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[1. On one of our regular biweekly fishing boat outings. 2. Trevor Western converses with his friend Ringo. 3. Charles Bell and Alan Josey prepare for a dive. 4. Bob Skelton comes up from the deep.]

cabin cruiser, despite its unfortunate tendency to dislocate its drive shaft at inconvenient times, necessitating long swims for help. Vichai personally arranged several long-distance reconnaisances for us, and was a prime mover in club activities until a serious automobile accident put him out of action for several months. Back on his feet now, albeit with crutches, he will join our trips, we hope, soon again.

    SCUBA diving suffered for the first few months from a lack of qualified instructors to train new recruits. The arrival of U.S. Army Captain Bob Skelton and British engineer Alan Josey, both of whom volunteered for instructor duty immediately on joining the club, enabled us to begin regular pool and open-water training sessions, through which a dozen divers have passed to date. Bob, a long lean lad - leaner, perhaps at both ends than in the middle was an old hand at organizing diving activities, having personally formed one club among U.S. servicemen in Germany, and been active in two others. He had done wreck diving and treasure hunting in European lakes and rivers and in the Mediteranean Sea. Alan, almost as long, but less lean, had taken up diving as a university undergraduate in the waters of the British Isles, where "good visibility" means you can see your own feet. Later he helped organize and took part in a biological and geological research to the fjords of Norway. Now employed by Louis T. Leonowens Ltd, a trading firm founded by the son of the famous royal governess, Anna, Alan will be in Thailand for a long time.

    Jacqueline Gillen is a recent and welcome addition to our teaching staff. Jacky, our first female instructor, is an accomplished spearfisher-women whose catches put her male competitors to shame.

Foremost among our underwater photographers is Frits Menschaar, who is responsible for most of the pictures in this booklet. Frits gained his early experience in diving and photography in Indonesia, and brings to his hobby the meticulous technical mind of a trained engineer. His array of equipment includes a Nikonos, a Rolleimarin and a Canon EEE movie camera. Though he is a competent SCUBA