Try Dive
Koh Tao, Thailand
- 200 THB
- 08:45 - 10:00 am
- Available Everyday
- Try scuba diving in swimming pool
- Breathe underwater & experience weightlessness
- Options to continue (coral reef dives / PADI course)
Try Dive | Try scuba diving before your next step!
Want to try scuba diving before committing to a PADI course?
Available daily, our experienced PADI Instructors run a 1-hour intro dive in our purpose-built training pool.
Practice breathing underwater using a scuba unit, experience weightlessness, and gain an understanding of how scuba diving works before choosing your next step.
Schedule
08:45 am – Meet @ Simple Life Divers
Briefing
Learn the basics of how scuba gear works, communicating using hand signals, and safe diving practices.
Equipment Donning and Pre-Dive Safety Checks
Get fitted in scuba gear & perform a pre-dive safety check to confirm everything is working correctly.
Practice Breathing Underwater
In shallow water, take your first underwater breaths.
Practice slow, steady breathing & gain confidence being underwater.
Underwater skills
Equalize your air spaces to stay safe, learn to clear water from the regulator & practice communicating underwater using hand signals.
Underwater swim – Experience weightlessness
Debrief
Review the intro dive with your instructor & discuss options for your next step…
Options to Continue
*200 THB intro dive is credited towards next activity.
Available Everyday
FAQs
What should I bring for the Try Dive?
To join the intro dive you just need swimwear to wear under the dive gear. We’ll provide everything you need for scuba diving.
Do I need to be fit to scuba dive?
To try scuba diving you need to be in good normal health, with no existing health conditions which may be an issue for scuba diving. You don’t need to be a super-fit.
If you think you may have a medical condition which might be an issue for scuba diving, review PADI’s Medical Statement. This highlights conditions which are potentially unsuitable for scuba diving (such as epilepsy, diabetes or heart disease).
Do I need to be able to swim?
You don’t need to be able to swim to join the try dive. Though it’s best if you have basic confidence being in the water.
For continuing options after the intro session, you don’t need to be able to swim to join the beach dive or two coral dives. These are closely supervised dive experiences where your instructor takes care of everything for you.
However, if you want to make the PADI Open Water Course you need to be able to swim 200 meters (as slowly as you want) and stay afloat for 10 minutes.
Is the Try Dive available everyday?
Yes – the Try Dive is available everyday.
We meet at Simple Life Divers at 08:45 each morning, and are finished by 10 am.
And if you enjoy the intro dive and are keen to continue, we have beach dives, boat dives and the PADI Open Water course available everyday too.
What options are available for continuing & how long do they last?
If you enjoy the Try Dive and want to continue diving we have 3 options, available every day.
The 200 THB payment for the Try Dive can be credited towards any additional scuba diving.
Option 1: PADI Open Water Course [POPULAR]
3 days | 11,000 THB
Get certified to dive to 18 meters anywhere worldwide.
Scuba diving theory, shallow water skills, and four proper dives exploring the coral reefs and marine life around Koh Tao.
Read more: PADI Open Water Course
Option 2: PADI Discover Scuba Diving
12:30 – 17:00 | 3,500 THB
Board the Simple Life Divers boat and head out for 2 coral reef dives off Koh Tao.
Single afternoon dive experience where you can explore to a maximum depth of 12 meters
Read more: PADI Discover Scuba Diving
Option 3: Beach Dive
10:00 – 11:30 | 2,500 THB
Immediately after the Try Dive, you can make a single dive straight out from the beach in front of the dive shop. Explore Sairee Reef to a maximum depth of 6 meters.
