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Keep Your Skills Up To Date With A Diving Refresher
Keep Up To Date With Refresher For Your Diving SkillsA diving refresher or a PADI Reactivate programme is something all divers should consider if they haven’t had the opportunity to dive for extended periods. We’re not all fortunate enough to be able to dive when and where we want. Logistics, finances, health can all make getting a dive in a bit of a struggle. The recent pandemic kept the majority of divers away from the hobby they love for years. Diving refreshers were in high deman...
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Crown of Thorns Starfish
The crown of thorns starfish is beautiful to look at but definitely don’t touchFortunately Phuket hasn’t got a huge population of crown of thorns starfish. They’re strange appearance and beautiful colours make them great to look at but high numbers can cause immense damage. Their diet of healthy corals and venomous spines don’t place them high on the welcome visitors list which is incredibly unfair. The venomous spines is all on them but destroying coral reefs? Place Your...
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Blacktip Reef Sharks
Blacktip Reef Sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus)Blacktip reef sharks are a very frequent sighting on our Phi Phi diving tour, often with many sharks in your field of vision. We get all different sizes from the almost 2m adult females to the tiny pups. We generally schedule Koh Bida Nok for our first dive on the trip so blacktip reef sharks are one of the first animals you’ll see. A great start to your days diving. They’re not a guaranteed sighting by any means but it’s very unu...
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Cressi A1 No Fog Diving Mask
The No Fog Diving Mask That Actually WorksThere’s nothing worse in diving than a foggy mask, well maybe running out of air, triggerfish, getting stung, putting on a cold wet wetsuit, DCS etc. After all we go diving to look at and explore the incredibly beautiful underwater world. Not many masks come out of the box completely fog free but the Cressi A1 does. You don’t have to treat the mask at all. If you do, you may well damage the coating. Not only is it a no fog diving mask but it&...
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The Best Phuket Diving Package
A Great Phuket Diving Package With Local Dive ThailandOur 3 day Phuket diving package will cover all of the best local dive sites. The 3 different dive days all have their own unique qualities and offer divers a range of different dive environments. From the clear, calm waters of Racha Noi to the more challenging King Cruiser Wreck, there’s something for everyone. Consecutive Days? No the Phuket diving package doesn’t have to be on consecutive days. It’s not recommended that be...
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Dive Computer Settings
Get Your Dive Computer Settings Right!Getting your dive computer settings right may sound obvious but on a few occasions we’ve had to stop guests from diving. We really, really don’t like to do this but if during or after a dive your dive computer goes into error mode then we have no choice. It’s simply not safe. On most of the rare occasions that this has happened, it’s a simple matter of guests having their dive computer set up incorrectly. We often get asked by guests ...
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Will Scuba Diving Hurt My Ears?
Pressure Will Affect Your Ears When Scuba DivingWill scuba diving hurt my ears? is a question we frequently get asked. Anybody who’s tried diving down when snorkeling will have felt the effect of pressure on their ears. So it’s natural to assume it will only get worse when going deeper. That assumption would be 100% correct so that’s why you’re taught simple techniques to prevent pain or damage as part of the PADI Open Water Course. The techniques will quickly become habi...
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How to Treat Jellyfish And Coral Stings
Advice On How To Treat Jellyfish and Coral StingsJellyfish and coral stings are not a frequent occurrence in Phuket. The few cases we get are mild, only requiring some basic first aid immediately after the incident. Occasionally around the coast line, we sight box jellyfish and in low season we often have bluebottles wash up on the shore. However it’s incredibly rare to see either around our main Phuket dive sites. Still, the environment we choose to spend our spare time in is not risk fre...
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What Is A PADI Master Scuba Diver
Sounds Awesome but what is a PADI Master Scuba Diver?A PADI Master Scuba Diver is certainly someone who takes their diving seriously. To achieve this awesome sounding certification you have to put in a lot of time and effort and show exemplary dive skills. You’ll need five PADI specialties to begin. There’s a lot specialties to choose from and your selection will depend on your location and your favoured dive environments. For most we would suggest that Enriched Air Nitrox and Deep a...
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Ornate Ghost Pipefish
Where Do Ornate Ghost Pipefish Come From?Ornate Ghost pipefish seemingly appear from nowhere. After months of no sightings they suddenly show up, some years it’s just a few and some years it seems every crinoid has a pair. They spend the first part of their life as plankton, drifting along in ocean currents until the time is right to settle on one of our many reefs. How long they travel the ocean currents is not known but unlikely to be long. They disappear just as quickly as the appeared ...
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What Is The Best Dive Site In The Similan Islands?
Best Dive Site In The Similan IslandsThe Similan and Surin Islands offer many great dive sites and we’re fortunate to have dived at a vast majority of them. The best dive site in the Similan Islands is obviously very subjective but below is our top five and why. The liveaboard route around the Similan Island National Park will also include a fair percentage of dives inside the Surin Islands National Park so we have to include them. #5 – North Point So called because it’s the fu...
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Diving From Liveaboards Banned In The Similan Islands
Diving Directly From Liveaboards Has Been Banned in the Similan IslandsIf you’re not a fan of diving from dinghies then we have some bad news for you. Diving directly from your liveaboards has now been banned. It’s a move that is supposed to protect corals and marine life, personally I’ve never seen a liveaboard in the Similan Islands National Park go near a reef. Liveaboards will have to keep their distance from the dive site or use official mooring lines. The other reason tou...
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How Much Does Scuba Diving In Thailand Cost
The Cost of scuba diving in Thailand has many variablesThe cost of scuba diving in Thailand will vary depending on location, type of dive centre and in some respects yourself. Phuket probably offers the best all round diving in Thailand but it’s also amongst the most expensive. It’s not simply that we think you should pay more for better diving, simply down to logistics. Apart from a few really nice beach dives, most of our recognised dive sites are over an hour journey from port. Yo...
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