Promo: PADI Deep, Wreck & Nitrox Specialty Combo
@ Simple Life Divers | Koh Tao, Thailand

Schedule: Deep, Wreck & Nitrox Combo on Koh Tao

The three combined PADI Specialty courses include six training dives, which we typically complete over three days.

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:

PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox) 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.

PADI Deep Diver Specialty

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.

PADI Wreck Diver Training

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.

The best-known wreck dive around Koh Tao is the HTMS Sattakut.

The HTMS Sattakut is a former Royal Thai Navy vessel that was deliberately sunk as an artificial reef in 2011. She sits upright in approximately 30 metres of water and is suitable for qualified wreck divers, with opportunities to explore both the exterior and selected penetration routes.

More recently, the HTMS Hanhak and HTMS Suphairin have also been sunk as artificial reefs, giving experienced recreational divers even more wrecks to explore around Koh Tao.

For experienced technical and CCR divers, there are several deeper wrecks nearby, including the MV Trident near Shark Island and the Unicorn Wreck north of Mango Bay.

Citation: ✅ Tourism Authority of Thailand – Koh Tao Diving
https://www.tourismthailand.org/Articles/scuba-diving-in-thailand

This combo integrates the three specialties by allowing you to complete your Deep and Wreck training dives while breathing Enriched Air Nitrox. This overlapping structure saves you days of classroom time and extra boat trips.

Instead of taking each course completely separately, you complete the digital E-Learning for all three subjects beforehand. Then, we apply the practical skills simultaneously during your deep ocean dives on Koh Tao.

Completing the PADI Deep Diver Specialty certifies you to dive to a maximum recreational limit of 40 meters (130 feet) worldwide. This is the absolute deepest you can go before entering technical diving territory.

This is a massive upgrade from the standard Advanced Open Water limit of 30 meters, allowing you to safely explore the sand beds of Koh Tao’s deepest pinnacles and wrecks.

Citation: ✅ PADI – Deep Diver Specialty
https://www.padi.com/courses/deep-diver

Nitrox increases your safety margins and extends your “no-decompression limit” (bottom time), which is crucial when exploring deep sites or wrecks.

At 30 or 40 meters, your body absorbs nitrogen very quickly on normal air. By breathing Enriched Air Nitrox (within the oxygen limits for the gas you’re using), you’ll generally have longer no-decompression limits than when breathing air, allowing you to make better use of your available bottom time on many dives.

Citation: ✅ PADI – Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver
https://www.padi.com/courses/enriched-air-diver

To enroll in this 3-Specialty combo, you must hold a PADI Advanced Open Water certification (or equivalent) and be at least 15 years old.

There is no minimum logged-dive count required, but because deep and wreck environments require tight control, having good baseline buoyancy skills will make your course much more enjoyable.

Citation: ✅ PADI – Deep Diver Specialty
https://www.padi.com/courses/deep-diver

Citation: ✅ PADI – Wreck Diver Specialty
https://www.padi.com/courses/wreck-diver

Yes, booking our 3-Specialty Combo saves you up to 6,000 THB compared to booking the courses separately.

We include all digital E-Learning materials, equipment rentals, and specialized Nitrox tank fills in the package price.