• +66 952 398 270
  • dircavediver@gmail.com
Koh Tao Thailand Diving
  • Home
    • Meet the Dive Team
      • David Polley
      • Ivan Karadzic
    • Koh Tao Thailand Diving - Course Reviews
    • Scuba Evolution- Our Old Koh Chang Dive centres!
    • Book Now - Course Pricelist- NAUI/ProTec
    • Tech Diving Thailand Co. Ltd. Insurance
  • Courses
    • Book Now - Course Pricelist- NAUI/ProTec
    • Fun Diving for Certified Divers. Rec, Tech or Cave.
      • Fun Dives for certified Divers
      • FUN CAVE DIVING – for certified cave divers only
    • ProTec - Cave Diving Courses
      • ProTec Discover Cave
      • ProTec Cavern
      • ProTec Intro Cave
      • ProTec Full Cave
      • ProTec Full Cave Diver Package - Cavern, Intro to Cave and Full Cave
      • ProTec Sidemount Intro Cave
      • ProTec Sidemount Full Cave
      • ProTec Intro Cave Rebreather
      • ProTec Full Cave Rebreather
      • ProTec Cave Rescue
      • ProTec Advanced Cave
    • ProTec
      • ProTec Recreational Courses
        • ProTec Master Diver
        • ProTec SCUBA CORE INSTRUCTOR
        • ProTec Group Leader
        • ProTec Dive Master
        • ProTec Divemaster 3*** Diver
        • ProTec Advanced Open Water Diver
        • ProTec Rescue Diver
        • ProTec Open Water Diver
        • ProTec Advanced Open Water Diver 2**
        • ProTec Discover Scuba Diver
        • ProTec Intro Scuba
        • ProTec 1* Diver
      • ProTec Specialities
        • ProTec Gas Blender 1 & 2
        • ProTec Nitrox
        • ProTec Full Face Mask
        • ProTec Dry Suit
        • ProTec Diving with Children
        • ProTec AED Knowledge
        • ProTec Night Diving
        • ProTec Current & River
        • ProTec Boat Diving
        • ProTec Medical 1st Aid
        • ProTec Advanced Navigation
        • ProTec Search & Recovery
      • ProTec Technical Courses
        • ProTec Intro to Tech
        • ProTec Rebreather course
        • ProTec Normoxic Trimix
        • ProTec Extended Range
        • ProTec Intro Trimix
        • ProTec Technical Wreck
        • ProTec Sidemount Tec
        • ProTec Sidemount
        • ProTec Advanced Trimix
      • ProTec - Cave Diving Courses
        • ProTec Discover Cave
        • ProTec Cavern
        • ProTec Intro Cave
        • ProTec Full Cave
        • ProTec Full Cave Diver Package - Cavern, Intro to Cave and Full Cave
        • ProTec Sidemount Intro Cave
        • ProTec Sidemount Full Cave
        • ProTec Intro Cave Rebreather
        • ProTec Full Cave Rebreather
        • ProTec Advanced Cave
        • ProTec Cave Rescue
      • ProTec Mine Diving Courses
        • ProTec INTRO MINE
        • ProTec FULL MINE
        • ProTec Full Mine Diving Course
    • NAUI
      • NAUI TECHNICAL DIVING Courses
        • NAUI INTRODUCTION TO TECHNICAL DIVING SKILLS
        • NAUI MIXED GAS AND DECOMPRESSION DIVING
        • NAUI REBREATHER DIVING
        • NAUI Overhead Environments
        • NAUI DIVER PROPULSION VEHICLE (DPV)
        • NAUI Gas Blender and O2 Service Technician
      • NAUI specialty diver courses
        • NAUI Night Diver
        • NAUI Deep Diver
        • NAUI UNDERWATER IMAGING
        • NAUI TRAINING ASSISTANT
        • NAUI PUBLIC SAFETY DIVER
        • NAUI CONTINUE LEARNING
        • NAUI Enriched Air Nitrox (EANx) Diver
        • NAUI Drysuit
      • NAUI diver courses
        • NAUI Enriched Air Nitrox (EANx) Diver
        • NAUI Advanced Scuba Diver
        • NAUI RESCUE SCUBA DIVER
        • NAUI MASTER SCUBA DIVER
        • NAUI First Aid Provider
      • NAUI Introductory Programs
        • NAUI Try Scuba/Passport Diver
        • NAUI TANDEM SCUBA DIVER
        • NAUI SKIN DIVER
        • NAUI GET CERTIFIED/SCUBA DIVER
      • NAUI leadership and instructor courses
        • NAUI DIVEMASTER
        • NAUI ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR
        • NAUI FIT
        • NAUI INSTRUCTOR CROSSOVER
    • Course Pricelist
    • Fun Dives for certified Divers
    • Diving Videos and Photos of your Course
  • Dive Sites
    • Diving Videos
    • Dive Sites
    • Cave Diving Expedition to Ang Thong
    • Gallery
  • Accom&Other
    • Accommodation
    • Things to Do in Koh Tao
  • Contact
    • Contact Us
    • Book Now
    • Book Now - Course Pricelist- NAUI/ProTec

