Koh Tao Diving Information
Scuba Diving Courses on Koh Tao Thailand
Divemaster (DM)
[ No Comments ] Posted on 02.11.10 under
Become a Dive Master here on Koh Tao!
Congratulations! You are already an experienced diver so why not turn your passion into a career? Why not consider a change of profession or maybe just a break from it? Become a PADI professional and live the tropical life! Does the Koh Tao lifestyle appeal to you? Stay here and pass on the pleasure of diving to everyone you meet!
The Divemaster course can be completed in very little time, but if you plan to stay a few weeks, or a couple of months you will be able to gain more experience. There are two options available to you.
If your time is limited, you can cover all of the requirements within 2 weeks! A minimum of 20 dives is required to start the course and you will need to have logged 60 dives to complete the course. However, the Divemaster course is normally conducted as an internship with unlimited dives; you can also study at you own pace covering all of the theory subjects: physics, physiology, RDP/decompression and equipment. Theory lectures are also offered every 2 weeks for these topics in conjunction with the IDC.
The training doesn’t just focus on developing knowledge but also the perfection of skills as well as your own diving abilities. You will be responsible for other divers during the underwater excursions both as fun divers and as part of a course. You will develop your leadership skills and become a role model for many other divers. You will be able to get all of the experience necessary by assisting on various courses such as Open Water Diver, Advanced Open Water Diver and Rescue Diver.
In choosing the internship option (with unlimited dives!!), you will be become part of the team!
You will practice equipment exchange underwater, draw an underwater map of a dive site, take swim tests and participate in other activities that will make your Dive Master Course an unforgettable experience!
Whatever the day, you will be able to take advantage of the unlimited fun dives, and the best part is that you will be able to learn this new profession as if on holiday, in a tropical location! I guarantee professional training in the most relaxed of environments!
PADI Divemaster Course
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The role of a PADI Divemaster
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The role of the Dive Master
- Supervise educational and non educational diving by planning, organising and leading dives independently.
- Assist a diving instructor during training sessions in confined and open water, for all course levels.
- Independently lead students from the open water course on the excursion portion of training dives 2, 3 and 4 during the open water course.
- Accompany open water diver students, under the indirect supervision of and instructor during surface swims, to and from the entry/exit points and during the navigation exercises on dive 4.
- Accompany students during the advanced open water diver course or training dives from a speciality diver course, under the indirect supervision of an instructor.
- Independently teach and certify PADI Skin Divers.
- Run PADI Discover snorkelling excursions.
- Conduct the subsequent dives of the DSD program, under the indirect supervision of an instructor, if the participants have successfully completed the first dive with an instructor.
- Run the PADI Discover Local Diving program.
- Conduct the PADI Scuba Review program for certified divers, or for PADI Scuba Divers who want to refresh their skills.
- Conduct the free diving skills from the PADI Open Water course in confined water during dives 2, 3, 4 or 5.
- Teach the Emergancy First Responder (EFR) course after having taken the EFR instructor course.
- If you are qualified as a DSD leader, independently conduct the DSD experience in a pool or confined water environment.
Prerequisites
- Be certified as a PADI Advanced open water diver or another recognised certification.
- Be certified as a PADI rescue diver or another recognised certification.
- Be at least 18 years old.
- Submit as medical report signed by a doctor, confirming your suitability to dive. The medical certificate must be dated within the past year.
- Have logged at least 20 dives.
- Hold proof of participating in an ERF training course in primary care (CPR) and secondary care (or another recognised qualification with first aid and CPR training) dated within the last 24 months.
Materials
Before starting your training you must have access to the following materials:
- PADI Divemaster Manual
- RDP the 2 versions (RDP & eRDP ML, complete with the corresponding operational instructions/manuals)
- The Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving
- Diving Knowledge Workbook
- Instructor Guides for Divemaster conducted programs:
- Discover Scuba Diving
- Discover Snorkeling/Skin Diver Course
- Scuba Review/Discover Local Diving
Divemaster Training on Koh Tao
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Go Pro
[ Comments Off ] Posted on 02.10.10 under
Become a PADI Dive Master here on Koh Tao – DM
You are already an experienced diver so why not turn your passion into a career? Why not consider a change of profession or maybe just a break from it? Become a PADI professional and live the tropical life! Does the Koh Tao lifestyle appeal to you?
