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PADI Specialty courses allow you to focus on a particular skill or type of diving to fit your needs. PADI Specialties take your diving skills past the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course to give you more time on specific areas such as wreck diving, deep diving, night diving and more.
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After you first dive there is a natural curiosity to go deeper. Scuba divers are drawn to the deep, there is something mysterious and exciting about it. The PADI Deep Diver Specialty is one of PADI's most popular scuba diving specialty courses. Contact Aussie Divers Phuket The best part about this course is that it will educate you on safe scuba diving practices that will allow you to explore at greater depths. The PADI Deep Diver [...]
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The PADI Enriched Air Diver course is PADI’s most popular specialty scuba diving course, and it’s not hard to see why. Scuba diving with enriched air nitrox gives you longer no decompression dive time. This allows you to spend more time underwater, especially on multiple dive days. Enriched Air is now available on nearly all scuba diving day trip and liveaboard boats in the Phuket, Thailand region. It is almost becoming a must for any [...]
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Welcome to Aussie Divers Phuket PADI Wreck Diver Specialty Course page. No matter what reason a wreck was sunk, either on purpose as an artificial reef for divers or the result of mishap, wrecks open amazing windows to the past. Most divers find wrecks wether they are ships, aeroplanes and even motor vehicles irresistible because they are fascinating to explore, exciting dives of discovery, and usually with an abundance of aquatic life [...]
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The PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy will improve your buoyancy skill, help with air consumption and extend dive times. Book a PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Course with Aussie Divers Phuket What is neutral buoyancy? Scuba divers like to be neutrally buoyant so they neither sink nor float. It can be a tricky thing. Divers who’ve mastered the highest performance levels in buoyancy stand apart. You’ve seen them underwater. Th [...]
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As the sun sets, you slip on your dive gear, don your scuba mask and bite down on your dive regulator. A deep breath and you step off the boat – into the underwater night. Although you’ve seen this reef many times before, this time you drop into a whole new world and watch it come to life under the glow of your dive light. Have fun and complete the PADI Night Diver Course with Aussie Divers Phuket. Night diving in Phuket is best done as [...]
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Learn more about the PADI Diver Propulsion Vehicle. Contact Aussie Divers Phuket to do your PADI DPV Specialty Diver Propulsion Vehicles offer a thrilling way for scuba divers to cover much more underwater territory in in a shorter period of time. They glide you through the water allowing you to scoot over reefs, explore more of a large wreck or even make your way from the crowds. Whether making a boat dive o [...]
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Learn more about the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Course with Aussie Divers. Great underwater photography is becoming easier and more affordable as technology advances. Previously only great underwater shots were taken by professionals with big cameras. Now with the advent of compact cameras with high performance and high quality, great photos can now be taken by scuba divers of just about any level. Imagine experiencing so [...]
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Learn more about PADI Sidemount Diver Course with Aussie Divers Phuket. Tired of lugging around scuba tanks on your back? Want better buoyancy control? Scuba divers are discovering the joy of mounting cylinders on their sides. Sidemount diving now allows you more flexibility and better streamlining options. Those that have tried Sidemount agree that it is a much easier and more relaxing way to scuba dive. See what they are all talking [...]
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Learn more about the PADI Underwater Navigator Course with Aussie Divers Phuket. Be the diver everyone wants to follow and make your sense of direction legendary with the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course. Become the best scuba diver you can with Aussie Divers Phuket. Learning to scuba dive has never been so much fun. Finding your way is not a matter of luck! When everyone’s buzzing about a reef or checking out a [...]
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Have you ever dropped something in the water? Are you looking for those valuable lost items”? The PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course will help you learn the most effective ways to find missing objects underwater and safely bring them to the surface. Whether big, small or just plain awkward, there is a way to get them to the surface. This is PADI's most useful Specialty course. Contact Aussie Divers Phuket for you Searc [...]
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A great way to take care of the environment, the Project Aware Specialty course. The underwater world needs heroes. You can be one of them by championing the causes of the world’s most fragile and important aquatic ecosystems. You can make the oceans a better place. Learn about some of the most pressing problems facing these vulnerable environments and everyday actions you can take to help conserve them. It’s informat [...]
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Overfishing, bycatch and finning. You know that shark populations worldwide are facing tough challenges. Luckily divers can help secure a brighter future for sharks. Get ready to mobilize your troops into action. Teach the AWARE Shark Conservation Diver Specialty. Many shark species are in danger of becoming extinct but you can give sharks a fighting chance by completing the Project AWARE Shark Conservation distinctive specialty co [...]
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Be the one ready to help a fellow diver should the need arise by becoming a PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider. It is a very useful course to have as a scuba diver. Breathe easy—knowing that you know how to recognize illnesses treatable by emergency oxygen. Being the best buddy you can be means being prepared – especially in a time of need. This course will also give you credit towards the PADI Rescue Diver Course. You learn ho [...]
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PADI is the Professional Association of Diving Instructors and they are a scuba diving training organisation. Here we will explain, who they are, what they do and why you should trust your training with them. Learn to scuba diving with Aussie Divers P{huket - Book Here PADI began in 1966 by John Cronin and Ralph Erickson after they felt a need to allow everyone to have to opportunity to enjoy scuba diving. They also saw a need [...]
Find Out More... Book NowHere at Aussie Divers Phuket we don't just consider ourselves a PADI dive shop, we think of it as more, a big diving family of like minded individuals coming together to enjoy the marine environment through diving in Phuket & Thailand. We are always happy to chat with new divers or old, so please drop by anytime to see what is going on and if you have dived with us or want to dive with us than feel free to like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, read our community Dive Blog and generally stay in touch & stay informed.
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This is a question that I often get asked, and really it is not as simple as YES or NO. Here is some explanations and reasons why. If you want to become a certified scuba diver by doing the PADI Open Water Diver Course, the answer is yes. In the PADI Open Water Diver Course it is specified that you have to be able to swim continuously for 200 metres. This can be with any stroke however it does need to be continuous without stopping. There is alternate option and that is you do a 300 metre mask, fin and snorkel swim. Some do find this easier to the 200 swim. You also have to be able to tread water or float for at least 10 minut [...]
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On the 5th September 2023 Aussie Divers Phuket was awarded the the prestigious PADI CDC (Career Development Centre) rating. The highest possible store rating in the PADI Scuba Diving educational system. The award is testament to the hard work of the staff and instructors over the 11 years of since Aussie Divers Phuket commenced. Aussie Divers Phuket was delighted to receive this email from PADI Headquarters. Hi Darren, It gives us great pleasure to award Aussie Divers S-23442 the esteemed distinction of PADI Career Development Centre. You have now moved into the highest level of educational professionalism in our industry. [...]
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Thailand have some of the world’s most beautiful waters and as a result she has created 26 marine protected areas. The local Phuket marine protected areas also contain popular scuba diving sites in the waters of the Andaman Sea. The most popular for the scuba diving liveaboard vessels is The Similan Islands. The group of nine islands are a continental archipelago in the Andaman Sea off the coast of, and part of, Phang Nga Province. This area is about 100km north of Phuket. It is also the maritime border between India and Thailand. This takes in some of the famous dive sites of Elephant Head Rock, Anita's reef and Boulder City. [...]
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