How your day out unfolds:
We offer 3-tank dive boat trips from Chalong Bay in Phuket, or Tap Lamu in Khao Lak. Breakfast, lunch and refreshments (drinks, tea and coffee) are served during the trips. The boat takes a maximum of 25 divers, and qualified divemasters are provided for every 4 divers.
Please wait for your pick up in your hotel reception area at 07:30 hrs (pick up from certain areas can be earlier); the boat departs at 08:30 hrs and returns around 18:00 hrs, but these times do vary depending on sites visited and the number of dives in the day. Boat journey times range from 1 to 3 hours.
We offer scuba trips on only the best dive boats available in Phuket, both in terms of comfort and service. They share some similar facilities - 20+ metre wood hull, steel ladders on the dive platform, kit up area, showers, toilets and rinse tanks, indoor saloon, sundeck and shaded area. All the boats carry emergency oxygen, MFA kits, evacuation procedures, ship-to-shore radio and mobile phone contact.
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Dive sites:
Our Phuket-based options here run throughout the whole year. From Phuket Island you can go diving in the Similans, as well as Phi Phi Islands and the 30 of so different local sites. For more information on these locations, visit: Phuket dive sites.
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Daytrip prices normally include:
Phuket hotel transfers (Patong Beach, Kata, Karon, Chalong and Kamala areas only), breakfast, lunch, drinks, dives, professionally qualified divemaster, shared air-conditioned accommodation on overnight trips, and taxes.
Prices exclude (mandatory, unless customer provides own): Phi Phi park fees per day (US$ 18 per diver/US$ 12 per non-diver), Similan National Marine Park fees per day (US$ 21 per diver/US$ 15 per non-diver), full set scuba equipment rental (Phuket dive trips US$ 18 per day; Similan dive trips (US$ 15 per day). Unless otherwise stated, all the listed items need to be paid on arrival.
Optional extras: Dive computer (Phuket dive trip US$ 7 per day); Similan dive trip (US$ 12 per day), dive insurance, nitrox (US$ 9 per 12 ltr tank, it needs to be pre-ordered). A private dive guide can be hired for US$ 59 per day. Unless otherwise stated, all the listed items need to be paid on arrival. Note: prices of items purchased on site are subject to change.
Non-divers and snorkelers: Phuket day trip US$ 74 per day; Similan day trip US$ 106 per day.
Day trip safety:
There are 2 re-compression chambers on the island, one at Patong Beach, and the other in Phuket Town. For general accidents, there is a provincial hospital in Patong, or several private international hospitals in Phuket Town. We recommend divers have their own dive insurance policy - see our insurance programme for a competitive quotation: