Phuket Thailands Perfect Quiet Tropical Holiday Destination Even in Patong

Many people come to Phuket Thailand each year for many different reasons. There is of course the awesome diving Phuket has to offer both in the Gulf of Thailand and the Andaman ocean. There is the similan islands which are by far the best islands in Thailand when it comes to scuba diving.

Then for those that dont dive and just want the best locations for snorkeling again the similans are without a doubt one of the best locations for snorkeling in phuket.  There are plenty of other locations too like James Bond island, Khai island, The phang nga national park, krabi and Phi Phi bamboo.  But the similan islands are by far the best phuket snorkel tour.

However many people prefer to get away from the crowds and want peace and quiet on their holidays. This is where Thailand Divers comes into its own. All the normal things to do in Phuket can be very easy to do as a private tour. Get away from the crowds, set your own departure time and return time so as to miss the crowds. Have the boat to yourself so if you will like a bit more time in one location and then a bit less in another then thats fine as its your tour.  No crowds, no cramped boats. no transfer delays while waiting for other people. Its your holiday, your choice of tours and your timetable.

Then even in the busiest to towns there are idyllic oasis of calm and tranquility. Great phuket hotels and comfortable phuket guest houses for you. Many hidden alcoves that most people just walk on by without ever seeing. There are plenty of Patong beach hotels that have 5* service at 3* prices if you know where to look. Thailand Divers after being here on the island for 15 years has had the time to locate these hidden gems for you. There is many a guest house phuket thats totally tucked away from the masses to offer that total peace and quiet refuge but still close to the beach and town center. Many a good Patong hotel is easily missed.  These amazing Phuket hotels and guest houses will be an ideal hideaway from which to have that perfect calm away from the crowds even in the hight of the season.

When it comes to the tropical island paradise that we all dream about then Similan Thailand is the ideal diving and snorkeling location all with in easy reach of the main island of Phuket. But remember there are also many other phuket islands to explore and if you just ask the right people the right questions then you will never be stuck in that mass tourist rat race ever again. Just ask yourself what is your ideal holiday?

I know what holiday I will prefer...Welcome to Thailand Divers Phuket. Welcome to paradise..

Phuket Thailand is the Best Place to do any PADI Diving Course.

The beautiful tropical island of Phuket Thailand is the ideal place to get a PADI diving license. Like so many people who go on holiday and joining a  PADI discover scuba diving Phuket has a massive advantage to so many other locations.  The locations make it so easy and confidence boosting that even the most timid people see  themselves as a budding Jaques Cousteau. There is a large number of people who when complete their PADI Discover Scuba Diving in Phuket then call the Phuket dive center while still on the boat to book their  Open water Course so they can learn to scuba dive Phuket and get certified. During the PADI Open Water course everything is new and so much to see and do. Then you still want more. You are now a real scuba diver and diving in new locations and seeing so many new things. However on the dive boat you are hearing stories from all the other people about diving here,  diving there, seeing all the great photos and videos,  diving "deep," diving this wreck or even finding something underwater and the struggle to bring it to the surface.  How do these people do all these great things that you are hearing about? But more importantly what are you interested in, what will you like or dislike, what will make a great dive for YOU ? Thailand Phuket can make it happen.

The next step for you is the  PADI Advanced Open water Phuket is a top location and it can be done directly after your open water or even as a combined Open water and Advanced course. Dont worry its not nearly as hard as your  PADI Open Water course when everything is new. The Advanced course is about self study and diving. This means you can even do it on a Similan island liveaboard. This is something to look in to when deciding what to do in Phuket. To complete the PADI Advanced course you must complete 5 chapters in the advanced manual then complete the five dives related to those chapters. What chapters you choose depend on the location you choose to do the course in. The Deep dive and Navigation are two that must be done but the other three are your choices. Like I say the location will dictate to some extent. For example in the far east or other tropical waters will rule out Dry Suit diving as will salt water locations will rule out altitude diving. There may be no wreck or night dive options either.

The two dives that have to be done are the Deep dive as the PADI Advanced Open Water license will allow you dive to thirty meters. Although this in itself is not a great challenge there are things to be aware of. The speed of you air consumption, your reduced no decompression time, less light and a few extra concerns on top of what you learned in the Open water Course. Scuba diving Phuket will give you the training and skills that you need to make you a really good scuba diver.

