Phoenix Divers Koh Tao

SAIREE BEACH - KOH TAO : THAILAND
PHOENIX DIVERS : Haad Sairee , Koh Tao , Surat Thani , Thailand 84280. Tel : +66 (77) 456033 Fax: +66 (77) 456034

Thailand has been a well known holiday destination for many years, but recently diving in Thailand has gained popularity. With a growing market of more varied and demanding customers, Thailand has many resorts and locations to choose from.

When deciding where to dive in Thailand, remember few other locales offer such a comfortable blend of traditional Thai culture and wonderful diving as that available when visiting Koh Tao.

Koh Tao is a beautiful island situated in the Gulf of Thailand. A tropical climate means that in Thailand dive conditions are ideal nearly all year round. Although the popularity diving as a recreation has been on the increase, Koh Tao's location has helped it to retain its un-spoilt feel, despite certifying nearly half the divers training in Thailand. Convenient for dive trips to the Angthong marine national park, Koh Tao is well served with regular access from Bangkok via Chumpon, Surat or Samui.

Conveniently located on Koh Tao's Sairee Beach, Phoenix Divers is a PADI authorized 5 Star Resort and SSI Instructor Training Facility so well qualified to assist you with your dive certification. Specializing in catering to our customers needs and schedules, Phoenix Divers help to make your diving experience in Thailand as enjoyable as possible.

Phoenix Divers employs the most experienced and thorough instructors with over 20 years of combined experience. We are happy to help you select which courses you require, and teach at the pace of the students, not the schedule of the dive shop. Groups are small, personal and set in the most fun, relaxed, and stress free environment found in Thailand.

Multilingual courses are offered in English, Svenska, Norsk, Dansk, Deutsch, and more. Phoenix Divers has several air-conditioned class rooms, a swimming pool, a spacious specialized dive boat, and superb equipment.

Phoenix Divers is able to cater to all your needs being conveniently located across from the beach next to AC Resort, Bar, Restaurant, Internet Shop, Store, and Booking Agency.

Phoenix Divers SSI and PADI Scuba Diving Courses
Offering both SSI and PADI courses, Phoenix Divers enables you to choose which course suits you. Below are listed the details of each progressive course, with both PADI and SSI having equivalent levels.

PADI Discover Scuba Diving / SSI Passport Diver

So you are thinking of having a try at scuba diving, but are not sure how you feel about it all. Well, with both PADI and SSI, it is not a problem as we offer a single day program which allows you to get out and go for a scuba dive with no diving certification. There is a brief dry land session to help you understand the essentials of what happens when you go underwater, but the real aim is to get you under the surface to see what an amazing world there is to explore.

The program is not designed to give you a full scuba diving certification at the end of it, but you are able to complete more scuba dives once you have gone through one with a qualified Instructor. What most people find is that the scuba diving experience is so incredible that they move straight onto the Open Water diving course, which then enables you to become a fully certified scuba diver.

PADI Scuba Diver (PADI ONLY)
It’s a common enough problem we see all the time; holidays just never last long enough! With the Open Water diving course lasting 4 days, it does sometimes put people off – spending 4 days out of your time off from real life learning something doesn’t always appeal.

With the PADI Scuba Diver course though, you are able to complete half of an Open Water diving course and still get a scuba diving certification. It does limit you to a maximum of 12 meters and you will have to dive with a Dive Professional at all times, but now you are half way to achieving the Open Water diving certification and the freedom it gives you as a Scuba Diver.

• 3-4 Days
• 1 Confined Session
• 4 Dives
• Learn Basic Skills

PADI Open Water Diver / SSI Open Water Diver
The Daddy of all scuba diving courses. Take a giant stride entry into the world of scuba diving with a four day course designed to teach you the basics of scuba diving and certify each student as an Open Water Diver. The course begins the first afternoon with an introduction to scuba diving and some basic classroom instruction.

The following morning continues with some more academics followed by an afternoon confined water session (shallow water) in one of the many coral bays around Koh Tao or our resort swimming pool. The confined session teaches the necessary skills required to scuba dive and gets each student comfortable with performing those skills.

The following afternoon is two scuba dives that allow the students to explore the undersea world and experiment with buoyancy and the skills developed during the confined water session. On the final morning the boat heads out to some of Koh Tao’s premier dive sites for the last two scuba dives of the course. Students get the opportunity to explore down deep, down to 18 meters, and truly enjoy their underwater adventure.

Upon completion of the dive course each student is certified as an Open Water Diver to go scuba diving to a maximum of 18 meters.

If you enjoyed your Open Water Diver course, the Advanced Open Water/ Advanced Specialty Diver course is just a few more days and five more scuba dives away.

