Individual PADI specialty courses run for 8,000 baht each.
But when you take the Deep, Wreck and Enriched Air PADI courses together we can offer you the special package price of 18,000 baht. (A giant saving of 6,000 baht).
These three PADI Specialties greatly increase your diving skills and experiences, with exhilarating dives along the way:
During the PADI Deep Diver Specialty you’ll learn deep diving procedures and techniques, undertaking four deep dives which qualify you to explore right down to the recreational diving depth limit of 40 meters.
The PADI Wreck Diver course develops specialized knowledge and skills which allow you to see much more than the untrained diver. Exploring the shipwreck of the former Thai Naval vessel HTMS Sattakut, the course culminates in the opportunity for a penetration dive inside the shipwreck.
Finally PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver training teaches you to utilize enriched air gas blends containing up to 40% oxygen to extend your bottom times. We’ll apply these innovations during some of your deep and wreck training to gain more time at depth.
The three combined PADI specialties require us to complete eight training dives which we can run over three days. (Two days of three training dives & one day with two).
Or if you prefer a more relaxed approach we can spread the training over four days instead.
Let’s take a look at the highlights of each course:
Our no-decompression limits (NDLs) & thus dive times are determined by our body’s nitrogen absorption and elimination rates. So by reducing the amount of nitrogen in our breathing gas and replacing it with oxygen, we can extend our bottom time and/or enhance the safety of our dives. Such gas blends are referred to as enriched air (EANX) or sometimes nitrox.
However, increased oxygen concentration introduces different complications. During the PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox) Specialty you’ll learn how to safely plan dives using nitrox, including analyzing gas blends, correctly marking cylinders and special equipment considerations.
For a full explanation of the Enriched Air Course see: PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox)
Whilst most recreational divers remain in the shallow water, exploring to depths beyond 30 meters provides a thrilling new experience.
During the PADI Deep Diver Specialty you’ll learn techniques and procedures allowing us to venture right down to the recreational diving depth limit of 40 meters.
Training dives give the opportunity for exhilarating adventures off Koh Tao, exploring rarely visited areas of our deeper dives sites such as the Chumphon and Southwest Pinnacles, Green Rock and Shark Island. Giant soft coral fans and bizarre brightly colored sponges, unusual critters and aquatic life await us in the depths, often accompanied by challenging diving conditions as we descend into the thermocline.
A full summary of the PADI Deep Diver training can be seen on: PADI Deep Diver Certification
Shipwrecks provide some of the world’s most popular diving attractions. Unique underwater architecture often rich in history and teeming with aquatic life, wreck diving offers a rare and rousing chance for exploration.
The PADI Wreck Diver Specialty educates you to orient yourself on a shipwreck, identify potential hazards and create a map which we’ll use in later dives. Training dives will also focus on using a reel combined with careful finning techniques to avoid silts outs and maneuver around a wreck.
Our training dives will be conducted around the wreck of the HTMS Sattakut; a former Thai military ship which lies upright in 30 meters of water just off Koh Tao. The final training dive of the course gives an opportunity to make a penetration dive inside the wreck; exploring the narrow corridors and holds, or making your want onto the bridge.
A fuller description of the course is available on: PADI Wreck Diver Specialty
Learn to scuba dive in Koh Tao! The PADI Open Water Course is your 1st step. Explore coral reefs around Koh Tao & become a certified diver.
Single day intro to diving. Under instructor supervision, get to dive the amazing reefs off Koh Tao. Minimum age 10 years old.
2 day dive course training you to dive to 12M. Theory, skills and 2 amazing dives. Easy to upgrade to full PADI Open Water certification.
Try specialized diving activities including deep diving to 30M, night diving, navigation, wreck diving & more.
Amazing 3 specialty combo of deep diving to 40M, wreck diving (with wreck penetration) & nitrox diving. Monster special offer.
Join the crew at Simple Life Divers and become a Divemaster. Learn to giude underwater tours & become an expert diver.
Two dive trips each day for certified divers, rotating round all Koh Tao's best dive sites. Small groups, experience dive guides & lots of fun.
Unique opportunity: Join our marine conservation team and contribute to a reef restoration project & nurseries.
Been a while since your last dive? Refresh your skills and buoyancy with a half day PADI Scuba Review session.
Thailand's best dive site? Join our trips & find out! Dive Sail Rock's vertical 'chimney' swim-through & secret pinnacle.
Coral reefs, shipwrecks & pinnacles. Dive all the best spots; Chumphon Pinnacle, Sail Rock, HTMS Sattakut Wreck, Shark Island.
Find Nemo & much more! Turtles, trigger fish, moray eels, clown fish, barracuda, rays, whale sharks, bat fish, giant grouper.
Support our reef restoration project. Learn coral reef ecology & make a workshop propagating coral fragments on our nursery reef.
Join Simple Life's marine conservation team & make a positive contribution sustaining coral reefs in the Gulf of Thailand.
Escape to Koh Tao island & join Simple Life Divers crew. Tropical island life & epic diving. Adventure of a lifetime.
Amazing one month package. Become an expert level diver, exploring coral reefs and shipwrecks, experiencing life on a tropical island.
Join the Simple Life dive team and become a professional diver. Get trained to run dive tours and live in paradise.
Adventure of a lifetime! Become a PADI Dive Instructor, qualified to train new divers. Soak up the tropical island lifestyle.
Advice on travel to Koh Tao from Bangkok, Koh Samui, Chumphon, Suratthani or the Andaman coast.
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Elise, Norway
This is the place to go. Those who work there are the best and you will never regret if you choose Simple Life.
Matthew, Brighton
Cant fault the company, great fun, professional teaching. Will hopefully be doing dive master with them soon.
Dave, Vancouver, Canada
Absolutely fantastic place to learn to dive. Did Open Water Certification and I couldn't be happier
Kimberly, Chicago, USA
No better place to dive and you'll likely come away having made some lifelong friends. Highly recommend!
Bek, Sydney, Australia
Amazing few days spent at Simple Life Diving school on Ko Tao doing our PADI open water.