Navigation is the other one that must be done. As an Advanced diver you should really have an idea where you are and where you are going. This is as you learned already done with a compass. In the Open water course you you did a straight line out and back with a 180 degree turn. Now we are going to improve on this by navigating a square. We also will try to gauage distance by "fin Kicks" and time. We will also see how currents will effect this. 

The rest is up to you and your instructor.  There may be a good wreck near you. This will give you a taste of wreck diving. You will learn what to look out for and spot hazards. Also the get to see the great marine life that tends to gather round a wreck.

Do you want to learn how to take great underwater photos or video.  If you are thinking of doing one of the  Similan islands liveaboards then this will be a great things to think about. Where to place yourself in relation to the subject and the position of the sun. Is there much particals in the water and how to avoid getting them in your shot. How to get the color back in the photos so they are not just blue. How to control your breathing to get the camera still. There is so much more than just aim and fire.

Search and recovery will teach you the basics. You will learn which search pattens are best for various situations and locations. How to recover the item from the seabed. Do you need a lift bag and how you use one safely. You do not want the bag to drag you to the surface as well causing you injury. 

Are you interested in what you are looking at down there? The different types of fish and other creatures and their habitats. If so the Underwater Naturalist or Fish identification are for you.  Diving in Thailand has some amazing sights and things you will not see anywhere else. If your diving will be done from large boats or small boats then learn the different styles of diving from different types of boat. Do you use a dive computer or need help getting the most out of it. Then Multilevel and Computer diving. Improve your bouyancy, air consumption and general dive style along with  Correct weighting will all improve your diving.  Peak performance bouyancy is the one for you. 

Night diving may be an option if you are planning to do a Similan islands liveaboard trip.  Learn to navigate at night and the dangers to look out for. What different creatures are about and how to communicate as normal hand signals cant be seen. Not just the night diving but the Similans is one of the best places on the planet to do the advanced course. The diving is considered as one of the top ten location in the world. Any chance to go o the similan islands is worth every minute.

The other and best reason to do the  PADI Advanced course is it keeps you diving and introduces you to other areas of diving that may interest you. As you will now be able to dive to thirty meters it will open up other dive sites to you all over the world. After that who knows what you will discover or go on to. There are so many specialties  to choose from and you may have got your taste for it from your PADI Advanced course. 

Most Phuket dive shop will offer the advanced course as a 2 day course and with no pool and classroom sessions makes it a fun 2 days. if you are planning two  or more days diving then it will be worth while doing the  PADI advanced course is diving anyway and the price is roughly the same as three day trips. Going on a Similan liveboard ? Then why not do a couple of days diving first as a warm up and get your Advanced as you go. this will make the Phuket liveboard trip so much more enjoyable. Diving in Phuket Thailand the price is so cheap compared to other countries. Even better as the the course includes a big cooked breakfast,  Huge buffet lunch and afternoon tea along with all equipment, tea, coffee, drinking water and fresh fruit all day. On top of that they will pick you up from your hotel and return you to it at the end of the day.  There is nowhere better to take the PADI Advanced course as Phuket as its great diving at great prices ALL year round.

 

Thoughts From Phuket. Is Diving in Paradise All Its Cracked Up To Be??

Most people when they go on holiday look at the people who love and work in these amazing locations around the world and think what a great life they must have. Well lets take a look at Phuket Thailand and  those who spend their days diving Phuket or should I say in the Phuket scuba diving industry.

Yes dont get me wrong there are many great days with clear skies, warm blue waters and idyllic days on the ocean. Yes these are the great days. Yes this is the great life that everyone sees. But what many do not see is the  story here. In a typical dive shop Phuket has many the days start early. The first staff have to be in the office before the first pick up in the morning just incase someone oversleeps and misses the transfer bus. May be someone went out the evening before and had some "dodgy sea food" and they are not well. Nothing to do with the 20 tequilas in the nightclub and rolling in at 4am. But what ever the reason this is the job of the early morning shift in the office. Their days starts very early to up and in work as most are still getting their alarm call.

Then there are the instructors and dive guides. They are already at the pier waiting for you as you step bleary eyed into the morning sunshine. They now have the job of making sure all the customers who are still half asleep get on the right boats. No bags left on the buses and all the right equipment is where its ment to be.  Then breakfast and the fun bit of the day begins.  This is the bit that everyone on holiday sees. The fun stuff. To be fair it is fun.