Dive Sites

 

SHIPWRECKS

 

 

Koh Tao local dive sites

Chumphon Pinnacle

Sail Rock 

Japanese Gardens

Twins

White Rock

Red Rock

Green Rock

Japanese Gardens

Japanese Gardens - Koh Tao Diving | Roctopus Dive | Scuba | Thailand

Twins 

Diving Courses and Diving Trips around Koh Tao with Dive Wishes & More |  Twins

Chumphon Pinnacle

 

Sail Rock

 

Koh Tao Local Shipwrecks

HTMS Satakut

MV Trident

Unicorn Wreck

WWII Schooner Wreck

 HTMS Satakut

Northern Wrecks

HTMS Phanagn

Vlado 

Pornsri

Tanker

C45 Airplane

Sukothai pottery Wrecks

 

Eastern Wrecks

Namei No. 5

Tottori Maru

Bigboy

Seacreast Drillship

 

Southern Wrecks

USS Lagarto

Tairyu Maru

Akita Maru

Shigure

 

South China Sea Wrecks

Hatsutaka Maru

HMS Repulse

HMS Prince of Wales

O19

K17

Sara D

Seven Skies

 

Straits of Mallaca Wrecks

Haguro Maru

WWII Cargo

Sun Vista

HMS Stonehenge

HMS Porpoise

Andaman Sea

Koh Lipe Wreck

USS Grenadier

HMS Squirrel

HMS  Vestal

Seachart Wreck

SS Petaling

Sunshine Frieghter

 

CAVES

 

 

SONG HONG

SRA KEAW

KHAO SOK  NATIONAL PARK

 

Scuba Tech Cave Wreck Diving Thailand

 

Currently only doing photography and videography of all your diving courses, including Open Water, Specialities and Technical diving courses, including videos of Full Cave Diving Packages Wreck and Trimix courses with any dive centres around koh Tao.

Welcome To KOH TAO THAILAND DIVING

KOH TAO THAILAND DIVING is located in the heart of Sairee Beach on Koh Tao at KOH TAO THAILAND DIVING consists of a dedicated technical diving team set to exploring and mapping Thailand's wrecks and caves. Every month we carry out several cave and tech wreck exploration trips. We head to the cave systems in southern Thailand to carry out cave courses, training and exploration there. We search for virgin WWII wrecks in the Gulf of Thailand and beyond, hunting for new wrecks and WWII Japanese "Maru" ships sunk by the Allies, and visit some of our favourite wrecks.  We also offer technical diver training so that you can explore some of these fascinating underwater sites few have ever seen.

