PADI Beginner Courses
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: 4,000 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: 9,500 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: 13,500 baht inclusive of equipment and certification
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.: Blog News
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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