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...

Observe aquatic life without disturbing their surroundings. Improve the buoyancy skills you learned as a new diver and elevate them to the next level. Excellent buoyancy control is what defines skilled scuba divers. You’ve seen them underwater. They glide effortlessly, use less air and ascend, descend or hover almost as if by thought. They more easily observe aquatic life without disturbing their surroundings. You can achieve this, too. The PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty course improves the buoyancy skills you learned as a new diver and elevates them to the next level. PADI (Junior) Open Water Divers or higher, who are at least 10 years old, are eligible to take the Peak Performance Buoyancy course. Academic During two scuba dives, you’ll learn how to: Determine the exact weight you need, so you’re not too light or too heavy. Trim your weight system and scuba gear so you’re perfectly balanced in the water. Streamline to save energy, use air more efficiently and...

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 how...

We at  Samui Island Divers  offer a wide range of scuba diving tours for all level of divers to Koh Tao. Our Divemasters and PADI Instructors have many years of diving experience of diving in the Gulf of Thailand so you can be rest assured you will see the best the Gulf has to offer. We use two types of boat Catamaran a purpose built dive boat and a speed boat to get you too the dive site in comfort. The prices of the dive tours vary includes hotel transfers, light breakfast, fruit between dives, lunch, refreshments, full equipment and your Divemaster. The Diving trip starts at 7 in the morning with pick from your hotel (depending on location) for transfer to the pier. The boat arrives at the first dive site approximately 9.30am for your first dive. Lunch is then serve at 11.30am, we then do your second dive at another dive around Koh Tao. Maximum 4 to 1 Divemaster. We arrive back at the pier in Koh Samui approximately 3pm. For booking please follow the link ...

Here at Samui Island Divers we can offer you a vast range of dive tours to Koh Tao and Sail Rock most days of the week. The staff here at Samui Island Divers have lived and work here diving since 2004 so we have a vast amount of knowledge to advise you on the best dive sites here to suit your needs. The boats we use are modern up to date catamaran and speed boat which cruise to Koh Tao most days of the week, we also go to Sail Rock which is consider to be one of the best dive site here in the Gulf of Thailand. The temperature of the water here in the southern Gulf of Thailand averages around 29 degrees Celsius throughout the year so no dry suit needed.  The day starts at 7am pick up from your hotel for transfer to the pier, here we offer you a light breakfast Tea/Coffee. The boat leaves for Koh Tao or Sail Rock at 8pm. We do 2 dives in one day and return back to Koh Samui 3pm from Koh Tao or 1pm from Sail Rock.  For more information please visit our web site Samui Island...