Discover Scuba Diving Plus

Location : Phi Phi Ley and the Bida Islands – Dive Sites

Class Size: 2 Divers to 1 Instructor.

Duration: A Morning or Afternoon plus one dive on the beach

Price: 4,900 Baht

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to breathe underwater. If you want to find out but aren’t quite ready to take the plunge into a certification course, then Discover Scuba Diving Plus is for you.

Discover Scuba Diving Plus is ideal for visitors who have little or no swimming skills. You start the beach dive in water shallow enough to stand up in and move into deeper water at your own speed. Firstly our instructors will lead you through the skills you will need and allow you to build your confidence in the shallow water. Then you can move on to a 2 dive, half day of diving, and explore the underwater world with our expert instructors.

We run the Discover Scuba Diving Plus with a normal ratio of 2 customers to 1 instructor. However if you are in a group of friends don’t worry we can take you all diving together, by adding more staff to your group, we will keep the ratio of 2 divers to instructor. If your traveling on your own we will either buddy you up with another independent spirit or take you one on one. Our courses are conducted by experienced and certified PADI and SSI instructors with a ratio of 2 students to one instructor. With custom built boats, excellent dive equipment and professional service your course will be enjoyable and memorable.

Discover Scuba Diving Plus Schedule

You have the option of starting your dive experience with a shallow water dive in the morning at 8.30am or in the afternoon at 4pm. This is followed by a two dive trip either on the same day in the afternoon or the following day depending on your schedule. This gives you the option to fit in a dive trip before you leave the island or to sleep in and join us in the afternoon the next day.

Sign up – You will need to book the day before and select the time for you shallow water dive, you are able to book online before arriving on the island. As part of the booking paperwork you will need to complete a short dive medical form (a copy can be viewed here)
Complete you shallow water dive on the beach at 8.30m or 4pm.
The deep water dive trips start at 7.30am or 1.30pm when you will arrive at the dive centre and meet you instructor. After two great dives you can expect to be back at the dives center at 12.30pm for the morning dives and 6pm for the afternoon dives.

Trip Breakdown

Requirements

You need to be Medically fit to dive. This means that you must be in reasonable good health, a medical questionnaire is completed at the start of the course and divers with a pre-existing medical condition will need a doctors approval before diving. The medical questionnaire can be downloaded from here. If you need to answer ‘Yes’ to any of the questions in the medical please check with a doctor and have the second page of the medical signed.
Ten years of age or older.
Divers will need to stay a minimum of one night on Phi Phi island, preferably in the Tonsai Bay area.

Whats Included

Equipment Rental
Insurance when diving
Tea, Coffee, fruit, water and lunch while diving.
1 Beach dive and 2 Open Water dives from one of our dive boats
Instruction from a fully certified and renewed instructor

Other Information

All dive trips in the Phi Phi National Park are subject to a first day entry and diving charge of 400 baht with 2nd and 3rd days incurring a charge of 200 baht. These payments are in addition to the diving prices and the payments are made directly to the national park rangers not ourselves.
Please retain you national park tickets to show on subsequent days of diving.
You will need a break of 18-24 hours between the end of your last dive and flying(even short flights) so please take this into consideration when making your travel plans.
When choosing where to stay we suggest that you stay in the Tonsai Bay Area or Long Beach – see map
The equipment includes a choice of 3mm short or long wetsuit, 5mm boots to prevent blisters on your toes, Mares super channel fins, mask (regular, large face, small face and prescription masks are available), Scuba Diving regulator with a Suunto dive computer and a BCD. We have tea, coffee, drinking water, a selection of fruit and a lunch of your choice to keep you refreshed and energised. There are also 15 litre tanks if you use a lot of air at no extra charge.

Trip Breakdown

7.30am drive at the dive centre and meet your instructor
8.00am Dive boat departs from the Tonsai Bay pier
Your instructor will give a briefing on the do’s and don’ts of scuba diving and then you will have a short session (10-15 minutes) in shallow water learning the basic diving skills that you will need for the dives.
8.45am Dive 1, its time to experience the amazing wildlife of Phi Phi
9.45-11.00am After the first dive there is a break on the boat for lunch and refreshements.
11.am Dive 2,
12.30pm return to dive centre.

The afternoon dive trip runs to a similar schedule but starts at 1.30pm and fininshes at 6pm.

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We had the best experience diving for the first time with our instructor Sally and photographer Jenni Colliers. Throughout our experience these guys helped us with our queries and guided us to make the best out of our open water adventure. I’d highly recommend for any beginners looking to scuba dive in phi phi islands.

Today I had the chance to do an amazing dive with Barakuda dive! It was my first time diving but after this great experience I can’t wait to dive again. My dive instructor was the lovely Angie who made this trip as perfect as possible. She explained everything to me and never left my side, so I felt really secure the entire time. Besides we had so good luck today seeing lots of beautiful fish and even a turtle! I really can recommend this lovely team to everyone – frequent divers as well as beginners! This makes your stay at Koh Phi Phi really complete.

We just did these two amazing dives today with our instructor Stefan. The whole trip was very well organized, no waiting, everything went as promised, the whole crew was fun and easygoing. A big plus for us, being beginners, was that we were only a diving group of two – it s stupid, but it made us personally feel safer, like the instructor has only two of us to look after. Stefan was the best, patient, encouraging and joking all the time. We liked him since we stepped into the shop – professional diver with over 1000dives, obviously enthousiastic about his job, not luring us with all this “come to see turtles, we will see sharks” like they did at other places. He was keeping it real, knowing his sites but with all the unpredictability of the nature. He also gave us a tip for an amazing local thai restaurant 🙂 While diving, he was a good teacher, practising all the basic diving skills with us, answering our beginners questions and showing us plenty of fish, eel, coral, turtles that he found for us – and we were adequately thrilled 🙂 if we had time we would definitely do our license here, I totally recommend this place and Stefan too.

Had an amazing experience as a group of complete beginners who had never dived before. Staff were extremely knowledgable, helpful and professional. Javier and Sophie were very kind and patient with us and made sure that we had the best experience possible. Although other diving centres are cheaper in the area, we felt the money was well worth it to dive with Barakuda. The equipment was top notch and the staff made us feel very comfortable and safe throughout the day.