Our Scuba, tec and cave instructional facilities are second to none and our dedicated Recreational Scuba, Technical and Cave Dive Instructors offer some of the most demanding and challenging technical diving courses available. Our  NAUI and ProTec Technical, trimix, cavern, wreck and cave diving courses are hugely rewarding. We strive to make every student stand out as a highly knowledgeable and skilled technical diver and we believe in exceeding course standards.

 Wreck Hunting Expeditions in the Gulf of Thailand

Aboard the MV Giamani, a fully kitted out technical live-aboard. We depart from Koh Tao, Pattaya, or Phuket visiting the HMS Repulse, HMS Prince of Wales, USS Lagarto, Tottori maru and many more. We will also be searching for some new marks such as the Akita Maru.

And we try and match all our competitors prices! Some dive centers may skim and undercut on other dive centers prices, using newbie inexperienced instructors with very little experience, and cutting corners and in big groups of strangers with very little concentration on each student's safety and enjoyment and so paying their newbie instructors absolutely basic wages and putting you in big groups with a bunch of complete unknown strangers! Unlike us, using a one on one or one on family or group experience with our Technical Instructor Trainer and course director (the most qualified and experienced instructor in the industry) greatly improving your safety and experience with 1000's of students and instructor clients under our belts and only with nothing but 5* reviews! 

“But we will match any other dive centers, just so we can ensure your safety with experienced technical instructor trainers! And no skipping on safety procedures or cutting any corners!”

 

As your safety and enjoyment is our number one priority! So if other centres are cutting corners and not concentrating on your safety and enjoyment and only care about making money and so undercutting all there competitors and cutting corners and cutting divers safety and enjoyment, we will match their prices with proof, only to keep our students safe and happy 😊!

      IMG_3121

 

Cave Diving Thailand

ProTec Cave Diving Courses - Cavern, Intro to Cave and Full Cave

Cave Diving Courses Thailand

Cavern, Intro to Cave and Full Cave

Cavern

Intro to Cave

Full Cave

Our technical dive centre is based on the island of Koh Tao, in the Gulf of Thailand. We offer some of the best value, tech diver training available from nitrox diving to full cave and instructor courses. We offer NAUI and ProTec courses. ProTec courses include Decompression procedures, Advanced Nitrox, Extended Range, Sports Mixed Gas, Tri-mix, Explorer Mix Gas, Advanced Mix Gas, compressor operator, CCR rebreather and gas blender courses and all NAUI recreational levels.

We offer the full range of ProTec tec diving courses including, decompression procedures, advanced nitrox, extended range, Tri mix, advanced Tri-mix, Cavern, intro to cave, full cave, CCR rebreather and side-mount diving.

ProTec dive courses include Decompression procedures, Advanced Nitrox, Extended Range, Sports Mixed Gas, Tri-mix, Explorer Mix Gas, Advanced Mix Gas, compressor operator, CCR rebreather and gas blender courses.

We can also offer ProTec Into to Tec courses on request, some of the best training available that can be carried out here in Koh Tao.

Our website is new and changing regularly so check back for the latest diving updates.

NAUI  ProTec Poster A4 Size

Welcome to Tech Diving Thailand, Technical Diving Department. Tech Diving Thailand is run by David Polley, an avid wreck and Cave Instructor and NAUI, ProTec AND ProTec Instructor Trainer, who is dedicated to running high-level technical diving courses and tech expeditions around Thailand. We also have a dedicated team of technical diving instructors running very high standard technical diving courses, CCR diving and cave/wreck expeditions from dive resorts are based in Koh Tao, Phuket, Pattaya, Koh Chang and Koh Lipe.

 Our technical diving facility has a team of experienced technical instructors teaching tech, wreck and cave courses to the highest standards at dive sites across South East Asia. We are Koh Tao's only CCR training centre with our in house CCR instructor David Polley and CCR workshop with sorb, cells and gas boosters.

