We will take you by longtail boat to a nice, quiet secluded beach. Here you can take your first steps to experience the incredible "weightlessness" feeling of being underwater. Try it and see!

Don't have the time for a full course? Then try our limited certification Scuba Diver Course including two dives over two days. Allows you to dive to a maximum depth of 12m with a dive professional.

The most popular entry the level scuba diving course in the world The - PADI Open Water Diver!

Beginning with some video's & knowledge development in our state of the art air conditioned classrooms facility, we then take you into our purpose built swimming pool for you're confined water training sessions.

Then comes the best part - getting wet! Four Open Water training dives at some of the best dive sites in the gulf of Thailand!

PADI - "The Way the World Learns to Dive".

*PADI Materials Included:
..Go Dive Open Water Manual and Recreational Dive Planner

Feeling a bit rusty? Not dived for a while? - NO PROBLEM!
We can tune you up and make sure you are fit, ready and raring to go!

Learn new and advanced skills from instructors. Choose any three adventure dives from the Adventures in Diving program. Perfect for those wishing to increase their diving experience who don’t have the time to complete the Advanced Open Water program.

For the real sports enthusiast! Upon successful completion, an Advanced Open Water card certifies you to dive to 30 meters! A Deep dive and a Navigation dive are compulsory, plus any three further 'adventure' dives
of your choice. Options include...

*PADI Materials Included:
..Adventures in Diving Manual
..Delux Data Carrier

A universally recognized 1 day basic first aid and CPR course and an important pre-requisite for the PADI Rescue Diver course. Teaching you primary and secondary care along with how to deal with marine life injuries and how to use a de-fibralation unit.

*PADI Materials Included:
..EFR Participant Manual

Not for the faint-hearted! - One of the most challenging and rewarding programs from PADI. We not only teach you all the steps to becoming a safe, responsible & confident diver, but also how to help and rescue other divers who may be in distress.

*Please note that to complete the Rescue Course, you must first be a qualified Emergency First Response diver. See our price list for special EFR + Rescue Package.

*PADI Materials Included:
..Rescue Diver Manual
..Accident Management Work Slate

The PADI Deep diver specialty takes you through four deep dives teaching you the techniques required for planning and conducting deep dives safely. Try it out and feel the narcosis at depths down to 40 meters!

*PADI Materials Included:
..PADI DEEP DIVER Speciality Manual

The PADI Digital Underwater Photographer speciality is a 2 dive program over 1/2 days, which also includes camera techniques, camera maintenance/preparation, composition and macro photography. We also give you access to our own editing suite and offer advice on the best software options and editing styles.

Diving at night is an exciting experience. The barracudas around White Rock have learnt to use your torches to hunt, snatching small fish from your torch light. Through three dives on the Night Diver specialty we will take a closer look at nocturnal marine life behaviour and navigate at night to the stage where you can lead your own night dives.

A great way to experience the relaxation and excitement of night diving. Combines well with the Naturalist specialty allowing you to compare day and night behaviour.

Extend your bottom time! Learn how to analyse enriched air cylinders as well as plan and safely execute enriched air dives giving you loads more time to enjoy your dive!

*PADI Materials Included:
..PADI NITROX Speciality Manual
..EANX-32 RDP
..EANX-36 RDP
..Air Depth Table & Oxygen Exposure Table

The equipment specialty gives you a basic knowledge of equipment maintenance and repair. During this day long course you will take a closer look at maintaining and basic problem solving for masks, fins, regualtors, BCDs and tanks. Extremely practical and useful knowledge for enthusiastic divers.

Four dive program taking you through various search patterns, improving your navigation techniques and teaching you how to find different objects in different conditions. We will also show you how to effectively use lift devices allowing you to safely bring heavy objects back to the surface.

*Must be Adventure Diver or higher, or have Navigator specialty.

*PADI Materials Included:
..PADI SEARCH & RECOVERY Speciality Manual

Being able to navigate your way around a dive site gives you more freedom and a much more effective dive plan underwater. You do not need to follow someone else's fins around but can plan your own dive. This 3 dive specialty will develop your navigational skills both with compass use and natural navigation techniques.

This program will give you practical help with mapping and navigating dive sites and is full of hints and tips that will make your diving more pleasurable. Combines well with Search and Recovery specialty and will be a valuable asset if you ever continue through to Rescue and Divemaster courses.

*PADI Materials Included:
..PADI NAVIGATION Speciality Manual

This program is designed to give you more appreciation of the underwater environment around you. Makes an excellent combination with the Fish ID speciality!

Get to spend more time on dive sites with this two dive introduction to multilevel and computer diving. You'll learn to use the PADI Wheel, a diving table that allows you to vary your depths during a dive extending your no-decompression limits, plus receive explanations of how to dive with dive computers, a popular and safe way of keeping track of your dive profiles.

*PADI Materials Included:
..PADI MULTI-LEVEL Speciality Manual

One of the greatest thrills of diving is just hovering mid-water in a school of barracuda. No stress, effortless, using as little air as possible. This comes from good buoyancy control. This two-dive specialty will focus on correct weighting using your lungs correctly to control your buoyancy.