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Role of a Dive Master
Supervise both educational and non educational activities by planning, organising and conducting dives. Assist an instructor during confined and open water sessions for dive courses of all levels. Independently lead students on the Open Water Course on the excursion portion of open water dives 2, 3 and 4 of the course
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Become a PADI Assistant Instructor on Koh Tao – AI
You have worked hard to become a Divemaster and you are now ready to put even more effort and enthusiasm into becoming an Assistant Instructor
Role of a PADI Assistant Instructor
Conduct the theory portion of any PADI dive course, under the indirect supervision of a PADI Instructor. During confined water dives, conduct demonstrations, under the direct supervision of a PADI instructor
PADI – IDC Koh Tao: Become a Dive Instructor – OWSI
A job in the tropics…. Is that for me or not? Continuing training to instructor level gives you more options and strengthens your potential for employment. …… Read more
PADI – IDC Koh Tao: Become a Dive Instructor – OWSI
Be a certified PADI Dive Master or have an equivalent certification from another recreational dive training organisation, be 18 years old …….. Read more
Advanced
[ No Comments ] Posted on 04.19.09 under
Scuba Diving Review – Scuba Tune up
The Scuba Review program is primarily designed to help certified and non-certified divers to refresh their diving theory knowledge and their practical scuba diving skills in and out of the water. A scuba review or ‘Tune Up’ is particularly recommended after a long period of diving inactivity and/or after a significant gap during diving courses.
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Adventures in Diving – PADI Adventure Diver
The PADI Adventure Diver Course is the first step on the way to explore the different areas of scuba diving. The various specialty dives in the Adventure Diving Course are designed to reflect the peronal interests of a diver and will let you choose the subject. This way, scuba divers will gain more diving experience, in relation to what they are interested in, such as Underwater Photography, Deep Diving or others.
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Adventures in Diving – PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (AOWD)
Similar to the PADI Adventure Diving course, the Advanced Course (AOWD) aims to train the divers confidence underwater by guiding the student towards his/her personal interests. The PADI Advanced Open Water Certification requires five specialty dives,where from two dives, deep and navigation dive, are so called mandatory dives, while the subjects of the remaining three dives are up to the divers free choice. Read more …
Emergency First Response Course- EFR
In case you would like to extend your diving skills, a first aid certificate is prerequisite if you plan to participate in a PADI rescue diving course. The Emergency First Response Course (EFR) is based on strict protocol and uses various training aids. The EFR course will teach you all the elementary procedures of being a first responder on an accident scene, be it above or under water. Read more …
Oxygen Provider
The oxygen provider course is a basic training for those who are interested in oxygen therapy, whether they are scuba divers or not. The oxygen provider training will introduce you to the fundamental notions of diving accidents. You will learn to recognize signs and symptoms of oxygen related emergancies and accidents, as well as oxygen related emergency management. Even though the Oxygen provider course is not mandatory, it is stongly recommended for Dive Masters and Diving Instructors to extend their oxygen provider training. Read more …
Course – PADI Rescue Diver Course
Once you have gained a bit more experience on dive boats and under water, you may feel the urge to extend your diving knowledge further, to be able to assist your fellow divers in a proper and correct way, in case of an emergancy. The PADI Rescue Diver Course is aimed to train divers to be able to spot problems and assist other divers in situations that otherwise might well have become dangerous.
