Samui Island Divers

The Adventure Diver course is a subset of the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course. Have you always wanted to try digital underwater photography, fish identification or dry suit diving? There’s a long list of scuba adventures you can take part in during this program. Who should take this course? The Specialty courses is a subset of the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course. Have you always wanted to try digital underwater photography, fish identification or Enrich Air Nitrox? There’s a long list of scuba adventures you can take part in during this program. Complete three Adventure Dives and you earn the Adventure Diver certification. It’s a great opportunity to work with your instructor to build your scuba skills and gain more confidence. Get a taste of what you like and enjoy scuba diving more than ever. Get credit! Each Adventure Dive may credit toward the first dive of the corresponding PADI Specialty Diver Course. If you’ve already taken a specialty diver course, ask your instr...

A second-stage free flow regulator happens when the downstream valve in the second stage sticks wide open. Most of us have experienced that at one time or other at the surface. You place your regulator in the water at the surface with its mouthpiece face-up, and the next thing you know, your reg is wildly free-flowing. Usually, all you have to do is put your thumb or hand over the mouthpiece or turn the reg face-down, submerged in the water. At the surface, a free-flowing regulator is annoying, but at depth, a regulator locked in free-flow can be dangerous. Cold water is the No. 1 culprit behind a free-flowing regulator, but there are less-common reasons, too. For example, there have been instances of a diver using their octopus reg to inflate an SMB, only to have it free-flow. A second stage that is clogged with sand, jamming the valve open. Suddenly, you’re immersed in more bubbles than those produced by a Jacuzzi. So what should you do if your regulator free flows at depth? Yo...

Have you ever wonder how your instructor or Dive Master always find there way back to the boat or finds points of interest underwater. The Underwater Navigator course teachers you the skill and techniques to give you confidence to find your way around. Academic The Navigation course will teach you how to use the compass underwater using the bezel and the lubber line. To start with we make things easy by learning you with the cardinal points of north, south, east and west. For example if the north is in the 2 index marks on the bezel and you turn round till the south is in the 2 index markers you are on a receptacle heading. We will also teach you   Methods to estimate distance underwater. Compass navigation while making at least five turns. Marking or relocating a submerged object or position from the surface. Underwater map making. Equipment Besides your basic scuba equipment, you’ll need a compass and underwater slate. Your PADI Instructor will show you h...