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Phuket Diving Courses and Diving Trips

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Phuket Diving Courses and Trips is the best location for those seeking reefs, coral gardens, and dramatic drop-offs without travelling around Southern Thailand.

Diving around Phuket offers everything from extensive fringing reefs to dramatic drop-offs, granite walls, wreck dives, caves, and coral gardens. Diving around Phuket is a paradise for scuba divers of all levels.

Phuket Diving Courses and Diving Trips offer SSI certification courses from beginner to professional: Open Water, Advanced, Discovery, and Referral courses.

Scuba diving accommodations

If you’re looking to combine diving with a holiday, Phuket is the ideal place to book diving courses and diving trips. We offer accommodation at the Palm Garden Resort in Phuket for 2400 THB a night, a room with a terrace. Ask for more information.

When is the best time for scuba diving in Phuket?

Phuket is an all-year destination for scuba divers. No matter the time of the year there is always some good diving to be enjoyed. However, the main diving season here is similar to the main tourist season in Thailand.

Usually, the best conditions for diving around Phuket are from November to April.

This is the time of the year when there is the least chance of rain and storms. The sea is mostly flat, the sun is shining and the water is a beautiful blue.

For onward travel around Southern Thailand to Koh Tao, Koh Samui, Khao Lak, and Koh Lanta, we can organise additional diving trips with our other dive centre partners.

IMPORTANT! – Flying After Diving

When planning onward travel from Phuket, please note that SSI and PADI recommends a minimum interval of 18 hours after making multiple dives.

Let your diving adventures begin: Phuket Diving Courses and Diving Trips

Phuket Diving Courses and Diving Trips

Try Scuba Diving, Phuket

Never Dived before? New to diving? No problem!

Try scuba diving in the sea under full supervision of a dive leader.

“Try Scuba” is the perfect way for new divers to get into the sport. Here, you can practice the basics in our pool or open water under full supervision of a dive leader with the shortest amount of instruction and classroom time.

The theory session focuses on the immediate needs of divers such as equipment adjustment, equalising pressure, breathing, moving through the water and orientation underwater.

The course also gives you a working knowledge of essential scuba equipment. Here, you’ll receive an introduction on how to handle everything you need to dive safely.

Try Scuba Dive from 5,900 THB

What is included in this offer?

  • Items that are included in the price
  • Transfer from your hotel in Kamala, Patong, Karon, Kata, Nai Harn, Rawai, Chalong
  • 2 dives from the boat
  • Instructor
  • Fresh fruits and snacks
  • Water, tea, coffee
  • Dive equipment

What is excluded in this offer?

  • Items that are not included in the price
  • Transfers from Hotels outside Kamala, Patong, Karon, Kata, Nai Harn, Rawai, Chalong
  • Additional dives on days with 3 or 4 dives
  • Soft drinks and alcoholic drinks (can be purchased on board)
  • Phi Phi Islands Marine Park Fee per day/person (subject to change):
  • Diver: Baht 600
  • Non-diver: Baht 400
SSI Scuba-Diver Course, Phuket

This Scuba Diver Course is designed for people with limited time

If you’re looking to dive during your vacation, getting your SSI certificate earns you a passport to undersea adventure in just a few lessons. Limited with time? This is a great way to start!

The Scuba Diver Program takes your dive training to a new level of convenience and accessibility. An essential for first-time divers, you’ll focus on mastering the knowledge and skills required to dive proficiently while under the direct supervision of a dive leader.

Completing the Try Scuba program, gives you credit for your academic session and Pool/Confined Water Session 1 and Open Water Session 1.

Completing the Scuba Diver Program allows you to apply your academic sessions, pool/confined water sessions and open water sessions towards the Open Water Diver certification.Minimum Age: 10 years.

Course is run every Wednesday and Sunday

Open Water Diver from 12,000 THB

What is included in this offer?

  • Items that are included in the price
  • all dives from the boat
  • instructor, rental equipment
  • breakfast, lunch, fruit, (dinner on Sunday)
  • coffee, tea, water, softdrinks
  • transfers from and to the hotel on Kamala, Patong, Karon, Kata, Nai Harn, Rawai, Chalong
  • Minimum age: 10 Years.

What is excluded in this offer?

  • Items that are not included in the price
  • Not included are National park fees where they apply as well as transfers from locations other than mentioned above.
  • Phi Phi Islands Marine Park Fee per day/person (subject to change): Diver: Baht 600,- / Non-diver: Baht 400,-
SSI Open Water Diver Course, Phuket

Learn to scuba dive and gain a worldwide recognised certification in just 3 days. With theory lessons, pool exercises in our unique 3m deep training pool and open water dives in the sea, join the ranks of one of the most popular recreational activities.

Start here and dive the world! SSI’s Personalised Training Approach is designed to make you a serious diver in a way that makes you feel comfortable and addresses your needs. Under the guidance of a professional SSI Instructor, you will develop the knowledge and skills necessary to enjoy a lifetime of underwater exploration.

This course can be completed in just three days. At the end you will be awarded the worldwide recognized Open Water Diver certification, allowing you to dive independently to a depth of 18 metres.

SSI’s modular, six-session teaching system includes a video, manual, study guide, dive-log and dive tables.

With SSI’s home study approach, you can minimise your time in the classroom, allowing for more time in the water.

In multiple pool and open water sessions, you’ll learn the following key skills:

  • Moving through water with ease
  • Breathing normally underwater
  • Controlling buoyancy so you maintain a fixed depth in the water
  • The easiest ways to enter and exit the water
  • Getting water out of your mask, and mask clearing

Once the course is complete, you’ll be confident and comfortable in the water and ready to begin your new favourite hobby.

