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Photo Tips & Tricks

Photo Tips & Tricks

Local Dive Thailand guides are all highly skilled photographers that will happily document your day with their camera for you, but underwater photography is also hard, there are many tricks of the trade and knowledge that you can get in this section from our dedicated underwater photographers and video experts!

Underwater Photography Getting Started Photo Tips & Tricks

Underwater Photography: Getting Started

Many do but buying and underwater digital camera shouldn't be your first equipment purchase. Be safe and confident with your diving skills before you add extra stress and a massive distraction. Getting good results with modern digital cameras is fairly straight forward if you get the basics right and by the basics I mean the diving. You wouldn't expect great photo results if you're running around or jumping up and down on land, the same [...]

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Crinoid Shrimp inside of a Feather Star Photo Tips & Tricks

Let’s Talk About Light & Diving

In various scuba diving courses, such as PADI Advanced Open Water Diver, Deep Diver and Underwater Digital Photographer you are taught about light (about colours). The concept is quite easy to grasp as your visual experience while diving is directly liked to it. In a nutshell, light is affected by the distance it travels underwater (depth and subject distance) and topside conditions (time of day, weather and surface conditions). So it is a [...]

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Local Guides, Local Knowledge, Local Experiences

Don'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!

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Scuba Diving Phuket In Pictures

See exactly what our Scuba Diving Phuket Dive Tours are like, visiting the amazing reefs & wrecks of Phuket, Phi Phi Island & Thailand

Spectacular views of famed islands like Phi Phi, Koh Doc Mai, Maya Bay & many more
Spectacular Views
Amazing & rare marine life gallery
Amazing Critters
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Scuba Diving Phuket, Phi Phi & 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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great experiences on a open water course in phuket Scuba Diving For Beginners

How A Phuket PADI Open Water Course Works

A Phuket PADI Open Water Course will be the highlight of your holiday in Thailand. Our warm tropical waters, abundant marine life, excellent facilities and experienced PADI professionals will make the experience a special one. Unlike most diving destinations around the world, Phuket offers great infrastructure, plenty of other things to do and all year diving. It starts with a bright and early pick up between 07:00 - 07:40am depending [...]

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great discount on similan islands liveaboard Diving Discounts & Special Offers

2019/2020 Discounts On Similan Islands Liveaboard

Looking for discounts on Similan Islands liveaboards? Then we have a great deal for you. One of the best and certainly unique liveaboards that runs trips around the stunning Similan and Surin Islands National Parks has reduced the price for the months of December, January and February. All remaining places have been reduced in price. This unique vessel makes an already very special experience even better. Visit iconic dive sites such as Ri [...]

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thorny seahorses in phuket Rare & Peculiar Critters

Seahorses In Phuket

We're very lucky to get at least four different species of seahorse in Phuket. They're not hanging off every branch of coral so our guides have to work hard to find them but find them we do. Some of our Phuket diving trips are seem more attractive to seahorses than others. Anemone Reef, Shark Point and Koh Doc Mai are very productive but for some reason King Cruiser isn't. For the biggest variety of species you can try Kata Beach. Ne [...]

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