But lets step back a bit. In this day and age very few people go on holiday without knowing where they are going or what to do when they are there. Most people will go online and look up for example scuba diving Phuket. This is the way they checked out the Thailand dive centers in advance and many will have booked online before even arriving in Thailand.  So then that also means you have people in the office as well designing websites, keeping up to dates with all the pricing, local divesites, whats available and whats closed at certain times of year. Making sure everything is up to date. Making sure that their dive center is easy to find online. Long gone are the days of large dive shops on the beach all aiming to get walk in trade. Very few people wake up in the morning and decide to learn to dive in Phuket on a whim. For all of these back office staff they get up and go and sit in an office all day just as millions of other people doe back in their countries.  Still an office in Phuket Thailand is still way better location for an office than most. You still get to walk on the beach and relax after work in a beach front bar. The saying a bad day in Phuket is still better than a good day in.......(add your own town here).

Then during the monsoon season we have the strong winds, rough seas, driving rain.  Now this is when the office staff have it good and the instructors have the bad deal. The instructors have to get to the pier in driving rain, then have rough seas, people being sea sick both above and below the surface. Then riding home again in the dark and still raining.  Now the good side to this is the office staff are inside, things are less hectic for them and its cooler. So far good and bad sides to both jobs just as in any other country doing any other job.

The big draw to Thailand Phuket in particular is the Similan islands national park. This is open for six months of the year from mid October till mid May. The Similan liveaboard season is peak diving time. This is great for the instructors as they get to spend days or weeks at a time diving in one of the top ten scuba diving locations in the world and get paid for doing it. This is also easy for the office staff too as most people book these trips to the Similans well in advance to be sure of getting the trips they want. As far as the dive centers all the work is done by e-mail long in advance so all the customer needs to do is pop in and pay any outstanding balance. many times not even this as many people will just pay online.  This leaves the dive center free for those people who want to learn to dive in Phuket as this can be done there and then most of the time. Again in the days of the internet many people already book in advance anyway.

Now back to the title of this blog. Thoughts from Phuket. Is it all its cracked up to be?? Well thats all up to you. Does the amazing diving for five months of the year make up for the other months?? Well most will say yes as there are many good days in low season too. Is working in an office in Phuket better than an office say in London,  New York,  Sydney or any other big city?? Again most will tell you yes. An office is an office but you still have the beach, the nightlife, the sea and the diving on your days off. So on the whole I guess that all the bad parts of working in Phuket Thailand are things that happen in every office or job anywhere but the plus points are far better than what you find other places. So whats your thoughts on working in Phuket Thailand. is diving in paradise all its cracked up to be ??

Dolphins Have Made Phuket Their Home Once Again.

Here in phuket thailand the last few years have seen the return of some wonderful creatures that used to be around all the time and had for some reason left the local waters. Whales, Manta Ray, Orca’s, Whale sharks are always in the news. However for those lucky enough to have been in phuket scuba diving 8-10 years ago will be aware that the numbers of Bottle nose Dolphins had almost vanished.  The boats when taking people scuba diving in phuket regularly had Dolphins escorting the boats until about 6 years ago when they suddenly vanished.

Unlike the popular book the Dolphins had not left the planet before its destruction but had just moved to a new location. The waters round James Bond Island to the north and Yao Yai became their home.  The problem was the amount of boat traffic. Trips to places like bamboo island and many other phuket snorkeling tours combined with the fishing boats both day and night had just become too much for them.  Out in thesimilan islands they were seen from time to time too but never with in easy sight of the people staying on phuket.

Then three years ago a small boat started to take people from phuket scuba diving to a small island called Maithon that all the boats used to pass on there way to other places but never stopped or went too close. The island was not too spectacular compared to other locations in the area but it had lots of shallow reef and was close  to phuket so was a good location for a 2 dive trip and for those learning scuba diving in phuket.

It soon became clear that the divers were not the biggest things in the water. On only the second trip we could hear the Dolphins and during lunch as we sat there with the engine off sure enough a couple of Dolphins came to investigate from a distance. Then day after day with just small numbers of divers on a small boat the Dolphins got used to us. we could hear them almost every dive and when we we on the boat they came closer and closer.  They were still too shy to come close to us underwater. They followed us as we can hear then but just out if sight. At this time we thought there was 12 – 15 of them in the pod.

