Published: 25 May 2018

PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course is more fun than studying (compare to Open Water Diver course).

In PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course you’ll have to do only five adventure dives under direct supervision of professional PADI Dive instructor, read five chapters of your manual and complete five knowledge reviews.
You could dive on the different (more than 25 spots) and interesting dive sites around Koh Tao. Execute Deep dive at Chumphon Pinnacle, play with your buoyancy on Twin Rocks in Buoyancy World, Wreck dive at HTMS Sattacut and so on. Scuba Birds dive center will find the best location for each Adventure dive.
Don’t stop after PADI Open Water Diver course has completed. If you love diving take the next step in your diving career. Open for yourself new dive spots and locations, new swimming technics.
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver certificate allows you to dive up to 30 meters depth on Koh Tao and Samui, so you’ll be able to see the best dive sites around Koh Tao and Nang Yuan Islands!

Published: 22 May 2018

If your child is 8 to 10 years than let him try diving experience on Koh Tao or Samui by taking PADI Bubblemaker program.

Two exited dives with experienced PADI Instructor in Scuba Birds Dive Center!
In PADI Bubblemaker program you kids could go diving for the maximum depth of 2 meters on the most interesting and shallow dive sites around Koh Tao and Nang Yuan Islands, minimum age for this program is 8 years old.
Usually, our dive center Scuba Birds conducts this program on shallow and comfortable dive sites Japanese Garden, Aow Leuk or Mango Bay. Let him try to take the first breath underwater and he will fall in love with diving. from this time PADI Instructor will be his best friend and teacher. It’s not going to be deep dive, however deep enough to see the living of coral reefs and amazing underwater life.
If you child really enjoyed his experience you could get back and take a diving course. PADI Junior Open Water course available from 10 years old. This is a course, so he will learn basic diving knowledge and skills, will be able to go down up to 12 meters. New, interesting dive spots on Koh Tao or Samui will be available for observation.

Published: 18 May 2018

You can find an amazing and colorful Parrotfish on your diving in Koh Tao at many dive sites.

The parrotfish family contains ten genera and about 90 species. It was named «parrotfishes» because the shape of their teeth resembles a bird’s beak plus the fact they swim with their pectoral fins in a bird-like fashion. They are often brightly colored.
The teeth of the parrotfish are uniquely designed to scrape algae from coral and rocks. This is its main food source. It is also able to grind up pieces of coral and excrete the indigestible sand. One parrot fish can chew coral into 90 kg of sand each year. Their teeth keep on growing continuously. Some species of parrotfish secrete a mucous envelope to sleep in during the night. This mucous is thought to give it some protection from predators. Some male parrot fish maintain harems of females. If the dominant male dies, one of the females will change gender and color and become the dominant male. The parrotfish plays an important role in the health of the coral reef — it feeds on algae that could smother the coral if left to grow.

Published: 14 May 2018

Stingrays are found quite frequently while diving in Samui and Koh Tao. There are two main types of stingrays that we see: The Bluespotted Ribbontail stingray (Taeniura lymma) and the Jenkin’s whipray (Himantura Jenkins).
The Bluespotted ray is the more common stingray, it is easily identified by many large brilliant blue spots on a yellowish-reddish brown body disc shaped body that is white underneath. The tail sting is set well back on the tail which has a small fringe like caudal fin and is longer than his main body.
The Jenkin’s whipray not so common here as the Bluespotted Ribbontail ray, is less colourful than the first one being a more gray or brown colour on the top and white on its underbelly, but it grows to an impressive 1,5 m across and has a broad, diamond-shaped pectoral fin disc and a whip-like tail.
Both rays are more active at night when they can be seen swimming around, hunting for their prey: worms, shrimps and crabs. It’s one big attraction of doing the night adventure dive on your PADI Advanced Open Water course.

Published: 11 May 2018

Koh Tao diving allows you to see different places and types of dive spots and Shark island, located on the south of Koh Tao is one of the beautiful dive sites in the Gulf of Thailand.

Named after its resemblance to a dorsal fin, Shark Island is a twin rock outcrop consisted of a steeply sloping reef going from 4 meters down to 25 meters, it is situated to the Southeast of Koh Tao which you could see when diving on our Scuba Birds dive boat. Each side of the islet offers a different array of marine life and features making it almost two sites in one! On the East side of the rock you will find a sloping reef with myriad soft corals, gorgonians and sponges, while the Westside offers hard coral formations that are home to moray eels, nudibranchs, snappers, banded angelfish and blue spotted stingrays. Titan triggerfish can be very aggressive here so approach with caution. Whale Sharks are frequently sighted in season along with the odd Turtle and there is also the chance of seeing a few Blacktip reef sharks. This site is also ideal for novice and experienced scuba divers and also for PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course. It offers great snorkeling around Koh Tao as well.