Save air and energy and develop a more relaxed, controlled diving technique. Great to combine with other specialties where buoyancy is essential, such as Photographer, or with an Open Water course to build greater confidence.

*PADI Materials Included:
..PADI PEAK PERFORMANCE Speciality Manual

On a dive around Koh Tao you can see hundreds of fish. This two dive specialty is aimed at helping you identify fish by their shape and colours. A greater awareness of fish identification will help you learn more from others about the underwater environment and is the beginning of a fascination with fish behaviour. Combines well with Photographer and Project Aware specialties.

Cruise around pinnacles like James Bond! This two-dive specialty will teach you how to use and maintain a DPV, a battery powered propulsion vehicle for divers. Save energy in strong currents and cruise the pinnacles effortlessly. Useful knowledge for more serious tech diving, the DPV specialty is also a lot of fun to learn. Combines well with the Enriched Air specialty.

The Project AWARE specialty course is designed to familiarize divers and non-divers with the plight of worldwide ecosystems & what we can do to help protect aquatic resources.

This one day course includes two dives (or two snorkeling sites) to explore the local environment paying particular interest to the plight of local environmental concerns.

*PADI Materials Included:
..PADI AWARE: Our World Our Water Specialty Manual

The coral reef conservation specialty course is designed to educate divers and non-divers to the plight of the worlds coral reefs. The course develops an inimate understanding of the reef ecosystem and why it is so vital for its conservation.

Using Coralwatch, a PADI initiative in conjunction with Queensland University, AUS, you will contribute directly to the conservation of local reefs.

*PADI Materials Included:
..PADI AWARE: Our World Our Water Specialty Manual

On a dive around Koh Tao you can see hundreds of fish. This two dive specialty is designed to enable you to identify a wide variety of fish throughout different diving environments. We provide you with the tools to develop an intimate knowledge and awareness of the aquatic animals with which we share the underwater world.

This course combines ideally with Underwater Photography and Project Aware specialties.

This Specialty course is designed to create a substantial understanding of the aquatic ecosystem. We also endeavor to develop an awareness of the intricate balance of life within reef systems, to evoke a sense of responsibility and to expand your knowledge of aquatic life.

The ECO-DIVER course will open your eyes to the underwater world and you will see it in a whole different light. After this 4-day course you will be certified to join surveys and survey teams around the globe and submit data to their Team scientists.

Dual Certification results from the PADI Project Aware Specialty Course to introduce divers to the plight of worldwide aquatic ecosystems and to describe what they can do to help protect them.

In addition you’ll receive instruction in Project Aware’s Coralwatch Program in conjunction with Queensland University, Australia.

*PADI Materials Included:
..PADI AWARE: Our World Our Water Specialty Manual

This one-day program will introduce you to the Reef Check methods of surveying reefs and collecting data for worldwide research. It will show you the aquatic environment in an entirely different light. We’ll also introduce you to PADI’s Coralwatch Program in conjunction with Queensland University, Australia.

Worldwide aquatic ecosystems are in constant decline and without detailed information into their current health nothing can be done to preserve them. PADI’s Coralwatch program is a very simple coral reef monitoring system which can be undertaken by anyone our for a dive. Learn about the local environment whilst making a valuable contribution to science.

Our dedicated Divemaster Training Program, headed by Master Instructor Stiofan McAilan, is scheduled over 6-8 weeks.

We offer a more relaxed Divemaster schedule than most operators, which gives you a better opportunity to see how a busy dive school is run, take in a few more fun dives as well as spending more time with your instructor and our team of divemasters.

Learn to help impart that love of diving to people taking their first breaths underwater and learn to celebrate with them at the completion of their course. Crystal Dive Resort wants you to participate on courses with all of our instructors and on a wide variety of dive courses and dive tours. 

Working with all of our experienced Master and IDC Staff Instructors gives you a good overall view of different ways to teach and guide divers. 

The DM course involves developing your knowledge of dive theory, assisting on a dive courses, to develop control and problem-solving of diving activities; guiding tours, underwater navigation and customer relations. The DM Program can be combined with the Master Scuba Diver program, to improve job placement opportunities.

Participating in the PADI Assistant Instructor course is not only excellent preparation for an IDC but also makes you a more employable Divemaster.

Upon successful completion of all performance requirements a fully certified Assistant Instructor is able to teach the academic portion of all PADI courses as well as independently conducting the PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy and Project AWARE Specialty courses, increasing both your income and your overall dive experience.

With further training you are also able to teach the Emergency First Responder and Equipment Specialist courses. Scheduled over five days we teach you how to plan, structure and present effective academic, confined water and open water presentations. We teach you how to control groups of student divers and also look at valuable marketing techniques associated with the PADI programs that you will be certified to conduct upon certification.

Earning credit towards the IDC we also offer internship programs to successful candidates.

For scuba professionals & dive enthusiasts DAN offers the world's most popular Oxygen First Aid program, launched in 1991. Until DAN developed its oxygen training programs and line of emergency equipment, many injured divers did not benefit from the use of emergency oxygen.This course is an Australian "nati