PADI Adventure Diver (PADI ONLY)
Just like the Scuba Diver course, the Adventure Diver course is designed for those that don’t have enough time to complete a full Advanced Open Water diving course. Consisting of 3 scuba dives, it allows you to take your Open Water diving certification to a new and interesting level, where different types of scuba diving become more accessible. Lasting for only a day you are now well on your way to the Advanced Open Water / Advanced Specialty Diver level.

PADI Advanced Open Water Diver / SSI Advanced Specialty Diver
Now that you have discovered the amazing world of diving, it’s time to take it a bit deeper and start to explore some of the different forms of scuba diving available. The Advanced Open Water / Advanced Specialty course is two days in duration and a total of five dives. The course is not all about skills, but experience. The aim is to expose you to different forms of scuba diving, whether it maybe deeper, at night or taking photographs. The course starts students out working with some navigation exercises to help them become more able to discover underwater sites and still have an idea where they are. It also includes a deep dive, bringing students to new depths (30metres) and the chance to view new marine life. See some reef sharks, don’t worry they’re just friendly ones, or some large schooling barracudas and groupers, all from the sea bed.

Students then have the choice from a variety of different scuba dives. The multi-level/computer dive allows them to extend the depth and length of their scuba dive safely, while the peak performance buoyancy dive continues to work with buoyancy skills. The naturalist dive allows the student to learn more about marine life and the relationships that exist under the sea; while underwater photography lets you bring home the memories from you undersea adventures. By far the most popular option is the night dive, bringing you deeper into a dark and seldom discovered world. There are several other options that can be incorporated into the Advanced Open Water/Advanced Specialty course, so just ask email us to find out more.

One thing to remember is that all the scuba dives you complete on the Advanced Open water / Advanced Specialty course count towards the individual Specialty diving courses as well.

Once you finished your two day course you are ready to do some fun dives and really start exploring the world you have uncovered. If you are ready to gain a bit more confidence in scuba diving, consider looking at our Rescue Diver/Stress & Rescue Diver courses.

PADI Rescue Diver / SSI Stress and Rescue Diver
Now you have a few scuba dives under your weight belt, you are ready to start taking your scuba diving to the next level.

It’s time to take on some responsibility for not only you and your buddy, but also for other scuba divers.

If you already have CPR and first aid training you are ready to jump straight in and start to learn some of the in-water skills, if not, don’t worry we provide a CPR/First Aid course that is incorporated into your Rescue/Stress & Rescue course. In three and a half days you learn some basic and advanced life saving skills, both in the water and also on land. The course is designed to be a fun, yet challenging experience to build your confidence as a scuba diver. Of any scuba diving course, the Rescue/Stress & Rescue course is by far the most fun, getting everyone on the boat involved (no matter what their level) and having a great time. There is never a shortage of volunteers willing to help out with the rescue scenarios. After a few mornings and afternoons of skills, you put everything together, with adrenaline pumping, to complete the final diver rescue scenario. If you are like the rest of us and addicted to scuba diving, the next big step is doing some serious scuba diving and a look at the first professional level of scuba diving: Dive Master/Dive Control Specialist course.

• 3 Days
• Various Rescue Scenarios
• Rescue Unconscious Diver
• Rescue Panic Diver
• Search For Missing Diver
• Manage Dive Emergency

PADI Specialty Courses / SSI Specialty Courses
Having completed your Advanced Open Water / Advanced Specialty diving course, you can now start to look at the individual scuba dives you have completed in more detail. For example, a lot of people find that underwater photography is great fun and a way to hold on to some beautiful memories, but the pictures just don’t come out quite right. By looking at Individual specialty diving courses, you go into more detail about the specifics that are required to get a lot more out of your scuba diving.

Specialty diving courses are designed to run for a maximum of 2 days with different specialties requiring different amounts of scuba dives. Specialties available include: Night, Deep, Navigation, Photography, DPV (underwater dive scooters), Enriched Air Nitrox and many more. Please email us to find out more details.

• 4-6 Weeks
  
• Skill Demonstration
  
• Assist Open Waters
  
• Give Dive Briefings
  
• Lead Fun Divers
  
• Map A Dive Site
  
• Form Emergency Plan
  
• Manage Dive Boat
  

PADI Master Scuba Diver / SSI Advanced Open Water
Now you have reached the highest level of non professional scuba diving. Rather than a course in itself, it is more a recognition of you and your diving experience and knowledge. Requiring a number of completed specialty diving courses and logged scuba dives, the prestigious level of Master Scuba Diver / Advanced Open water is a mile stone in the educational scuba diving ladder. Please email us to find out more details.