ProTec & NAUI Technical Diving courses - Rebreather, CCR, Cavern, Cave, Tec, Trimix training

Technical Diving Facilities

The OUR technical diving facility includes:

  • A new workshop for equipment repair and servicing.
  • A gas blending station, offering nitrox and trimix and standard gases.
  • Technical diving rental equipment with leading brands, Halcyon, Hollis and Apeks.
  • Rebreather workshop with Gas booster, trimix, sorb and spares

At Tech Diving Thailand we have multiple tech boats, a high speed RIB and hard boats to reach the best technical diving sites in the Gulf of Thailand; we also organize regular tech trips on live-aboards into the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea and cave trips on the mainland.

Technical Diving Resort

The Tech Diving Thailand dive resort offers accommodation to suit all budgets and tastes nearby. There is also a swimming pool, nearby and the beach is nearby of the shop.

The Tech Diving Thailand Technical Diving Department also has a well-stocked tech diving shop offering: Halcyon, DUI, Scubapro, Apeks, Hollis, Light Monkey and Diverite technical diving equipment for sale.

 

Technical Diving Expeditions

 

We regularly hunt for new wrecks in the Gulf of Thailand and further afield into the straits of Malacca and south China Sea. We have many WWII wrecks from submarines to Japanese Marus (merchant ships) scattered across the Gulf of Thailand. Have a look at our schedule for trips and dates. Cave diving expeditions in southern Thailand are regularly run looking for new cave systems and mapping Thailand underground caves and sinkholes. Come and join our cave diving research group after completing your cave course looking for new caves in Thailand.

Technical Diving Courses

Tech Diving Thailand is a ProTec Technical facility, ProTec Technical center of excellence, a NAUI TecRec center and 5 star dive resort. We maintain the highest standards on our courses, teaching to highest level to make safe highly skilled divers we know will be safe in the environments we train them in from deep wreck penetrations to 100m+ cave dives. Safety and diver proficiency our our primary concerns at Tech Diving Thailand.

 

Cave Diving Thailand

ProTec Cave Diving Courses - Cavern, Intro to Cave and Full Cave

Cave Diving Courses Thailand

Cavern, Intro to Cave and Full Cave

Cavern

Intro to Cave

Full Cave

https://www.techdivingthailand.com/

http://kohtaothailanddiving.com/

https://professionaldivertraining.com/

Tech Videos

 

Read more …

TRIMIX

Trimix Diving DSAT Trimix 65 TDI Advanced Trimix

 

Tri Mix Diving Thailand.

Tech Thailand offers TDI, DSAT and BSAC Tri Mix courses, DSAT Tri-Mix 65, DSAT Tri Mix Diver, TDI Tri Mix and Tdi Advanced Tri Mix Diver, BSAC Sports Mixed Gas Diver, BSAC Explorer Mixed Gas and BSAC Advanced Mix Gas Tri Mix courses in Thailand. Our courses are run on the island of Koh Tao in the gulf of Thailand. Our courses run using DIR standard mixes. We offer our helium at a great rate making it very affordable, as we run a our tri mix through continous flow trimix blending system designed and built by Tech Thailand. Courses start in our 5 Star facilty in Koh tao, Thailand and can be completed on our wreck liveaboards or at in the sunken village at Khao sok. Our great prices include training, equipment, boat fees, certifications, course materials, transports to Khao sok, accomodation and food at Khao sok. Helium is charged at just 1.5 baht a litre and for the full DSAT course costs 17,000 baht. We offer some of the most intensive and thourgh tri mix courses available, covering mordern dive theory, including Ratio deco, ICD Isobaric counter diffusion and all the latest helium theories.

 


DSAT Tri Mix 65


Course Overview


The Tec Trimix 65 course is the natural continuation of the air tec courses. It builds on the knowledge learned and introduces divers to trimix diving. The Tec 65 course qualifies the successfull student to dive down to 65msw using trimix (min oxygen content 18%), perform gas switching and entering unlimited decompression obligations using nitrox or pure oxygen.

Pre-requistes

  • Minimum age of 18.
  • Advanced Open Water diver certified.
  • Rescue diver certified.
  • Tec 50 certified or equivalent.
  • Proof of 100 logged dives.


