Prapaht Sea Sports Club, Phuket Thailand Scuba Diving Courses

If you've always wanted to try scuba diving - then jump in! Here's your chance to breath underwater in a fun, short and convenient session !!!

The Discover Scuba experience introduces the non-diving public to diving in a safe, controlled, enjoyable session that puts you at ease.

Discover Scuba provides you with an opportunity to actually scuba dive in the confines of our swimming pool - it's a great way to take your first breath underwater !!!

You can ask your instructor to introduce a few skills - these can then be counted towards your Discover Scuba Diving experience or your Open Water Course or you can just splash around.

Discover Scuba for Kids - if you're eight or nine years of age, here is your chance to take the plunge with a PADI Instructor and Go Diving !!!

This program is similar to Discover Scuba and can also be conducted in the Open Water to a maximum depth of 2m.

This is an ideal program for kids with diving parents who wish to get their kids diving or even to take their kids out on the boat diving with them.

The PADI Seal Team is for young divers who are looking for an action-packed, adventurous program filled with exciting scuba "AquaMissions."

Have you ever wondered what it's like to dive with flashlights, take pictures underwater or float effortlessly like an Astronaut? If you have, this is your chance to explore these exciting adventures in a swimming pool.

As a PADI Seal, you learn the basics of safe diving and explore different AquaMissions - or specialty dives -like buoyancy, underwater photography, environmental awareness and more.

What's an AquaMission? It's an underwater pool adventure where kids learn scuba activities. Take AquaMission: Inner Space Specialist for example, here kids learn how to float underwater like an Astronaut. And AquaMission: Snapshot Specialist, this is where PADI Seal Team members take pictures of each other scuba diving.

Supported by a video, manual and logbook, the PADI Seal Team program is a great way for kids to share the excitement and wonder of diving yet in a controlled environment.

This exciting program allows anyone over 10 to safely experience the thrill and excitement of breathing underwater - diving both in a pool or off the beach and also from a boat at some of Phuket's finest dive sites.

In the pool or shallow water just off the beach you'll master some basic concepts and scuba skills, often done during Discover Scuba, before heading off on an actual open water dive in the sea with your instructor.

The Open Water dives can be conducted from a boat or at one of our house reefs.

So you will not only get to dive in a pool - but also out in the sea with the fish and the coral !!!

AND .. having completed this program you will gain credit for both your pool and open water dives - meaning that you will already have taken the first part of your Scuba Diver or Open Water Course.

This experience program is your ticket to the action-packed underwater world. With tips and suggestions on how to make the most of your snorkelling adventures, this program is based on three simple principles:

1. You snorkel because you want to see and interact with the underwater world
2. Snorkelling is a great adventure
3. The whole family can do it - No minimum age requirements !!!

Participants may learn in our pool or may go directly into the sea, again either from the beach or a boat or out at the islands.

Have you ever snorkelled - but somehow that just didn't get you close enough to the fish or the coral ???

If so - The PADI Skin Diver Course is for you - during this program you'll learn about the equipment, the environment and specific information about skin diving here in Phuket.

You'll also practice techniques of breath holding skin diving, entering the water, checking your buoyancy, surface swimming, snorkel clearing.

It will build your confidence in your skin diving abilities and help you to explore the mysteries of the aquatic realm.

Taking place in both the pool and the open water, The PADI Skin Diver program is an is an excellent pretraining experience for children who want to explore the possibilities but are too young to dive with scuba or before trying the PADI Bubblemaker or Seal Team programs.

This two day course is perfect for those thinking of getting certified but who don't have the time as it allows you to dive with a PADI Divemaster or other dive professional !!

The PADI Scuba Diver program is a pre-entry level certification that is perfect for holidaymakers short on time or people who only plan to dive a couple of times a year.

The course consists of some pool dives, Knowledge Development sessions and two open water dives out on the boat or off the shore.

It is a subprogram of the PADI Open Water Diver Course, allowing you to gain a limited certification quickly and easily by minimising time constraints allowing you to dive under the direct supervision of a PADI Divemaster, Assistant Instructor or Instructor.

As a PADI Scuba Diver you are certified for life to dive under the supervision of a PADI professional.

By the way - all you need to do to Upgrade to "Full Open Water" is to complete the last two days of the Open Water Course . !!! .. or you can happily remain a Scuba Diver and still dive under supervision whenever you wish !!

This is PADI's entry-level full certification course and is the most sort after entry-level course in the world - more people have become divers with this course than any other.

During this four day course you'll learn the basic knowledge and skills necessary to dive safely. The course consists of two days pool dives and Knowledge Development and two days diving out at the islands conducting four open water dives.

Upon completion of this course you will have earnt The PADI Open Water Diver certification and be qualified to rent equipment and conduct dives independent of a professional up to a depth of 18 meters anywhere in the world.