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Creating Scuba Divers Not Just Certifications

This blog is about learning how to scuba dive well and creating good good divers, not just doing what it takes just to get get a scuba diving certifications. Here we try and explain why it is important to do a professional basic scuba diving that creates scuba divers and not just ticking the boxes for a scuba diving certification. Scuba diving is an eye opening and amazing activity. It is something that everyone should try at least once in their life. As with all things fun, it does come with inherent risks. Although the number injured or fatalities are very low. Divers need to be aware of rare but possible dangers each [...]

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What To Do When You Can’t Go Scuba Diving

Here is a blog to give you some ideas of what to do when you can't go scuba diving during COVID-19. Having a ‘dry spell’, can't go scuba diving? Stuck indoors? Feeling like your gills are drying out? Maybe it is personal illness, family or work taking over your free time or a global pandemic. During periods when you can no longer go diving what can you do? Here are a few ways to cope & get through dry periods when you can’t get in the water. One great way to while away the hours when you can not get out in the water scuba diving is to watch some of the amazing nature documentaries. The list is endless on streaming se [...]

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How to Prepare a New Scuba Mask

Here are some Aussie Divers Phuket Tips on how to prepare and new scuba diving mask. There is a long going battle between scuba divers and foggy masks. There are a number or reason why a scuba diving mask may fog and one of those reasons is that the mask was not correctly prepared at the time of purchase. All new scuba masks have a thing film on silicone on the lens that occurs during the manufacturing process. You will need to remove this silicone prior to wearing the mask and applying any defog products. Tip #1: One of the reasons a scuba mask fogs is through exhaled air through your nose. Your exhaled air come fro [...]

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Reasons to get Scuba Diving Certified

Here are some great reason to get yourself scuba diving certified. Get yourself out of the lounge and into the water. People worldwide are always looking for new exciting adventures, hobbies, sports & activities to take on. Things they can enjoy with their friends & families or even personal challenges like sky-diving, hiking, mountain biking, fishing etc. These activities are ether to take on a new hobby or maybe to personally challenge. Like facing a fear of heights with sky-diving. One activity that I personally believe that everyone worldwide should try out at least once in their life is scuba diving. In the PADI O [...]

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What is a PADI Open Water Referral

Travelling to Phuket with friends or family? On a tight schedule? Looking to maximize your time in Phuket for other activities/tours? The PADI Open Water Referral is what you could be looking for. Are you interested in taking the PADI Open Water course, but you’re on a limited time schedule? Or perhaps travelling with friends or family and want to maximize your time spent with them whilst in Phuket. Then the PADI Open Water referral system may be a good option for you. Taking advantage of the PADI Referral system allows for you to complete most of your initial scuba diving training at home. This will be together with your [...]

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Support Phuket’s Local Scuba Diving Industry

Today more than ever, consumers are faced with many different ways of purchasing or buying the same product. Here in Phuket, Thailand it is the same. You will have the opportunity to support local scuba diving industry or the big players. Scuba Diving is no different, particularly the Similan Island scuba diving liveaboard adventures. In recent years has seen the introduction of two large online liveaboard booking agents, Liveaboard.com and PADI Travel. Both are legitimate business. Both operations European based and have huge advertising power beyond the reach of local Thai operators. Prior to that booking were made either dire [...]

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Travel Times in Phuket to Chalong Pier

Phuket Island is a lot larger than most new visitors believe. It is around 50km in length and about 12km in width. It takes in about 576 square kilometres of land. The travel times in Phuket to scuba diving pier in Chalong are longer than often expected. The island is also a lot busier than some new travelers expect. Official reports have the local population at almost 400,000 however some unofficial reports say that there could be up to 1 million people on the island at any one time. The large number of locals and visitors on the island and the long travel distances creates quite dense traffic conditions and at times can hamper tra [...]

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