Published: 07 May 2018

For your convenience in scuba diving in Koh Tao and Samui, one of the great opportunity for many experienced divers is the PADI Rescue Diver course.

Taking place over three days (including the Emergency First Response Primary and Secondary Care) with our experienced instructors in our dive center Scuba Birds in Koh Tao. This course increases your awareness beyond ‘self’ and into ‘global’ awareness. This means that you understand more about responding to other diver’s issues and equipping you with the necessary knowledge to deal with dive emergencies, minor and major, using a variety of techniques learning on shallow dive sites on Koh Tao like Japanese Garden or Mango Bay. It is probably the most physically demanding certification, as it includes recovering unconscious divers from the water a challenging task. All in all, it is a fun and rewarding experience and can make you a much more knowledgeable and responsible diver and make you diving on Koh Tao or Samui safer.

Published: 04 May 2018

During your diving in Samui or Koh Tao you can improve your scuba diving skills by taking a PADI Specialty diver courses in our dive center Scuba Birds on Koh Tao or Samui.

If there was something of your PADI AOWD course you particularly enjoyed and would like to take that further you continue with taking a PADI Specialty diver courses. All the adventure dives you did in your PADI Advanced Open Water course in our dive center Scuba Birds count as Dive #1 of their corresponding PADI Specialty Course. Here are just some of the options:
PADI Deep Diver Speciality Course: If you want to see what lies beyond 30 m, welcome to PADI Deep Diver course, with the help of which you are able to dive down to 40 m — the maximum recreational dive depth. Learn more about gas narcosis effects, navigating and pressure at depth and visit dive sites around Koh Tao — Chumphon Pinnacle and South West pinnacle.
PADI Wreck Diver Specialty Course: If Sattakut wreck in Koh Tao win your heart and you dream about many other wondrous wrecks laying on the sea bottom, maybe the Wreck Specialty course is for you: four dives during two days, with the option to go inside the wreck on Dive #4. Learn how to perform tie offs, advanced buoyancy techniques and the risks and hazards associated with wreck penetration.
PADI EANx Diver Specialty Course: Want to prolong your No Decompression Limit on the depth? Good idea to try Enriched Air Nitrox. By learning about enriched air (up to 40% O2), you will then be able to extend your bottom times.
There are many other specialties you can look into including, but not limited to: Digital Photography, Night Diving, Peak Performance Buoyancy, Search And Recovery, Sidemount Diver with our experienced instructor in Scuba Birds diving center in Koh Tao.

Published: 02 April 2018

If you want to try diving in Samui, simply take PADI Discover Scuba Diving program.

It’s not a scuba-certification course, but instead a quick introduction to scuba diving, a little bit more intensive and challenging than PADI Bubblemaker program.
Children will learn breathing rules and equalizing techniques; how each piece of their equipment works on the best dive sites around Koh Tao and Nang Yuan Islands. To be safe during scuba diving in Koh Tao they need to learn some hand signals for underwater communication; regulator recovery and clearing; mask clearing; respect for aquatic life; and BCD inflation and deflation. Our experienced instructor in our diving center Scuba Birds will help with everything. After short key skills training, they will swim in gradually deepening water, maximum of 6 m depth in confined water and 12 m depth in open water on the dive sites around Koh Tao like Mango Bay, White Rock or Twin Pinnacles.
Our dive center Scuba Birds will be happy to apply the PADI Discover Scuba Diving program cost to PADI Open Water Diver course tuition should you and your child decide to certificate.

Published: 30 March 2018

PADI Bubblemaker program gives kids a chance to try Scuba Diving in Koh Samui and Koh Tao and use scuba diving gear (mask, fins, tank, BCD with low-pressure inflator, regulator, and air gauge) in a confined-water environment, and, as the name indicates, make bubbles.

The water should be no deeper than 2 m, usually, we dive in one of the beautiful dive sites around Koh Tao on Japanese Garden, close to Nang Yuan Island.
What will they do?
During this very basic introduction to scuba diving in Koh Tao, kids learn about scuba equipment and how it works. Then they get a chance to try it out on the interesting dive sites around Koh Tao like Japanese Garden or Mango Bay. They learn to equalize, clear a regulator and mask, and to breathe efficiently, all under instructor’s supervision with a ratio of student-to-instructor max. 2-to-1, but more often 1-to-1. To make it easier for a small child to try scuba, our dive center Scuba Birds in Samui has junior-sized gear, including BCDs, wetsuits, masks, fins, also smaller mouthpieces, comfortable for kids, and smaller tanks.

After completing the program young student will receive a PADI Bubblemaker diploma. From 10 years old they could start scuba diving course — PADI Junior Open Water Diver.

Published: 26 March 2018

On your diving on Koh Tao or Koh Samui islands you must visit Red Rock. It’s one of the popular and most visiting diving spots around Koh Tao, located in the east part of Nang Yuan Island.

On diving in Koh Tao you can visit Red Rock Pinnacle, it’s great for a drop-off site from our Scuba Birds boat, followed by a dive south into Japanese Gardens or a site on its own. Maximum depth of this Koh Tao’s dive site ranges from 16 meters to 20 meters and the rock rises up to around 4 meters from the surface. During you diving in Koh Tao you can see a large crack around the eastern and northern sides of the rock at around 16 meters harboring all sorts of different species from shrimps and nudibranchs to morays and bluespotted stingray. Just a short swim from the pinnacle to the west is Nangyuan Cave — a long swim-through, with lots of nudibranchs, glass cleaner shrimps, pipefish. PADI Underwater Naturalist specialty course will really help you to learn how to identify these creatures around Koh Tao. The corals to the north and south along this wall dive are home to a wide variety of marine life: porcupine pufferfish, bannerfish, snappers and lots more. Keep your eyes open for turtles, sea snake and very rare unicornfish, close to Japanese Garden, one of the beautiful dive site on Koh Tao.