Local Dive Thailand now owned and operated by Aussie Divers Phuket
Local Dive Thailand is your best choice for PADI scuba diving courses in Phuket. We’re a complete Thai/British owned PADI dive centre with our own classrooms, pool and purpose built dive boat. Our focus is on guest safety and enjoyment. Our permanent team of fun, experienced and professional PADI instructors are hand picked to give you the best possible experience and instruction.
PADI is by far the most recognised scuba diving certification license, accepted, trusted & promoted everywhere you travel, guaranteed. Get your license with Local Dive Thailand PADI 5* Dive Centre in Phuket and you won’t ever regret the decision to become a scuba diver. We will help open up a whole new underwater world for you to safely explore with your family and friends.
We teach a wide range of PADI courses for beginners and experienced divers alike. From Discover Scuba Diving to PADI Dive Master and lots in between, we guarantee satisfaction and competitive prices.
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Keep learning with PADI by doing your next level of diver certification, become an advanced or Rescue Diver!
PADI is truly a global organisation. The Open Water Referral system allows you to spend your precious holiday time diving on our beautiful Phuket scuba diving sites. Team up with your local PADI dive centre and then join us for the real fun. Anything that you complete through a PADI dive centre or resort is recognised globally by any PADI dive centre. So complete all your theory and pool work back home and simply join us in the ocean t [...]
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The PADI Scuba Diver Course is a great choice for those with limited time in Phuket or lack confidence in water. You'll only need two days to complete this great little course and there is no swim test involved. Although we do highly recommend that you're a confident swimmer before taking up any diving activity. The course will go over all the basic safety and problem solving skills that you require to enjoy our incredible underwater wo [...]
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The PADI Open Water diver course in Phuket introduces you to our amazing and breathtaking underwater world while at the same time teaching you the skills to become a scuba diver. The course is designed to help you understand the basic principles of scuba diving, learn the essential diving/diver skills in a safe & controlled environment supervised by industry professionals and most importantly of all, enjoying yourself the whole time and hav [...]
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The PADI Advanced Open Water course opens up more of our amazing and breathtaking underwater world while at the same time improving extremely valuable divers skills like underwater navigation, buoyancy control and safely diving to 30 Meters. Taking the PADI Advanced Open Water will enable you to make the most of your scuba diving in Phuket. The AOW course is designed to help you understand advanced principles of scuba diving, further impr [...]
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First Aid Training In Phuket is just the same as anywhere else in the world. The Emergency First Response Course follows international standards so is valid globally. You don't have to be a diver to take this course, it's an extremely useful skill in all walks of life. Hotels and large companies should all have their fair share of willing responders. If you're in Phuket then we're more than willing to come to your organisation and let our pro [...]
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The PADI Rescue diver course is the most challenging and rewarding of PADI certification courses available. The PADI Rescue diver course improves your skills, confidence as a diver and is designed for anyone who wants to learn how to identify, manage & prevent diver or scuba diving emergencies. This course is much more demanding than the PADI Open Water, or Advanced Open Water but our experienced PADI professionals will get you through it [...]
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Why become a PADI Divemaster? Well they say that the secret to happiness in life is to find the thing that you love doing every day then figure out how to get paid for it. Well what if we told you that maybe the answer is simple, staring you in the face and well within reach? Welcome to the PADI Divemaster course, the answer to the above question, so you love diving, you'd like to do much more of it and also get paid while you are having [...]
Find Out MoreDon't trust your diving to amateurs or freshly minted dive guides, dive with local experienced experts from Local Dive Thailand. Our Scuba Diving Phuket Tours will take you to see the rarest of the rare critters, you will be amazed by the macro life our guides can find, in the secret places only they know. To put it in perspective, if you were going to climb Mount Everest you would certainly hire a local sherpa to lead the way & keep you safe. Diving is similar because there is absolutely no substitute for local experience & local knowledge, Local Dive Thailand's guides are Phuket's Sherpa's of the Andaman Sea!
Learn More About UsSee exactly what our Scuba Diving Phuket Dive Tours are like, visiting the amazing reefs & wrecks of Phuket, Phi Phi Island & Thailand
When talking about Scuba Diving in Phuket, you should believe the hype, many seasons we have had Whale Sharks grace us on our regular and easy to reach dive sites and on a good day you can add Sea Horses, Sea Moths, Snake Eels, Frog Fish & Octopus to what you can see on any given dive and so much more. If we are heading to Phi Phi Island for the day, you can possibly see Hawksbill Sea Turtles and Black Tip Reef Sharks, also don't forget the King Cruiser, 84 meters of beautiful wreck and the most amazing reef nursery for fish and nudibranch. Local Dive Thailand day trip tours to these locations are not to be missed when you are scuba diving Phuket, get in touch with us and book an 'awesome' day of diving.
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Scuba Diving For Beginners We're obviously biased but we think scuba diving is a very safe activity. Of course as with all adventure sports/hobbies there is an element of risk. The hard facts support that accidents in scuba diving are firstly rare and mostly the fault of the diver and could have been easily avoided. So let's have a look at some of the common safety procedures that keep you safe. Unsurprisingly, running out of air is the main culprit in scuba div [...]
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Rare & Peculiar Critters Fortunately Phuket hasn't got a huge population of crown of thorns starfish. They're strange appearance and beautiful colours make them great to look at but high numbers can cause immense damage. Their diet of healthy corals and venomous spines don't place them high on the welcome visitors list which is incredibly unfair. The venomous spines is all on them but destroying coral reefs? In a healthy ecosystem they would be just another li [...]
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Rare & Peculiar Critters Ridley Scott's alien monster has had people hiding behind the couch for over 30 years. In Phuket we scuba dive everyday with an animal that has the same fearsome set of double jaws. Luckily the penchant for snacking on humans isn't also emulated. All bony fish have a set of pharyngeal teeth in their throat but moray eels have a complete pharyngeal second jaw that they can launch forward and use to swallow their unfortunate victims. Consi [...]
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