Imagine diving in a tropical paradise

Diving: relaxing, action-packed, tranquil, adrenaline pumping, adventurous - diving is all this and more - the choice is yours.

Can you imagine diving in crystal clear waters, surrounded by brightly coloured coral and fish? You and your buddy enter the water and explore the abundance of marine life -- while hovering weightlessly underwater!

You first step to the diving world is the PADI Open Water Diver course, a three-day program including 4 dives that will take you from the shallow end of a swimming pool to a depth of 18 metres in the ocean.

Once you have completed this first step, you can enrol in the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course. In 2 days, you will complete 5 more dives of which one at a depth of 30 metres and one where will you learn to navigate underwater.

The PADI Rescue Diver course last 3 days and challenges you to be aware of your fellow divers’ safety and be able to respond to difficult situations while scuba diving. Before, you start this course, you will need to follow first aid training. The Emergency First Response course is one-day programme that will give you the skills and knowledge required.

Specialty Diver courses such as Enriched Air Diver, Deep Diver or Digital Underwater Photography will broaden your skills and opportunities in the underwater world.

So whatever level you are at now, there is always more to learn and experience. Ban’s Diving is the world’s leader for recreational scuba diving training. You can take any course, any day.

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  • Wed, 1st Feb

    Last day of the MSDT prep. Digital Underwater Photography at Chumphon Pinnacle. Yesterday we had another great dive inside the HTMS Sattakut wreck.

  • Sat, 28th Jan

    After successfully passing the IE, our January candidates are now ready for the next step: MSDT prep. Kick off this afternoon in the pool with the Tec Boys. Yeeha!

  • Thu, 26th Jan

    Congratulations to all the new PADI Instructors on Koh Tao!

  • Tue, 24th Jan

    IE time! Orientation and written exams today at 1pm. Wishing all the best to every candidate on Koh Tao!

  • Mon, 23rd Jan

    The mock IE is over and evryone passed with flying colors. Now for the real thing tomorrow... Best of success to all.

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