Details of the course


The Tec 65 diver course covers:

 

  • Trimix diving depth ranges
  • Exposure planningSelecting a mix
  • Argon inflation systems.
  • Handling three or four decompression cylinders
  • Decompression modelsEmergency procedures
  • Face masks and multi-gas computers

Course duration and number of dives

  • The Tec Trimix 65 diver course is a 4 day course and 5 dives are required


DSAT Tri Mix Diver


The DSAT Tec Trimix Course is designed for individuals already certified and experienced in technical deep decompression diving with air and enriched air nitrox. The course is designed to extend your depth range capabilities utilizing trimix to a max depth of 75m.


Pre-requisites :

  • Certified as a PADI Rescue Diver or have a qualifying certification in diver rescue and accident management from another organization
  • Certified as a DSAT Tec Deep Diver or have a qualifying certification in deep decompression diving using air/enriched air from another organization

Diver course.Minimum age: 18 years old

Course Duration: 5 day


TDI Tri Mix Diver

 

The objective of this course is to train divers in the benefits, hazards and proper procedures of utilising custom oxygen / helium / nitrogen mixtures as breathing gases with hypoxic Oxygen content, and utilize Nitrox mixtures and Oxygen for decompression to a maximum depth of 100 msw This course is for students looking at diving deeper reducing the effect of nitrogen narcosis and handling Oxygen Toxicity. This course is the highest diver rating achievable via the TDI course routes, it is extreme diving so therefore requires extreme levels of tuition. Students will master advanced planning techniques and open water skills required for this type of diving.


Student Prerequisites

  • Minimum age of 18
  • Minimum certification as a TDI Advanced Nitrox Diver and Decompression Procedures Diver (or equivalent)
  • Minimum of 100 logged dives

This course is run over four days and consists of one day of theory and three days boat diving. However, students who have already completed the Extended Range course may be credited two dives towards this course.

 

TDI Advanced Tri Mix Diver


Student Prerequisites:

  • Minimum age of 18
  • Minimum certification as an Extended Range Diver or Trimix Diver (or equivalent)
  • Minimum of 100 logged dives

This course is run over five days and consists of one day of theory and four days boat diving.  
The objective of this course is to train divers in the benefits, hazards and proper procedures of utilising custom oxygen / helium / nitrogen mixtures as breathing gases with no less than 18% Oxygen, and utilize Nitrox mixtures and Oxygen for decompression to a maximum depth of 60 msw (200 fsw). This course is for students looking at diving deeper reducing the effect of nitrogen narcosis and handling Oxygen Toxicity. This course has fast become the course of choice over the TDI Extended Range course.

 

 