The following year a pod of Orcas was seen in the similan islands and at the time I did not know this but Orcas are the biggest of the Dolphin family. They are called killer whales as they are a killer of whales and not because they are whales that kill. This pod was the first in many many years and one was even seen in the busiest bay on the island this year.

Patong bay which was full of jet ski, parasailing, long tails and many other craft in the middle of high season had a visit from a full grown Orca.

Back to the ever growing pod on Maithon. Now the numbers were growing and they were seen from Maithon to Koh Doc Mai. Then they followed the boats further and further and can be seen from Phuket all the way toPhi Phi. There area was getting larger and larger as the numbers were growing. During monsoon season as  is the case this year they return back to Maithon.

The way things look now id that they have made there home in the water off phuket thailand and are happy here. They are used to boats of people scuba diving in phuket passing them and slowing to look at them. They know the people in phuket scuba diving are no threat and they are as interested in us as we are in them. What is need now is the same trust to be built up by the other small boats as it will only take one aggressive speed boat driver to scare them off. Getting too close when there are young around and they will vanish again.

If these beautiful creatures are allowed to live in peace then their numbers will grow and their area will grow. It wont be long before they let us snorkel with them at places like bamboo island or james bond island.  Then if all the people who go to the similan islands on liveaboards each year need another reason. How cool will it be to dive with Manta’s and whale sharks then have a quick snorkel with Dolphins too all in the same day.phuket scuba diving is some of the best in the world and also offers amazing phuket snorkeling tours too.phuket thailand really does have it all and it just must be cared for as an island paradise can so easily be lost.

When in phuket scuba diving lessons may change your life.

When in phuket scuba diving lessons 

may change your life.

              For many people who have never been diving or even given it a thought, will at some point in their life either as a child or as a dream as an adult will have thought of finding pirate treasure. The down side to this is two thirds of the planet is underwater. Pirates never buried treasure on desert islands or marked the spot with an X. They took the gold and spent it on having a good time until the money ran out and went pirating again. All the big money was on board huge treasure ships that were transporting gold to and from new lands back to Europe or to pay armies fighting over the new lands. Many of these ships were sunk in storms after being blown onto rocks an reefs. Rocks and reefs are in shallow water. If the rocks and reefs were in deep water they will be no threat to ships. The up shot to this is most of the ships were wrecked in shallow water within easy reach of the average recreational diver. 

 

            Next time you are in phuket thailand why not give it a go. Its a perfect place to learn. Warm tropical water, loads of reefs and variety of fish. When in phuket scuba diving is a must. You may just get hooked and you never know what may happen.....

             It is three hundred years since a fleet of Spanish galleons, loaded with New World gold, set sail from Havana under the careful watch of British spies. They never arrived. A vicious storm sent 11 treasure ships to the floor of the Atlantic off Florida. Now though they are giving up their booty.

     The Schmitt family - Rick and Lisa and their two children and daughter-in-law - who scour the seas for treasure from their salvage vessel Aarrr Booty, found 51 gold coins and 40 feet of ornate gold chain.

The pick of the finds, according to Brent Brisben, whose company 1715 Fleet – Queens Jewels owns salvage rights to the wreckage, is a rare coin known as a “royal” made for King Phillip V and dated 1715.

    Only six others are known to exist and it could be worth $500,000 alone. Eric Schmitt, 27,  made the find last month in 15 feet of water while diving using a metal detector. Their discovery was announced to coincide with the anniversary of the disaster in July 1715 when all but one of the ships foundered.

      They had left Havana under the careful eye of British spies who dotted the Caribbean. They believed the cargo included a priceless dowry of jewels for King Phillip V to give to his new bride. The ships were crammed with the king's tribute, including gold chains which were used as a tax-free currency. The War of Succession meant there had been no sailings for the preceding two years. “By late advices from Havana I am told the Galleons from Vera Cruz were daily expected there in order to join the Spanish Ships of War, one of which was the Hampton Court, who are said to have great treasure on board for Old Spain,” said a dispatch from Lord Archibald Hamilton, the Governor of Jamaica, referencing a British war ship captured by the Spanish.  But within days the fleet was in trouble, pummelled by storms that gusted at 100 knots, pushing the ships westwards and on to rocks.  

The convoy's manifests showed its cargo of gold and jewels would today be worth about $400 million, of which $175 million has so far been recovered, according to Mr Brisben. The wreckage was first discovered in the 1960s but stormy seas limit treasure hunters to only a few weeks each year.

