Diving in Pattaya

Pattaya offers year-round diving with a diverse pick of sites and excursions at comparatively grievous costs. A water temperature of around 28C all year round makes this a favorite sport with both experts and beginners.   photo credit: dachalan

Some beginners approach here particularly to study at one of the many 5 star diving centres for a section of the price of the equal training in their home states. Courses furor from one to 4 days, depending upon the proficiency you want to advance & the type of diving you want to study.

If you already have a proficiency certificate, a day’s diving will typically price you just under 3000 baht with gear catred. Night diving with 3 dives will be about 3500 baht. Different options are as well initiate for experienced divers, including specialist days when a ship diver, drift diver, underwater naturalist, underwater videographer, and as well nitrox diving. These will price 4500 baht for 2 dives and instruction.

2 daytime speciality dives useable from Pattaya include intense diving, demolish diving, underwater photography & nighttime diving. These are commonly priced at around 8000 to 9000 baht for 2 days.

For the initiate or the intermediate diver who needs to study or ameliorate, PADI courses are readily useable. An launch water dive line over 4 days will get you your PADI certificate for around fourteen,000 baht ($350 or £200), with an advanced initiate water diver 2 daytime line at twelve,000 baht with 5 dives. There are as well day-long introductory dive classes whenever you are brief on time.

A twenty-one daytime dive master line is around twenty-eight,000 baht, and many folks cease on to instruct diving at one of the centres, which are often earnest to hire unusual instructors.  photo credit: JennyHuang

Pattaya dive sites

There is a huge pick of diving sites within easily advance of Pattaya, & most boats depart from either Pattaya or Jomtien. The most convenient & favorite regions to dive are around the different offshore islands only a couple of kilometres from the mainland. The islands farther from the shore take longer to get to but lean to be a lot quieter and do not abide from the speedboat & jet-ski traffic of the islands closer to Pattaya.

The primary dive sites in the region include:-

Ko Sak: has 2 primary sites begining in a sheltered bay then it’s perfect for beginners and those who have not dived for a although. There are tons of difficult corals & seafood in this trivial (12/14 metre) diving region.

Ko Larn: is the biggest isle arrive Pattaya. It is a favorite daytime adventure for tourists and there are thus rather a couple of dive spots. Shark Point, when the designate recommends, is the put to watch young sharks when wonderful when the unique turtle or cuttlefish with soft coral to twenty-two meters. Ko Larn Vak is most famous for a half constructed eatery which was then poorly sited that it sank during its building, going away many keen petite caves and novel coral on the factual. Golden Bay as well on Ko Larn is a multi-purpose dive site with a intense dangle off to around 50 meters & coral down to about twenty-five meters. Many really honorable difficult coral at between 7 and ten meters provides many engaging diving.

Ko Krok: is a petite isle on a tidal stream and is perfect for drift diving.

Ko Rin: is one of the ‘far islands’ located about fifteen kilometres off Pattaya and which takes 90 minutes or then to get to. It has 3 primary dive sites; the one at Ko Rin Bay being a relaxing dive distant from currents, although Hin Ton Mai & Hin Khao (Northern and South-Central Rocks) are really favorite for the diverse assortment of seafood & coral.
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Ko Man Wichai: is different ‘far island’ & is a favourite with returning diving visitants. The 2 superior dives here bring some folks encourage year after year with a assortment of surroundings in every dive. The close Ko Hu Chang is a little isle with kindly coral & a cornucopia of petite seafood, with a resting ten metre profundity.

Ko Phai: or Bamboo Isle is moderated by the Royal Thai Navy, who restricts the utilize of the sands, but the petite sheltered bay at the south of the isle is perfect for beginners.

Samae San: & the surrounding sites have many of the finest diving in the area. The Hardeep Wreck of a freighter that sunk in 1943 is the justification wherefore most divers approach to this site, but at twenty-seven meters it is not one for beginners. There are 2 really kindly coral dives close.

Ko Chuang: advance Ko Chan and Submarine Rock, provide 3 regions of diving concern not distant from Samae San, with dissimilar corals and seafood at every site.

Diving Centres

There are some diving centres on the Easterly seaboard & in Pattaya itself. Examples are:

Aquanauts Diving: is a PADI 5 star enterprise offering courses, daytime and nighttime dives, & overnight trips in their personal huge ship. 437/17 Moo6, Soi Yodsak, Seaside Street, Pattaya, Chonburi 20280, Tel: 038 361 724, Fax: 038 412 097, Email: info@aquanautsdive.com Meet shape.

Mermaid’s Scuba Diving: in Jomtien is as well a PADI 5 star center with its personal ship & competent expert on plank each adventure. Jomtien Seaside Road  75/124 Moo12, Nongprue, Chonburi 20260, Tel: 038 232 219, 232 220, Mobile: 086 143 5547, Fax: 038 232 221, Email: pjscuba@gmail.com
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Moose Diver: as well in Jomtien, has approximately the same pricing structure & they talk English, Norwegian, Swedish and Thai. Tel: 03-823-1874. email: scubamos@loxinfo.co.th

Pattaya Dive Centre: on Seaside Street, Centric Pattaya is a 5 star IDC operation, with professionals on every adventure onboard the Lady-go-diver the only quick catamaran dive ship.. Tel: 03-871-0918. e-mail info@divecentrepattaya.com.

Diving & Snorkelling in Pattaya - Do:

• Practise how to utilize all shapes of diving equipment.
• Make certain you are healthy, nap obedient and take no alcoholic beverage.
• Cook your diving equipment such when diving screen, flippers, breather, life vest, scuba, etc.
• Cook your moist accommodate & skin lotion.
• Put on your life jacket earlier snorkelling.
• Tie the ship with the provided buoy.
• See the corals on the place designated by your guidebook only.
• Be deliberate not to touch/break the corals.
• Amass underwater litter to be discarded on the shore.