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Diving in Thailand Introduction

Scuba diving is fun, adventurous and popular. Thailand offers you fantastic diving areas in the Andaman sea and Gulf of Thailand.

Diving courses for beginner and progressed diver as well as Instructor - and Technical diving courses are available in any different language with us. We can also offer you half day and full day fun dive trips as well as dive safaris to the best diving areas in Thailand and Myanmar (Burma). Complete packages " diving with accommodation" and dive packages to special conditions are our specialty.

Fish and coral richness as well as really good visibilities make Thailand one of the world best ranking destinations ! Diving beginners and professionals are all welcome to dive with us.

Our dive centres are very well organized. Diving tuition is undertaken professionally and adheres strictly to PADI guidelines. Our small groups guarantee fun and a secure dive!

Thailand offers scuba diving in the gulf of Thailand, off of Pattaya, Koh Samui & Koh Tao, and in the Andaman Sea mostly off of Phuket. The diving in Phuket is more popular, than the diving in the more northerly parts of the Andaman sea, which can only be reached by boat, while these areas are considered to be the most pristine. The Sea mounts, dramatic granite outcrops, caves, tunnels, and extensive fringing reefs offer a great variety for all divers.

Thailand has a wide variety of diving, plus first class shopping and the worlds best food, etc.... all at great price. Thailand has something for all divers.

Climate

21-34C

Type

Reef Diving, Soft & Hard Corals, Some Wrecks

Best Time to Dive

Andaman Sea in Nov-Apr
Gulf year round except Nov

Water Temp

27-31C

Phuket is the main draw for diving in Thailand. It is located on the west coast of Thailand on the Andaman sea. The best diving is from November to April when the cool winds come from the North East. From May to October winds tend to be from the south east, are much stronger, up to typhoon level which tend to bring in poorer visibility.

From Phuket you can either dive the local sites around Phuket,
Phi Phi islands or Ao Nang sites, or  you can stay aboard a diving boat, and travel to the less frequently visited sites in the Northern Andaman Sea. Most of the diving is on soft coral reefs with very dramatic sea drop offs, tunnels and swim through's all adding to the impressive amount of fish life you can see. The one thing worth seeing is the whale shark which can be seen in the Andaman see at the right times of the year.

Phuket is a very touristy setup, with lots of night life, restaurants, resorts and tourist activities to do.

Phi Phi islands are a series of small and very beautiful islands. There are some very good dive sites around the islands including Kings Cruiser Ferry Wreck. The islands is for people who find Phuket to busy, as no cars or motor bikes are allowed on the islands.

Krabi, also located on the west side of Thailand, and operates most of its diving out of Ao Nang. Ao Nang has a wonderful bay which is dotted with James Bond style islands (Limestone structures rising out of the water). Krabi also has several live aboard boats that are cheaper than those that run out of Phuket.

Koh Tao has mostly, year round diving except in November, when big seas can cut the island off. Koh Tao is predominately a backpackers paradise, with bare feet, diving, sunbathing and relaxing your basic staple diet. Mainly it has soft corals and pinnacles to dive on, but it can also get whale sharks making visits as well.

Koh Samui is not a spectacular diving destination in itself, but it is a great place for a holiday, but you can dive from Koh Samui's Red Rock, Sail Rock and a few other first class diving destinations.

Pattaya offers year round diving as it does not have a monsoon season. It has a wider range of soft and hard corals due to a large amount of Plankton in the water. The large amount of plankton does reduce visibility to 8 - 10 meters generally. Pattaya has the normal range of tropical fish life and also has Thailand's first artificial reef. The reef has several WW11 wrecks and a new 1000 ton, 62 meter long, medium size landing craft recently sunk by the Thai Navy. There is supposedly a group of technical divers, that visit some of the not so well known sites, which are ancient pottery wrecks.

Pattaya, originally grew from US troops visiting on for R&R during the Vietnam war. It has now developed into a more general tourist destination with a large array of high quality hotels and restaurants available at cheap prices. It also has a host of non diving related activities including shopping and tourist attractions from a crocodile farm to Buddhist temples, traditional Thai massages

on the beach, tandem sky dives etc.... Pattaya is a good place for a family holiday where dad can have a dive and there is still lots for mum and the kids to-do without getting bored.

 

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