Dive! Dive Dive!

Sue and Mark Fitzsimmons from Australia enjoyed their first time dive ever this morning and cannot wait to go in for their second dive today.

They happily completed their introductory or Discover Scuba Diving programme with Instructor Austin.

These programmes are ideal for those who want try scuba diving for the first time and have limited time in which to do it. We offer these introductory dives everyday with prices starting at 2950 baht for 1 dive (during our high season months between October to May).
During this low season we have a special offer on the 2 intro dives off the daytrip boat to Koh Racha Yai an island located 1 and 1/2 hours south of Phuket. The cost is now 4900 baht (normal price 5450 baht), lunch, refreshments on the boat and transfers included.

Date at The New Wreck!

More happy PADI Advanced Divers!

Elizabeth and Kirk from the USA successfully completed their Advanced Course with the club yesterday.

Here you can see Elizabeth peering through the ferry which was recently sunk at Racha Yai. On the second day of their course they were also lucky enough to see a 5 meter Whaleshark. The video which was taken by Instructor Joe Blasy will be added to our blog later.


....aah sweet...what a happy buddy pair!

New species at Racha Yai!

These rare species were spotted underwater recently: PADI Instructor Austin with his Open Water Student Seen Yuen Wong from Singapore completing her Open water dives at Koh Racha Yai.

Grooving at Friendship Beach again!

It was good to see our favourite local band The Groove Doctors perform together again. We had not seen them perform for quite a while so it was great to watch them again. Truly inspiring musicians and a friendly bunch of guys! The venue was outdoors at The Friendship Beach Resort in Rawai.

This lovely boutique style establishment is located directly on Chalong Beach with great seaviews and beautiful natural garden setting around the pool. Chef Charlie outdid himself as usual with his great buffet spread. Definitely the best spot for spare ribs on Phuket. Also the perfect location for detoxing and healing at their Atmanjai Wellness Center.

After a few days of heavy rainfall it was great to chill out around the pool and enjoy the relaxing environment.

As Kevan likes to say "it was just like being on a tropical island" :))

A Delightful Evening out at the Cafe Del Sol

It was great to see our Swedish friends Anders, Birgitta and Jessica with their friends back diving with the club. And as usual they brought us a huge bumper pack of our favourite Swedish delicacies!

To celebrate our reunion we dined out at the stylish Cafe Del Sol restaurant located on the premises of The Boomerang Village situated on Kata Hill. Excellent food, stunning views and romantic ambiance.

The cuisine is a mixture of delicious authentic Italian and Thai food and the prices are very reasonable. This establishment offers the perfect venue for sundowners and a good evening out.

Here Jessica and her mum Birgitta are chilling out in the sala before dinner. The entire Harlin family have been diving with the club since we opened our doors and it is always a pleasure to see them back here. Thanks for the great evening guys!

The Hong Kong Belles are back!

What a great surprise it was to see Joy and Helene from Hong Kong back again! They completed their Advanced Course with the club in 2001.

They brought their friends Jenny, Chee and Angel to come and dive with us.

Here they are standing in front of our great Wall of Fame proudly showing off their certification pics in our photo album. Once the Wall of Fame is filled up with pics of our students we transfer their photos to our albums for our records. It has been a tradition since we opened our doors in September 1997 and it has been so amusing over the years to watch people recognising pics of their friends (who have dived with us before) on the wall.

Welcome back ladies!

Trendy Wendy Divers!

Instructor Joe with his latest Open Water students Sze Zhenkai and Wee Yirong from Singapore showing off their new Pinnacle Rash Vests.

These trendy rashies are on sale at the club:- Long sleeved - 1800 baht, short sleeved - 1500 baht.

Sze chilling out after completing the course on the terrace at his hotel located on the outskirts of Patong - Le Meridien.

Well done guys!

After A Hard Days Diving!

Seen here at The Bounty Bar celebrating the completion of their Open Water Course are Julia, Hannah and Martin with their Instructor Joe.

They completed their Open Water dives last week at Koh Racha Yai.

On the same trip toasting their first time underwater as Discover Scuba Divers are Di and Laurie from Australia. They also celebrated the engagement of Di's daughter Jayne to Jarrad. He proposed to her when they arrived on Phuket. Read Laurie's recent review on Tripadvisor.Thank you Laurie - it was a pleasure meeting you and your clan as well!

So for us at the club....any excuse for a small get together. Some things never change.

Well done Simon!

Congratulations to Simon Yik from London on recently completing his PADI Open water Course with the club.

Here he is seen out on the daytrip boat to Koh Racha Yai - an island located 1 and 1/2 hours south of Phuket. These sites around this picturesque island are ideal for Open Water Course training dives.

Another Diving Destructor!

Well done to long time club member Glenn Wright for recently passing his Instructor Development Course (IDC) and Instructor Exam (IE).

His Course Director was Bent Posejpal who is our favourite CD on Phuket. Most of our Instructors on our team have been trained by Bent (no pun intended).

Here Glenn is seen celebrating with his lovely wife Jill who completed her Open Water Course with her parents at the club in 2005.

Of course Kevan jumped at the opportunity to join the IE after party at The After Beach Bar and restaurant to share a few refreshments with Glenn and Bent. Chok dee Krap/Kaa Glenn!!!