          The laws vary from country to country and wreck to wreck as to who the treasure belongs to. In this case it was split was 20% to the Florida musem and the rest split between the finders and the financiers who bought the rights to the wreck. So a very nice little earner. 

         This is just one of many. Off Cornwall in England in 2007 another wreck was found in a few meters of water in a bay of a popular holiday resort. The wreck had an estimated  US $500 million on board. 17 tonnes of coin has been recovered. How many holiday makers were swimming, surfing and fishing on top of all that gold and silver with no idea it was there. If they had learned to scuba dive they just may have found it. 

          Next time you are on your holiday, take a look at phuket thailand. The location, price and conditions are perfect for learning to dive. The dive centers offer great prices and even if you dont discover several tonnes of gold you will discover a whole new world. Every dive you do after that you will discover something new as long as you keep your eyes open. You can always when diving in phuket do a search and recovery course to teach you how to recover things off the sea bed just in case. Next time you want to change your life come to phuket scuba diving. its just may change you life forever.

A Typical Day in Phuket Scuba Diving

A Typical Day in Phuket Scuba Diving .

A typical Day in Phuket Scuba diving is quite Early starts What Some May Think, Thirty Seven AM. The dive center will pick you up from your hotel lobby in either an air conditioned mini bus or other style of car or van. Takes the Drive Around 20 - 30 minutes Through the countryside and Other Beach Resorts As You cross the Island of Phuket Thailand . 

A great day for diving in phuket.

Once at the Pier You Find that at First glance it looks like Chaos As there are dozens of Boats and Dive companies, speed Boat Tours and Fishing Boats all over the Place. How Ever it is Really well Organized. As the Bus stops You are met. by the Tour Leader Who has your name and then over to your instructor Hands You Waiting for You Who is there. The Pier in Chalong Quit is a long one so they have several "Pink busses" to take You. to the End where there are Again a Dozen or so Dive Boats tied up. The instructor Waits for everyone to Get Together then Takes You to the Boat. As now we are in Thailand and ITS Rude to Wear shoes in the House they are Boxes to. . Put your shoes in before stepping onto the Boat. Make sure You Put your shoes in the right box or your shoes Will Go to a different Place to You.

phuket scuba diving is a comfortable day.

The Dive Boats themselves Vary in Size and Comfort. My Boats was Nice and Big with Plenty of Space Inside if Needed and a Large shaded Area upstairs with Tea, Coffee, drinking Water and Chocolate. Here we have a Boat briefing by the Tour Leader which. Takes About 5 minutes or so. The Boat has 3 toilets and showers I. AM on to rinse off at the End of the Day plus another 2 More showers to rinse off after Platform on the Dive the Dive. There are bins for Fresh Water Cameras. and another one for other equipment. There is a large sun deck on the top deck. While this is going on my instructor is setting up my equipment for me which was a very nice touch. As the briefing Ends My instructor joins our Group As Guides US round to the Front of the Boat where there is another SET of steps that take US to the Front of the cabin where the breakfast is served. By going to the Front ment we were at. the Front of the line while everyone was trying to Else Climb down the Back Stairs. The breakfast was Great. Eggs, saucages, toast, tomatoes, croissants, fried rice and a chicken rice soup, fruit and fruit juice. Better than many small hotels. Now time for a snooze to let the food go down. 

phuket scuba diving gets you to great locations.

phuket thailand has awesome dive sites

About 30 minutes from our first dive site we are awoken by our instructor and told to get a drink before he does our dive briefing. We get a very good briefing telling us not only background to the site, what we will see, what to look out for and what to be aware of. We are given a full safety briefing and what to do if we get separated. Now another drink. Its funny but as the water we are diving in is so warm 29 - 30 degrees we still sweat underwater so we have to be careful not to get dehydrated. Now down to the dive deck to get kitted up. The divers are split into 2 groups to give everyone space when getting ready. We are in group 1. All the gear is already set up on the tanks in a numbered place on the boat. We sit down and put on the BCD at while we do this the boat crew actually help us with our fins and other bits and pieces and then buddy check. We stay seated till the boat arrives and stops. When in the correct position the Captain sounds a horn and we all get up and move to the back of the boat. When the group is all together with our instructor we get in the water. our instructor gets in first and waits at the back of the boat to make sure we are all ok as we get in. Then move away from the boat when all are ready and in a close group the instructor gives us the sign and down we go. . . .

phuket diving offers some great sights

When diving in Phuket there are several locations that are in easy reach. Today we are diving at Phi Phi and Shark point. The first location is a small island to the south of the main islands. This is a very nice easy dive with huge shoals of yellow snappers everywhere. There is plenty of healthy soft coral, big sea fans and color everywhere. We follow a long ridge covered in coral and life.The instructor leads and points out so much as we go you can tell he dives here several times aweek and loves to dive. As we go he checks our air from time to time. By the time we get down one side of the ridge and back up the other its been around 35 minutes.                                                                                       

diving in phuket can get exciting.