PADI Dive Master / SSI Dive Control Specialist
As you progress through the scuba diving courses, it is very natural for people to consider getting more serious about their scuba diving or to just take some time out from their normal lives to relax and start scuba diving full time. Our Dive Master/ Dive Control Specialist diving course is designed to bring you to a new level of scuba diving, whether employment is your plan or just gaining more in depth experience. Take a few weeks or spend a few months in our dive shop learning more on the technical side of scuba diving, exploring different sites and building an experience you will never forget. You will be a part of our staff from working in the dive shop, to helping customers, to scuba diving, to the nights out together on the island. Your Dive Master/ Dive Control Specialist diving course is about personal discovery and developing lifetime scuba diving skills.

Fun Diving around Koh Tao

The island of Koh Tao is home to some of the best scuba diving in the Gulf of Thailand. With over 25 beautiful dive sites to explore, what more can you ask for when it is all right on your door step.

No matter what your certification level is, there are dive sites to suit you. Whether you are looking to explore the shallower coral reefs, swim through some of the breath taking archways or travel to the deeper depths of some of the pinnacles, Koh Tao has it all. No matter which site you dive, you will always be surrounded by an abundance of marine life.

At Phoenix Divers, our Fun Divers are just as important to us as our Students. In fact most students that certify with us stay on to become our Fun Divers, and keep coming back. With equipment that is kept to a very high standard and small groups usually kept to 3 buddy groups per Dive Master, your dives with Phoenix Divers are the sort that will leave lasting good memories.

So how does it all work? Well firstly, we endeavor to be one of a few dive boats at dive site at one time. This means being flexible with our departure times. The dive boat goes out for 2 dives in the morning and then is out again for 2 dives in the afternoon. The morning dives leave at either 7am or 9pm to avoid being on a congested dive site and the afternoon dives leave at 1pm. Night Dives are typically available throughout the year, but we do have to cancel occasionally if the weather conditions are not safe. We also offer the chance of Full Day trips to Sail Rock, near to Koh Phangan. This is a very popular trip as it gives you the chance to leave late, have 2 dives and lunch all on the boat before returning in the mid afternoon. Sail Rock is not a site we are able to dive everyday, but we can usually arrange a trip out there on request.

Remember if it’s been a while since you last dived (usually over 6 months – experience depending) we will need you do a Scuba Refreshment to make sure you are comfortable and ready for the first time you get back in the water. To learn more just read the section below.

Scuba Review & Fun Dives

If you haven’t been diving for some time, you will need to refresh your basic knowledge and skills.

Spending one afternoon, we can get you back to a safe and comfortable level where your fun diving is really just that … FUN!

The Scuba Review consists of a theory refresher, skills work (to make sure you are still familiar with all the equipment and how it all works) and then two fun dives to ensure that your buoyancy control and awareness are at a good level

When you go out for your first fun dives after the Scuba Review, you will really feel the benefit.

All Fun Dives are led by a Dive Master to give you the chance to see as greater a diversity of marine life as possible.

All groups are kept small to ensure that you get the most out of your dives. We also vary our departure time, so as to avoid crowded dive sites.

• Phoenix Divers is insured with the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) and is an official partner of the Hyperbaric Services of Thailand (H.S.T.)
• Boat is fully equipped with oxygen, first aid kit, fire extinguishers, life jackets, and a fully trained staff to handle any emergency.
• Phoenix Divers is also an official agent for Divers Alert Network (DAN), being able to offer personal dive insurance.

Dive Sites

Chumphon Pinnacle | 14-40m
A large pinnacle surrounded by smaller ones. Hosts gray reef sharks, rays, eels, barracuda, and the occasional whale shark.

Mango Bay | 2-14m
Popular with beginners and snorkellers, this site contains an array of corals including mushroom, staghorn, and table corals.

Green Rock | 3-28m
A huge pile of boulders and rocks Green Rock provides numerous swim-thru’s and number of trigger fish that inhabit the area.

Red Rock | 1-22m
A pinnacle near the shore, but the right compass heading will bring you straight to the entrance of the famous swim-thru where you might see a clown trigger fish.

Japanese Gardens | 12m max
Named for the ornate arrangement of the coral boulders, this site hosts colorful puffer fish along with a swim-thru.

White Rock | 5-24m
Vast coral garden with granite boulders, divided into two distinct areas offering one of the largest sites around Koh Tao.

Three Rocks | 7-10m
A collection of several groupings of rocks, with three rising out of the water, this site offers a swim-thru and leopard sharks.

Southwest Pinnacle | 5-25m
Comprised of several pinnacles covered with sea anemones, large schools of fish and barracuda frequent this site.

Shark Island | 24m max
A diverse site, a large array of corals and fish inhabit this site, along with a resident turtle.

There are even more sites you can visit, but only if you visit us!!!

Fun Diving Prices

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