Minimum age: 10 Years.

Open Water Diver from 17,400 THB

What is included in this offer?

  • Items that are included in the price
  • 4 dives from the boat, instructor
  • certification
  • all diving equipment
  • meals on the boat (breakfast, lunch, fruit, coffee, tea, drinking water (water dispenser))
  • Transfers from Kamala, Patong, Karon, Kata, Nai Harn, Rawai, Chalong

What is excluded in this offer?

  • Items that are not included in the price
  • Transfers from Hotels outside Kamala, Patong, Karon, Kata, Nai Harn, Rawai, Chalong
  • Phi Phi Islands Marine Park Fee per day/person (subject to change): Diver: 600 Baht / Non-diver: 400 Baht
Diving Trips, Phuket

The scuba daytrips are for certified divers only! If you don’t have a valid scuba diving license you can join one of the Discover Scuba Diving trips!

Prices starting from 4,200 THB.

For non-divers:

Adult Snorkeling: 3,200 THB
Child snorkeling (7 years to 12 years): 1,700 THB
Snorkeling can be done every day except Tuesday and Wednesday.

Dive boats:

MC Stingray – Custom Dive Catamaran

Our freshly rennovated dive boat in Khao Lak the ‘MC Stingray’ is a beautiful and spacious custom built Catamaran made for divers. The Stingray is a platform boat that is reached via our Speedboat in less than 2 hours.
The boat guarantees stability in the water and boasts a spacious dive deck with indoor showers. Breakfast and lunch is freshly prepared by our on board kitchen.
A complete First Aid kit and oxygen unit are available on board, making this the perfect dive vessel for all scuba divers.

MV Runaway

The “MV Runaway” provides a more intimate dive experience with small dive numbers and, together with its great wood decor, makes “getting wrecked” a great experience.
The “MV Runaway” is an elegant teak wood boat; 17m long and powered by a 350HP engine. Features include parquet flooring, an exclusive downstairs salon and a comfortable covered sundeck. We also serve delicious snacks and fruit all day.
The “MV Runaway” takes small groups (up to a maximum of 12), ensuring maximum personal attention during your time with us.
The “MV Runaway” is equipped with the latest navigation and electronic boat handling devices. She also has a medical first aid station complete with oxygen supply.
We’re always in touch with the Sea Bees dive centre at Khao Lak and are therefore ready for anything, especially calls revolving around visiting marine life!

Scuba Diving Sites in Phuket

Anemone Reef

Anemone Reef is a completely submerged, single, craggy rock covered in anemones and colourful soft corals. All kinds of tropical fish can be observed, as well as graceful leopard sharks and beautiful schools of lionfish.

Hin Daeng Hin Muang

Hin Daeng Hin Muang Max. depth: 60 m. Hin Daeng—Pearl of the South—the highlights of our dive sites with the MV Aragon are, of course, Hin Daeng and Hin Muang.

Soft coral covers Hin Daeng, which offers an incredible variety of marine life at depths that exceed the normal limit. This is surely an unforgettable dive site for each diver.

Hin Muang—also called the “purple rock”—is” not far away from Hin Daeng and shows also a vast variety of soft coral and anemone… a diving adventure of the finest. Both dive sites are excellent spots for grey reef sharks, manta rays, and whale shark sightings.

King Cruiser

King Cruiser Max. Depth: 30 m. This fantastic shipwreck, which sank on the 4th of May 1997, is located close to Anemone Reef. The wreck contains a huge car deck, a middle deck with salons and dining rooms, and a sun deck with a fascinating captain’s cabin. Lots of small fish, such as lionfish, cuttlefish, and crabs, have already made their home in the wreck. Barracudas and other hunters are also common.

Phi Phi Island

Phi Phi Island’s maximum depth is 40 m. Phi Phi Island is a group of impressive limestone islands. A number of caves can be explored, as well as a wealth of underwater life, including lionfish, scorpionfish, and a kaleidoscope of tough and soft corals. We will conduct two of our four “Super Sunday” dives at these islands. An additional third dive is at Shark Point, and the fourth, a night dive, goes to Koh Doc Mai—an impressive coral-covered rock between Shark Point and Phuket.

Racha Noi

Racha Noi Max. Depth: 40 m. The island has excellent dive sites for experienced divers as well as shallow bays for beginners. Shark Point Shark Point is one of Phuket’s best dive sites. Here you’ll find a marine sanctuary of three reefs covered densely in anemones, soft corals, sponges, and gorgonian fans. You often see leopard sharks resting on the sand. Sea snakes, giant barracudas, and trevally are also common, along with an impressive number of moray eels. It is impossible to describe the variety of sea life in a few simple words.

Racha Yai

Racha Yai Max. Depth: 28 m. Racha Yai (the large Racha Island) is a tropical island that is almost untouched by civilisation. Amongst a healthy selection of firm and soft coral are many feather stars, pufferfish, and lionfish. You can see beautiful hard and soft corals and a magnificent variety of tropical fish at all the dive sites. In the deeper sandy areas you’ll discover garden eels and blue-spotted rays. You can occasionally spot leopard sharks here as well. The reefs here, with a maximum depth of 30 meters, are excellent for divers and snorkelers alike.

Shark Point

Shark Point is one of Phuket’s best dive sites. Here you’ll find a marine sanctuary of three reefs covered densely in anemones, soft corals, sponges, and gorgonian fans. Leopard sharks are often seen resting on the sand. Sea snakes, giant barracudas, and trevally are also common, along with an impressive number of moray eels. It is impossible to describe the variety of sea life in a few simple words.

For more information, daily dive tours and itineraries contact us directly.