Once you complete your PADI Open Water Diving course, there are many more skills to learn and new types of diving to try out! The top dive courses are summarised below to give you a starting point at where to begin. These are specialty courses designed to give you as a diver more experience and a specific field or type
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[singlepic id=385 w=320 h=240 float=left]“I want to go deep. I want to go deep inside of a ship wreck, and I want to do it all on Nitrox.” This sums up the attitude that Tobbe Lundell and Linda Wessen took upon returning to Koh Tao. On their first visit to the island, they were initially apprehensive about diving and eased
Read more →Last week, weI conducted a Wreck Diver Specialty Course in Koh Tao, with two divers – Anders and Nic. We had an amazing time! We started the course by reviewing and discussing the first half of the knowledge reviews. Luckily for us, we started our course on a Wednesday. Wednesdays at Sairee Cottage are also known as Wreck Wednesdays, which means that we spent the afternoon diving the two wrecks located in Koh Tao – the MV Trident and the HMS Sattakut 742.
Read more →Rescue Diver Courses at Sairee Cottage Diving Koh Tao [singlepic id=268 w=320 h=240 float=left]Complete one of the most challenging and satisfying courses Recreational diving has to offer and become a Rescue Diver!!! Completing the rescue course can be one of the most rewarding achievements in the diving adventure. Ask most dive professionals and they will tell you the exact same
Read more →Sail Rock (Hin Bia) is one of the best dive sites in the Gulf of Thailand. Located 2 hours boat trip south of
Koh Tao. Sail Rock starts as a rock protruding from the surface and then stretches out underwater ending at a depth of 40m in the deepest parts. Sail Rock is like as oasis in the open water with many schools of small fish attracting the medium sized fish to school and in turn bringing in the large predatory fish.
Okay, let’s talk about something that affects me on a fairly regular basis. I understand that this topic does not affect everyone; however, it certainly can raise my ire. It doesn’t help that I am outnumbered out here in paradise. (Poor me, if this is the worst thing that I have to deal with, then I know I am doing
Read more →[singlepic id=253 w=320 h=240 float=left] This week the team joined the technical diving instructors at Bans Tec, to try different technical diving methods in a swimming pool, such as back mounted twin tanks, side mount and caving techniques. The traditional back mount system is two tanks worn on the back with independent regulators on each tank. The sidemount system involves
Read more →What is Nitrox? Nitrox is the name commonly given to a breathing gas called Enriched Air Nitrox. By using Nitrox a diver can dive for longer without exceeding their no decompression limits, but what is it and how can you get to use it? [singlepic id=155 w=320 h=240 float=left]Any mixture of oxygen and nitrogen is actually Nitrox, air could be
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