned into a new movie starring Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts called The Impossible and is due to be released next year. They both visited the museum and many of the locals in Khao Lak have been hired as extras.
Mad Thai dogs and Englishmen
Here’s a blog to make you green – with envy. I’m in Thailand doing a marketing plan for a friends diving company. I spent last weekend in Phuket staying in the seaside resort of Patong. Its notorious for its neon nightlife and is full of women who shout ‘Welkome’ at any passer by followed by ‘Massage’, ‘Ping Pong Show’ or ‘Bom, Bom’. A day of this was more than enough (not literally I should add) so at midday on sunday I headed up into the forest above the bay. On the way I was accosted by several mad Thai dogs (which guard every house here). You can see what I found on the attached video. 
Could sunscreen pill save coral reefs?
Amazing story about scientists at Kings College London developing a sunscreen pill from corals on the Great Barrier Reef . The pill could be available in just 5 years time so that experience of slapping on sun tan lotion every 15 minutes if youre a red head like me could become a thing of the past. Perhaps more importantly could it help to conserve our rapidly vanishing coral reefs ? I hope so but I doubt it. Rainforests like the ones in Borneo have long been known to contain a potential cure for diseases like malaria, cancer and HIV. But they continue to be cut down at an unprecedented rate.
Remembering the Wellington bomber
In the September issue of Warwickshire Life magazine I have an article entitled ‘Remembering the Wellington bomber’. For it I interviewed 90 year old Bill Bryce who flew Wellingtons during the war. He summed up why the plane was so special when he said “What made the Wellington unique was its geodesic airframe. The criss-cross aluminium structure meant that the bomber held up well under enemy fire, even after a direct hit. As a result many more Wellington aircrew came back from operations over Nazi Germany in one piece”.
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