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Specialty Dives – Specialty Diving Certifications
Make more specialty dives and become a certified Specialty Diver in the part of suba diving that interests you most! The aim of the PADI speciality course program is to familiarise divers with the skills, knowledge, planning, organisation, procedures, techniques and the equipment associated with different areas of special interests within scuba diving. Specialty Dives are the perfect way to increase your experience and better your skills. Read more …
Specialty Dives
[ No Comments ] Posted on 04.19.09 under
Become a Certified Specialty Diver
If you wish to continue your diving education and gain more diving experience without becoming and advanced open water or a rescue diver, then the specialty dives are made for you! Whether you are interested in the technical diving specialties such as Nitrox, Deep Diving or riding around on a Diver Propulsion Vehicle (DPV), having the time of your life, or the more standard activities such as Night Diving, Multilevel Training Dives, Naturalist, Underwater Photography or others, you won’t have trouble finding specialty dives that to suit your interests.
Even if you’re not a scuba diver (yet), there are still specialties that may well interest you, such as Project AWARE, Marine Resource Management and Coral Reef Conservation. These specialty programs focus on our responsibilities to our planet and how to protect our oceans.
Possible specialty choices and prerequisites for each (list is non-exhaustive):
Deep Diver Specialty:
4 dives over 2 days
Maximum depth: 40 meters
Prerequisites: Adventure diver or equivalent, 15 years minimum ageNight Diving Specialty:
4 dives over 2 days
Prerequisites: Adventure diver or equivalent, 15 years minimum ageNitrox Specialty:
2 dives (optional)
Prerequisites: Open Water Diver or equivalent, 15 years minimum agePhotography Specialty:
2 dives over 1 day
Prerequisites: Junior Open Water or equivalent, 10 years minimum ageNavigation Specialty:
3 dives over 1-2 days
Prerequisites: Junior Open Water or equivalent, 10 years minimum ageNaturalist Specialty:
2 dives over 1 day
Prerequisites: Junior Open Water or equivalent, 10 years minimum age
Become a certified specialty diver
Other specialties are available; please contact me here for more information!
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Adventure Diver
[ No Comments ] Posted on 04.18.09 under
PADI Adventure Diver – Adventures in Diving
You are already an Open Water Diver and you want to perfect your diving and gain more experience, but the Advanced Open Water Course seems too ambitious, then this is, without a doubt, the best option. This intermediate certification allows you to choose and mix 3 dives with different themes. There are no specific dives to do, you can choose the types of diving that you want to discover. No long classroom sessions, no exams, it’s enough just to read the relevant section of the manual and get in the water. Whether you are interested in photography, night diving, deep diving or many more, you have the choice! In just one day you can achieve your PADI Adventure Diver certification!
Possible choices for Adventure / Advanced Dives:
- Deep dive (compulsory for AOWD): descend to 30 meters and see the sharks and other marine giants!
- Navigation dive (compulsory for A.O.W): you will learn to use your compass efficiently which will allow you to dive more independently and discover the superb corals and the aquatic life around Koh Tao.
- Nitrox dive (optional): If you want to stay longer underwater, learn to dive with an air mix, enriched with oxygen and enjoy the aquatic life even more!
- Night dive (optional): Did you like the marine life by day? How about finding out how it looks at night? Discover the joys of phosphorescent plankton. Find fish in their sleeping places and learn more about the underwater world at night.
- Photography dive (optional): learn about photo equipment and take home a superb photographic souvenir!
- Multi-level / Computer dive (optional): Prolong your time underwater by planning your dive using the eRDP ML, a computer and other multilevel dive planning devices.
- Naturalist dive (optional) : Learn to recognize and identify the fish and corals you see under water. This coure will ultimately help you to keep a far more accurate log book.
- Peak Performance Buoyancy dive (PPB-optional): The perfect diving course to optimize your buoyancy and your breathing underwater. Learn how to do a head stand without holding on to anything. This is a great technique to observe rays and other fish hidden under table corals and rocks.
PADI ADVENTURE DIVER
Age minimum : 10 years
Maximum depth : 12 meters for 10-11 year olds, 21 meters for 12-14 year olds, 30 meters for those 15 years plus.
Location: open water (sea)
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Scuba Review – Tune Up
[ No Comments ] Posted on 04.18.09 under
PADI Scuba Review (Tune Up)
The PADI SCUBA Review program is used to evaluate PADI SCUBA Divers and referred student divers’ skills, who wish to upgrade their certification to PADI Open Water Diver level. The Scuba review program or how we like to call it, the “Tune-Up” is mainly been developed for divers who haven’t been in the water for a while. The PADI recommendation says that divers who have not been diving for 12 month or more should participate on a scuba review program, to make sure they are up to date and have not forgotten anything vital.