  1. Diving Videos
  2. Technical
  3. David Polley
  4. Wreck

Page 3 of 4

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • Home
    • Meet the Dive Team
      • David Polley
      • Ivan Karadzic
    • Koh Tao Thailand Diving - Course Reviews
    • Scuba Evolution- Our Old Koh Chang Dive centres!
    • Book Now - Course Pricelist- NAUI/ProTec
    • Tech Diving Thailand Co. Ltd. Insurance
  • Courses
    • Book Now - Course Pricelist- NAUI/ProTec
    • Fun Diving for Certified Divers. Rec, Tech or Cave.
      • Fun Dives for certified Divers
      • FUN CAVE DIVING – for certified cave divers only
    • ProTec - Cave Diving Courses
      • ProTec Discover Cave
      • ProTec Cavern
      • ProTec Intro Cave
      • ProTec Full Cave
      • ProTec Full Cave Diver Package - Cavern, Intro to Cave and Full Cave
      • ProTec Sidemount Intro Cave
      • ProTec Sidemount Full Cave
      • ProTec Intro Cave Rebreather
      • ProTec Full Cave Rebreather
      • ProTec Cave Rescue
      • ProTec Advanced Cave
    • ProTec
      • ProTec Recreational Courses
        • ProTec Master Diver
        • ProTec SCUBA CORE INSTRUCTOR
        • ProTec Group Leader
        • ProTec Dive Master
        • ProTec Divemaster 3*** Diver
        • ProTec Advanced Open Water Diver
        • ProTec Rescue Diver
        • ProTec Open Water Diver
        • ProTec Advanced Open Water Diver 2**
        • ProTec Discover Scuba Diver
        • ProTec Intro Scuba
        • ProTec 1* Diver
      • ProTec Specialities
        • ProTec Gas Blender 1 & 2
        • ProTec Nitrox
        • ProTec Full Face Mask
        • ProTec Dry Suit
        • ProTec Diving with Children
        • ProTec AED Knowledge
        • ProTec Night Diving
        • ProTec Current & River
        • ProTec Boat Diving
        • ProTec Medical 1st Aid
        • ProTec Advanced Navigation
        • ProTec Search & Recovery
      • ProTec Technical Courses
        • ProTec Intro to Tech
        • ProTec Rebreather course
        • ProTec Normoxic Trimix
        • ProTec Extended Range
        • ProTec Intro Trimix
        • ProTec Technical Wreck
        • ProTec Sidemount Tec
        • ProTec Sidemount
        • ProTec Advanced Trimix
      • ProTec - Cave Diving Courses
        • ProTec Discover Cave
        • ProTec Cavern
        • ProTec Intro Cave
        • ProTec Full Cave
        • ProTec Full Cave Diver Package - Cavern, Intro to Cave and Full Cave
        • ProTec Sidemount Intro Cave
        • ProTec Sidemount Full Cave
        • ProTec Intro Cave Rebreather
        • ProTec Full Cave Rebreather
        • ProTec Advanced Cave
        • ProTec Cave Rescue
      • ProTec Mine Diving Courses
        • ProTec INTRO MINE
        • ProTec FULL MINE
        • ProTec Full Mine Diving Course
    • NAUI
      • NAUI TECHNICAL DIVING Courses
        • NAUI INTRODUCTION TO TECHNICAL DIVING SKILLS
        • NAUI MIXED GAS AND DECOMPRESSION DIVING
        • NAUI REBREATHER DIVING
        • NAUI Overhead Environments
        • NAUI DIVER PROPULSION VEHICLE (DPV)
        • NAUI Gas Blender and O2 Service Technician
      • NAUI specialty diver courses
        • NAUI Night Diver
        • NAUI Deep Diver
        • NAUI UNDERWATER IMAGING
        • NAUI TRAINING ASSISTANT
        • NAUI PUBLIC SAFETY DIVER
        • NAUI CONTINUE LEARNING
        • NAUI Enriched Air Nitrox (EANx) Diver
        • NAUI Drysuit
      • NAUI diver courses
        • NAUI Enriched Air Nitrox (EANx) Diver
        • NAUI Advanced Scuba Diver
        • NAUI RESCUE SCUBA DIVER
        • NAUI MASTER SCUBA DIVER
        • NAUI First Aid Provider
      • NAUI Introductory Programs
        • NAUI Try Scuba/Passport Diver
        • NAUI TANDEM SCUBA DIVER
        • NAUI SKIN DIVER
        • NAUI GET CERTIFIED/SCUBA DIVER
      • NAUI leadership and instructor courses
        • NAUI DIVEMASTER
        • NAUI ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR
        • NAUI FIT
        • NAUI INSTRUCTOR CROSSOVER
    • Course Pricelist
    • Fun Dives for certified Divers
    • Diving Videos and Photos of your Course
  • Dive Sites
    • Diving Videos
    • Dive Sites
    • Cave Diving Expedition to Ang Thong
    • Gallery
  • Accom&Other
    • Accommodation
    • Things to Do in Koh Tao
  • Contact
    • Contact Us
    • Book Now
    • Book Now - Course Pricelist- NAUI/ProTec