Itinerary

Open Water (OW)

When completing your open water course on Koh Tao, you can expect the open water course diving course to last between 3 –4 days. The time scale usually depends on how quick you and your group take to using the equipment. The first couple of days on the open water diving course will be spent in the class room and the swimming pool. This is after a short 8 length swim test: it is a requirement that you can swim this as a minimum before undertaking your open water scuba diving course in Koh Tao. You will learn about the safety aspects, about the equipment used and the physics of diving, all under the watchful eyes of your scuba diving instructor and an assistant Divemaster.

After the classroom and pool modules are completed and you have demonstrated that you are able to complete various open water diving course skills correctly (such as recovering a regulator, clearing your mask and others) you  will be ready to continue your open water diving course in the sea!

The open water diving course consists of 4 scuba dives, during these dives you will practice skills learnt in the pool and get used to the underwater environment, whilst diving with incredible fish in a beautiful underwater setting.

To pass the open water Scuba Diving course, you must complete an exam at the end of the course, this is not hard to pass, but you must study, or risk failure!

Advanced Open Water

The PADI Advanced Open Water Certification is a natural progression once completing the PADI Open Water Course. This course is scheduled over 2 days and consists of 5 Adventure dives from the list below (2 of which must be Deep and Navigation) On completion of this exciting course you will be awarded with the “Advanced Open Water Diver” certification, which allows you to dive down to a depth of 30 metres.
The real beauty of the advanced course is that it enables you to dive deeper to 30 metres enabling you to see more species and get more from your dives. It also improves your confidence and builds on the fundamentals.  If you plan to dive as a continuing hobby, then the advanced course is highly recommended.

The deep dive will be conducted at Chumporn or South west pinnacle, 2 of koh tao’s best dive sites. In order to get the best experience of these 2 sites you must be an advanced open water diver. This enables you to get down to the bottom and dive with grey reef sharks and large groupers. Very occasionally a large whale shark my stop by!

Rescue and EFR

When completing your Advanced open water course on Koh Tao, you can complete your  Rescue diver course. The rescue diver course to lasts about 2 days.  You also need to complete your EFR (emergency first response) course during this time.“Challenging” and “rewarding” best describe the PADI Rescue Diver course. Building upon what you’ve already learned, this course expands on what you already know about how to prevent problems, and how to manage them if they occur. If you are serious about your diving, take this course and have confidence leading dives.

On the PADI Rescue diver course, you are trained how to look out for the danger signs of distressed divers. The rescue diver course also teaches you how to rescue distressed divers, search for missing divers using specific search patterns. Should the worst situation become a reality, on the rescue diver course in Koh Tao, you are taught how to safely recover an unconscious diver from the sea bed, and administer first aid both in and out of the water, this includes giving mouth to mouth resuscitation in the water.

The rescue diver course is a pre requisite for the Padi Divemaster course, however even those not considering going professional, should consider this course, especially if they are intending on diving as an on going hobby. Koh Tao is a great place to do you rescue diver course, with a tropical paradise island full of divers, you will meet like minded people making the learning experience great fun.

Fun dive pack, only from level AOW

Not taking your Koh Tao Divemaster course  but want to  become a fully competent diver logging lots of fun dives and gaining lots of under water experience? With Koh Tao’s massive range of dive sites  you can be kept busy and excited for months!

Diving all over the world can be expensive, especially if you are on a round the world ticket heading to Australia.  With the ultimate Koh Tao diving package you can enjoy more diving for less cost whilst spending your time on Koh Tao.

The Ultimate Koh Tao fun diving package allows you to book by the week inclusive of accommodation and 10 fun dives, Ideal if you are pressed for time or want to maximise your Koh Tao Diving holiday experience.

With the ultimate Koh Tao fun diving package holiday, you can take your fun dives in the morning or afternoon or when available at night to fit in with your own plans. We aim to take the hassle out of turning up on Koh Tao for your diving holiday.

You can do the following courses in Koh Tao, if you could like to learn more about diving see here.

The Diving Courses

If you have never dived before you might only want to do your open water course (OW) which is the basic course enabling you to dive to 18 metres, personally i would do the Advanced open water as well (AOW), because then you can dive to 30 metres and you are not so limited as to dive sites when you dive else where as well. Bear in mind also that the advanced course has 5 dives included so for a little bit more you get many more dives and a higher level of qualification.

PADI Open Water Course (OW)

This will run for approximately 2.5 days. This includes pool sessions, 4 dives in the sea and practical and theory instruction. The open water certifies you to dive to a maximum depth of 18 metres and is the initial plunge into the scuba diving world.

PADI Advanced Open Water (AOW)

This is a continuation of the Open water, covering deep dives (30 metres max) and the theory behind some of the issues you encounter when diving deeper. There is plenty to know about decompression, and the practical dives are more focused on gaining dive experience rather than the basics of learning how to dive.

Rescue and beyond

If you really go for it you can complete your rescue diver course after the AOW, this would mean staying an extra week. The res cue course teaches you how to save distressed divers and greatly expands on diving safety. It also includes an EFR course (emergency first response) which is a first aid course applicable outside of diving as well.

If you wanted to book and extra week of fun dives you can do that as well.