The SCUBA review program consists of two parts:
- The Knowledge Review
- And the Confined Water Skills Review
After your scuba review, you also have the option to go for an additional open water dive to deepen your experience. The academic knowledge review recaps the basic information, scuba divers have become familiar with during their entry level course.
The questions in the knowledge review are based on the questionnaire and quizzes from the PADI Open Water Course.
This not a test that you could fail! Your diving instructor or divemaster will be happy to discuss any question you did not understand with you.
The confined water skills review allows you to recapitulate all basic diving skills. Under the direct supervision of a well trained and experienced PADI Dive Master or diving Instructor you can easily review all your scuba diving knowledge in a relaxed environment.
The Skills to review are as follows:
- Assemble and disassemble your diving equipment
- Pre-Dive safety check
- Deep water entry
- Buoyancy check on the surface
- Snorkel to regulator exchange
- Controlled 5 point descent
- Regulator recovery and clearing underwater
- Underwater mask removal and replacement
- Breathe from an alternate air source for 30 seconds
- Breathe from a free flowing regulator for 30 seconds
- Obtain neutral buoyancy and pivot on fin tips underwater
- Simulate a Controlled Emergency Swimming Ascent (CESA)
- Hover motionless for 30 seconds underwater
- Swim without a mask for a distance of 15 meters
- Remove and replace your weight system underwater
- Remove and replace your BCD underwater
- Make a controlled 5 point ascent
- On the surface, remove and replace your weight system
- Remove and replace your BCD on the surface
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PRICE LIST – DIVING COURSES
[ No Comments ] Posted on 04.06.09 under
Price list valid from April 1st 2010
‘Discover Diving’ Courses:
| PADI Bubblemaker Pool and Sea : | 2 000 Baht |
| PADI Seal Team |
5 800 Baht
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| DSD – Pool and Sea |
2 000 Baht
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| DSD optional dive |
1 000 Baht
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Scuba Review:
| Scuba Review | Pool: |
1000 Baht
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Sea: | 1 500 Baht |
Beginner Courses:
| PADI Scuba Diver |
7 000 Baht
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| PADI Open Water Diver | 9 800 Baht | |||
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OW + AOW
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17 450 Baht | |||
| OW to RESCUE with EFR | 29 500 Baht | |||
| OW to RESCUE without EFR |
26 000 Baht
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Advanced Diving Courses:
| Adventure Dive | 1 700 Baht | |||
| PADI Adventure Diver | 7 000 Baht | |||
| AOW | 8 500 Baht | |||
| EFR | 3 500 Baht | |||
| Oxygen Provider | 4 900 Baht | |||
| PADI Rescue Diver | 9 500 Baht | |||
| EFR + Rescue Diver | 13 000 Baht | |||
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| AOW + RESCUE with EFR | 20 550 Baht | |||
| AOW + RESCUE without EFR | 17 050 Baht | |||
Specialties:
| Deep (4 dives) |
8 000 Baht
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| Search & Recovery (4 dives) |
8 000 Baht
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| Navigation (3 dives) |
6 500 Baht
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| Nitrox (without dives) |
6 400 Baht
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| Nitrox (with 2 dives) |
7 400 Baht
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| Digital Photography (2 dives not including camera rental) |
5 000 Baht
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| Wreck (4 dives) |
8 000 Baht
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| DPV (2 dives, not including DPV rental) |
5 000 Baht
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| Multilevel (3 dives) | 6 500 Baht | |||
| Rebreather (1 pool session + 3 dives) | 15 000 Baht | |||
| Naturalist (2 dives) |
5 000 Baht
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PADI TEC-REC:
| Discover Tec | 4 000 Baht | |||
| TEC 40 |
15 000 Baht
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| TEC 45 |
15 000 Baht
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| TEC 50 (local) |
20 000 Baht
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| TEC 50 (including 2 wreck dives) |
25 000 Baht
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| TEC Trimix (4 days and 4 night on liveboard) |
85 000 Baht
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| Gas Blender |
10 000 Baht
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| DSAT Tec Deep Instructor |
25 000 Baht
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| DSAT Tec Trimix Instructor |
25 000 Baht
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| DSAT Gas Blender Instructor |
12 000 Baht
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Prices of all PADI TEC-REC training include : manuals, gas (student & Instructor) and all equipment.
