The PADI System of diver education allows anyone from the age of 8 to experience the thrills of the underwater world.

Diving allows you a degree of freedom and weightlessness that is normally only experienced by astronauts.

Most people begin their Diving Education with the PADI system, the PADI Open Water Course. This takes three to four days depending on where you learn and qualifies you to dive 18m with any other similarly qualified diver.

For you, who have never dived before, a 1 hour taste of scubadiving in a calm and shallow water. We go trough the very basics of dive theory and then do one dive with an instructor.

Minimum age: 10
Recommended time: 3 hours
Price: 2500 baht

Entry level for scubadiving, which teaches you the information and skills to dive safely the tropical waters around the world, and rent or buy your own scuba, fill up your tanks and take apart for any organised divetrips. Maximum allowed depth after the course will be 18m/60ft.

Course structure: 5 academic sessions (video optional) Confined water session 1-2 hours of practicing the skills in a shallow water you might need during your open water dives, final examination and 4 open water dives.

Minimum age: 15
Minimum age: 10 (Junior Open Water)
Recommended time: 3 to 4 days
Price: 9000 THB (PADI +1500 thb for mandatory book)

If you want to improve your diving skills and learn about different topics you can do underwater, this course is for you! More relaxed than Open Water Course, since you already know how to dive, no exams! This course is based on diving and doing the things you’d love to do underwater, and the goal is to gain experience and to began more confident. There is a list of more than 20 different elective dives to chose from, just to mention a few; deep diver, drift diver, night diver, cavern diver, multilevel diver, research diver, wreck diver, underwater hunter, u-w naturalist, u-w navigator, u-w photographer, u-w videographer, u-w scooter… etc.

This course is a good idea to take for example straight after your Open Water Diver Course!

Course structure: 5 dives, 5 different topics (2 core dives, deep and navigation and 3 dives of your own choice)

Minimum age: 15
Minimum age: 12 (Junior Advanced Open Water)
Minimun training: Open Water Diver or qualifying rating (CMAS 1)
Recommended time: 2 to 3 days
Price: 8000 thb (PADI +1500 thb for mandatory book)

After your Advanced and a few fun dives you might want to do some more challenging dives maybe in a more demanding environment, then the possibility that a problem might accure to you or your buddy will encreace and that is the time it would be better to know how to handle rescue situations. Starting from simple skills such as how to handle a cramp in your buddys leg or all the way how to manage a whole rescue scenario. Rescue diver course will teach you all of this, and it’s maybe the most fun of the courses.

Course structure: Rescue Diver video, 4 academic sessions and exams+final exam, Inwater training 5 sessions

Minimum age: 15
Minimum age: 12 (Junior Rescue Diver)
Minimum training: PADI Advanced Open Water or qualifying rating (CMAS 2) / SSI Stress and Rescue course you can take right after SSI Open Water Diver course.
Recommended time: 3 to 4 days
Price: 10000 thb (PADI +1500 thb for mandatory book)

Who would not rather dive with a buddy who knows CPR or basic medical first aid? Excellent medical course also for non divers. This certification or qualifying rating you need for example to be certified as a PADI Rescue Diver or PADI Divemaster.

Course structure: Academics, video and practical training.

Minimum age: -
Minimum training: -
Recommended time: 4 to 8 hours
Price: 4000 thb

Want to become pro diver? Divemaster course is the first professional diving course, during the course you get to know a lot, so take your time. It can be done in two weeks, but experience goes a long way. Course schedule depends a lot of you, your instructor and your co-divemaster candidates. Twelve topics make up the Knowledge Development module. You’ll cover these topics through independent study, projects, and discussions. Inwater practice goals are to emprove your dive skills and rescue skills, act as a rolemodel for beginners, learn to assist instructors at their work and deal whit a actual students and fun divers. Plus you’ll learn managing, marketing, equipment, organising and how to handle groups. Upon completing all the reguirements for certification, you’ll become a PADI Divemaster, a member of PADI, the world’s largest and most respected organization of dive leaders and professionals.

Minimum age: 18
Minimun training: Rescue diver or qualifying rating
Recommended time: 2-8 weeks
Price: 25 000 thb

Fresh up your Scuba skills

Minimum age: -
Minimum training: -
Recommended time: 6 hours
Price: 2000 thb