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Pattaya
Scuba Diving
 Thailand
Scuba Diving. Dive Courses, Day Trips and Liveaboards
in Pattaya.
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to Dive with Barcode Scuba.
Barcode Scuba in Pattaya,
Thailand offers a full range of PADI, PERT, InDepth, SDI and PSAI
courses in Bangkok, Pattaya, Phuket, Koh Tao, Koh Samui and Koh Chang,
from basic level right up to Instructor level. We offer Technical
and Professional training with different diving agencies, such as
PSAI, IANTD, TDI, CMAS and BSAC. If you chose Professional diving
career, we offer 6 month Diving Internship Programs. Imagine living
in Thailand for 6 month and achieve highest ranking of PADI Instructor
with no previous diving experience! For those who love spearfishing,
we teach new PSAI underwater Hunter and Collector Specialty Course.
Dive
trips in Pattaya. Wreck and coral diving every day.
Dive Sites. The main scuba diving areas around Pattaya are located
in what we call the "Far Islands".
These are the second ring of islands about 20 - 30 kilometers from
Pattaya. The islands are controlled by the Thai Navy, and no permanent
structures are built there (boat trafficis also at a minimum). These
islands include Koh Rin, Koh ManWichai, Koh Keung Badaan, Koh Hu Chang
and Kho Phi. Altogether, we have up to 20 different dive sites with
visibility ranging from 5 - 15 meters. There are many different types
of soft and hard corals, and large schools of Jacks, Barracuda and
Tuna. Blue spotted Stingrays, Turtles, Porcupine Puffer fish and Moray
Eels can be spotted on virtually every dive.
The highlight of Pattaya and Samae San diving is the two, superb shipwrecks.
The HTMS Khram is a new wreck that was recently sunk by the Thai Navy
for divers! The Hardeep is a 60 meter long cargo ship sunk in 28 meters
during the World War II era. This ship is reasonably intact, and can
be navigated from bow to stern entirely on the inside, by our dive
leaders. Please contact us for more information.
Dive
Thailand! Liveaboard Trips and Diving Safari.
Similan Liveaboard, Surin Islands Liveaboard. Trips to Burma.
We conduct liveaboard dive adventures to Similan Islands and Surin
National Park.
Similan Islands are quoted to be one of the world's
top ten best diving destinations. The highlights of diving the Similans
are undoubtedly the Manta Rays and Whale Sharks.
Surin National Park features best coral reefs and
large reef fish. The most popular site for divers is the famous Richelieu
Rock - a great place for diving with Manta Rays, Whale Sharks and
large schools of Barracuda.
Night
Diving
If you want to see a different
underwater world then arrange a dive on any of these trips. The marine
life seems to multiply by 10 with everything that you tried to view
under rock coming out to feed just after sunset.
Experience a different kind of wreck dive when the sun goes down.
To describe it in one word would be 'Eerie'! Then all those entry
and exit points seem to disapear in your knowledge of your last dive
and you find yourself diving on a completly different wreck - but
it's the same one!
Drift
Diving
Drift dives can happen on any dive! If the
current is to strong, to dangerous or just to much like hard work
to enjoy the planned dive, then a decision might be reached by all
the Dive Instructors to abort and go Drift Diving instead. There's
nothing like doing nothing and seeing everything and your air will
last twice as long because your not doing anything!!! - When your
ready to come up the boat will be waiting to pick you up. You can
even take the 'Big Buoy' in with you and hang on - the boat will follow
your buoy!!! Phone and ask the staff if there a Drift Dive the next
day. They should be able to tell you the possibility of one and the
day it's on - our Instructors have been diving these waters for years!
wreck
Diving
Entering the wreck takes training and self control
when confined to a small space. With the PADI Wreck specialty under
your belt you can safely search any wreck charted or uncharted and
use the skilled learnt to better your dive  and
inevitably better your diving fun.
The Hardeep is excellent for training as the light penetration throughout
the wreck is good and gives the un-experienced, rusty or non-wreck
diver the opportunity to examine the world of wreck diving.
The HTMS Khram goes one step further with tight, dark penetration
but with easy access to the deck and watch tower for beginners.
Finally, The Petchburi Bremen lies nearly vertical and goes all the
way down to 40 meters giving the opportunity for experienced divers
to test themselves to their own limits.
You don't have to have the PADI Wreck Specialty to dive on a ship
wreck! But you will be limited to viewing from the outside - just
like our buddy here is doing - It's just as much fun and I'm sure
if you pair up with any of our PADI Instructors/Dive Buddies they'll
still be able to take you to the more interesting parts of our wrecks.
Deep Diving
Deep Diving and the definition of deep diving could mean different
depths depending on the qualifications one has i.e recreational diving
says 18 meters to 40 meters is considered a deep dive and any deeper
then it is said to go past recreational diving and into the technical
side of diving.
As well as providing Tec/Rec courses we also provide the Deep Diver
Specialty for recreational diving. Tec/Rec is covered in more detail
in the Technical Diving section.
If you already have the Deep Diver Specialty and you wish to do a
Deep Dive then our Instructors will advise on how you can combine
your needs with either the Mermaid's I or Mermaids II boat with or
without the need to charter your own boat. Please phone the number
below to find out.
Wall diving
Wall diving brings it's own surprises and allows you to see all the
different types of coral and Marine life live at the different levels
of depth which is great for the AWARE Fish Identification Specialty.
It also makes the safety stop a bit more interesting which normally
bring the clown fish (below) out to play since at 5 meters this is
now their habitat.
Wall diving can normally be done with our daily coral trips although
there are a few places that a must if you really must do this dive.
Call the office and we'll see if we can persuade the captain of the
boat to swing by a wall or two!
Cave Diving
Cave Diving isn't for everyone. Some people love diving under and
around rocks, overhangs and chimneys into large caverns while all
the time surrounded by a curtain of absolute darkness broken only
by the narrow beam of a hand held torch!
But, descending into the black abyss that seems to stretch into the
bowls of the earth is a sensation that excites many divers. Both freshwater
and saltwater cave/cavern diving can be exciting, different but dangerous.
In Thailand we have one cave, that we know off, about two hours
north of Bangkok and a mysterious cave somewhere out on the Sattahip
Islands that hasn't properly been mapped yet. As of this writing
we can't complete any cave diving because of the lack of them but
maybe sometime soon our mysterious cave will show up
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