GO PRO – PADI Dive Master:
| DM short option | 20 000 Bath | |||
| DM Internship Option | 25 000 Baht | |||
| + Deep + Nitrox + DPV |
+17 400 Baht
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| Assistant Instructor |
10 000 Baht
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GO PRO – PADI IDC
| IDC + EFRI | 36 600 Baht | |||
| Ready to work Package: (with prep) | + 3 000 Baht | |||
| Advanced Package: (with prep + Nitrox Instructor) | + 6 000 Baht | |||
| Experienced package (MSDT): + prep + Nitrox Instructor + 4 other Instructor Specialty Ratings + Internship including 25 certifications | + 29 000 Baht | |||
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| DM + IDC + EFRI booked at the same time entitles you to a discount of 10% on your DM course, no matter which option you chose. | ||||
PADI Scuba Diver
[ 1 Comment ] Posted on 03.23.09 under
Get your Scuba Diver Certification on Koh Tao
For those who don’t have enough time to complete the Open Water course, but still would like to dive on Koh Tao, the Scuba Diver course is a very good option. The PADI Scuba Diver Certification can be obtained in only one or two days. This scuba diving course will certify you to dive under the supervision of a professional to a depth of 12 meters!
During this diving course, you will learn to dive and cover a little over half of the PADI Open Water course. You will learn some exciting skills and some dive theory. Once certified as a PADI Scuba Diver, you can upgrade your scuba diver certification to the full PADI Open Water certification at any time later on.
PADI Scuba Divers are qualified to:
- Dive within their limits, their training and experience under the direct supervision of a Divemaster, an Assistant Instructor or a PADI Instructor whilst applying the knowledge and skills that they have learnt on the course.
- Under supervision, plan, carry out and log no-decompression dives in open water under conditions for which they have been trained and according to their experience, only with adequate equipment and accompanied by a qualfied Divemaster, an Assistant Instructor or an Instructor.
- Continue their dive training by completing the PADI Open Water course and other speciality courses such as the Project AWARE and Equipment Specialist.
PADI Scuba Diver Course
Minimum age: 10 years
Maximum depth: 12 meters
Location: Pool or confined water (shallow bay) and open water (sea).
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Discover Scuba Diving
[ 2 Comments ] Posted on 03.23.09 under
Discover Scuba Diving on Koh Tao, Thailand
Is your time limited or are you a little unsure of your ability to learn to dive, but nevertheless want to make your first bubbles and enjoy the underwater world? As long as you are in good health and at least 10 years old, it’s time for you to discover SCUBA diving!!
You will learn the basic rules, concepts and exercises before venturing to deeper water. The basic program is limited to 6 meters maximum depth but a further optional dive allows the more enthusiastic to descend to 12 meters!
The PADI Discover SCUBA Diving is an introduction to SCUBA diving with a more relaxed approach.
Accompanied by a PADI professional, you will learn the basic safety concepts, put on the equipment and take an underwater tour in a confined water environment. The PADI Discover SCUBA Diving program can be conducted in a pool, in a natural confined environment or …… but above all where an adequate and positive introduction to diving is possible. You may decide to continue and to get signed up to the SCUBA Diver course or PADI Open Water Diver. When certain conditions are met, you can use your Discover SCUBA Diving experience as credit towards either of these.
PADI Discover Scuba Diving Course:
Minimum age: 10 years
Maximum depth of basic DSD program: 6 meters
Place: Pool or confined water environment (shallow bay)
Maximum depth of optional dive: 12 meters
Place: Open water environment (sea)
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