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 Now we are on a flat rocky area at only around 5 meters in depth. Our instructor just stops and hangs around. I am a bit confused as we all have plenty of air left. He just stays still looking all round us. Then suddenly points and there are 3 black tip sharks heading straight at us. They pass with in only a couple of meters of us. as we look there are more and more of them. We just hang around there drifting with the sharks and taking photos. What a Great Dive and What an instructor. He Knew exactly where to Find everything and He Knew the sharks Will be there and just waited for them. This Will be a Great Day.

phuket scuba diving offers some unusual sights.

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Diving in Phuket Thailand is Something Special. Its not just the diving but the boat seem to be competing with the food quality. The chefs on the Boat are better than Most Hotels and resturants on the Island. We had a Choice of 4 different dishes plus Soup and Veg. One being a Great SPAG bol. Lunch was in a Setting that Can not be Beaten. Most people know. it or Maya Bay As "The Beach" the Location of the Hollywood movie. This trip so far is worth three times what I paid. After lunch and a suitable time to let another great meal go down we left maya bay and 10 minutes further on we can to a locationknown as Turtle rock set under the huge cliffs if Phi Phi Ley. 

I do not have to Say Too much About this Dive As the name Turtle Rock says it all. Yes Turtles and More Black Tip sharks on top of so many Other Colorful Tropical Fish and Again our instructor managed to Point out so much and helped US in. . positioning ourselves to get great photos with the turtles. After another great 50 minute dive it was back to the boat for an hour and a half ride to Shark Point. Time to top up the tan on the sun deck. Again 20 minutes out a Wake up Call from the instructor for a Dice briefing. This briefing includes How to Get close to the Leopard Shark without spooking it (US spooking it? What About spooking it me?) So we Can Get photos with them. Now I Can not Say How Exciting this is As I know How Great the First. 2 Dives were and this sounds like it Will be better. However we are told this is not a Zoo Wild Nothing is so certain and like all animals Can they be unpredictable. Shark Point is a very Colorful Dive Site. So much coral, big sea fans, anemone's and life.

 We got to see Tiger Tail Sea Horses as well as so much more. Rounding one rocky out crop on the sand we came face to face with the Leopard Shark. Its was resting on the sand. We stayed a good distance away then made our way to its front so he can see us so not to spook it. We sat back and watched the instructor. He can in very low to the floor directly in front of the shark, folded his arms and crept forward till he was no more than 2 foot from it and they just looked at each other. Then just back away without flapping arms or stirring up the bottom. We all moved in one at a time and waited for the other person to move off before going in. How amazing to be no more than a couple of feet away from a big shark. We stayed and watched as another group came. This time they saw the shark and all swam straight at it from all sides and above it. The shark took one look and swam away. This other group had not been briefed by the instructor so did not get the experience we did. 

Wn back on the boat we packed the equipment away and had a nice hot shower. The chef had been busy again and there were pancakes with Banana, Mango and with honey or chocolate sauce and fresh fruit. this was eaten up on the Sun Deck where we looked at each others photos (and compared Ours to the Other Group Who scared the Leopard Shark Away). Ours were so much better and that was Totally down to our Instructors in depth briefings and instructing US. How to Move to the positions and How to Best Dive with these creatures. When diving in Phuket there are many different Some are a few companies but for the sake of a Baht Cheaper $$ Couple of the Experience Will be un comparable. You are in Phuket Thailand and As I said before I had for a Holiday Experience What I paid was worth the Three times. Phuket Scuba diving is Something Special. There may be better boats or better dive sites around the world but for the whole trip I can not see how it can be improved and for such a small price. 4,200 bht for the whole day and wait till you see the photos of the sunset as we came home. Most people can only dream of seeing things like this. 

phuket scuba diving will get you views you will remember for life.

phukethailand is a holiday to remember