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Discover Scuba Diving
This is an entry level experience, allowing you to experience the underwater world in full with an experienced instructor. You will learn some very basic theory and practice 5 esssential skills and then have two open water dives down to a maximum depth of 12m. This is not a certification, but can count towards the dives on your full open water course.
1/2 Day experience, picking you up from your hotel at around 8:45 and returning by about 1:30
Price: 3,600 baht inclusive of equipment
Scuba Diver
You want to learn to dive but don't have the time left on this trip to do the whole Open Water Course. No problem!! PADI's new Scuba Diver program lets you take half of the Open Water program over only two days. Included are 3 theory presentations, 3 pool training and 2 open water training dives. At the end of the two days, you'll get the PADI Scuba Diver Certification, and you'll be able to dive with a PADI professional to depths of up to 12 metres anywhere in the world. After is you wish you only have to do is find two more training days to upgrade to PADI Open Water diver.
Like all PADI certifications, this is internationally recognized.
Price: 8,500 baht inclusive of equipment and certification
Open Water Diver
This is the infamous PADI Open Water certification allowing you to dive anywhere in the world to a depth of 18m, with just you and your buddy. The course consists of Theory, confined water training sessions and Open Water Dives, With Merlin Divers this normally takes place over 3 fairly short days, so making the most of your Holiday.
You’ll learn the fundamentals of scuba diving, including dive equipment and techniques.
You'll earn this rating by completing five pool dives and knowledge development sessions and by making four open water dives.
The course is split into two parts. The first day is pool and theory and takes from around 9:30am till 4pm, and the final two days for the 4 qualifying dives are at local open water training sites. These days start at 8:45am and are normally finished by 2pm
Price: 11,500 baht inclusive of equipment and certification
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February 2009
Manta Madness
Loads of Mantas and excellent Visibiluty at Koh Bon in the Similan National Park
November 2008
New Artificial reef Arrives
MAI KHAO: Amidst great fanfare, a convoy of 15 flatbed trucks loaded with the remains of 10 decommissioned military aircraft arrived at the Tah Chat Chai checkpoint at 2 pm on Sunday after a three-day overland journey that began in Lopburi. The convoy departed from Koke Krathiem Air Force Base in Lopburi with the partly disassembled aircraft on Friday. The arrival of the four Douglas C-47 Dakota Skytrain military transport aircraft and six Sikorsky S-58T helicopters marks the penultimate leg of their final journey before they are sunk in the waters off Bang Tao.
On May 5, the aircraft skeletons are to be dropped into the sea about a kilometer off Bang Tao Beach to create an artificial reef in the hope that it will attract marine life and become a popular new dive site. The aging aircraft, which have been dubbed the “Coral Reef Squadron”, are US-built and served in the Vietnam and Korean Wars, during which Thailand was used as a strategic base for operations during its Cold War fight against communism.
At a depth of about 15 to 20 meters, the aircraft will be arranged in a concentric pattern with two helicopters in the middle. These will be surrounded by an alternating circle of airplane and helicopter fuselages. The wings of the aircraft were clipped at about mid-length and the rotors removed from the helicopters. All dangerous and/or toxic components of the mostly-aluminum remains were removed at the air base before being transported. The entire arrangement, to cover about 2,500 square meters, will sit near an abandoned offshore tin-mining sledge.
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