Posted on Nov 23, 2009 in Cave / Cavern, Technical Diving | 0 comments
Although Aquanauts may be based in Pattaya, we do cavern, cave and rebreather courses for divers all over Thailand, including for some of the country’s highest-certified and experienced PADI professionals. For the past couple of months, ANDI Instructor Trainer (and PADI CD) Roger M. Smith has been training PADI Course Director Jonas Samuelsson of Bans Divers and Peter McCarthy PADI Trimix...
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Posted on Aug 19, 2009 in News, Technical Diving | 0 comments
We all know that age is not a significant barrier to recreational diving. People can learn to dive — or even become instructors — in their 60s. But technical diving has generally been a younger diver’s game. The number of people who learn to tech dive in their 50s is much smaller than that of those in their 40s, 30s and 20s.
But, as these photos show, you’re never really...
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Posted on Aug 12, 2009 in News, Technical Diving | 4 comments
When it comes to wreck hunting and exploration in Thailand, there are few who can rival the experience of the MV Trident’s Jamie Macleod and Stuart Oehl. But what may surprise many is that nearly all their technical expeditions have been done on open-circuit, not closed-circuit rebreathers.
“We’ve been meaning to get some proper training on CCR for ages,” Jamie said. “We’ve...
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Posted on Jul 14, 2009 in News, Technical Diving | 0 comments
Aquanauts today wrapped up another two DSAT Tec Deep courses, this time for Dharshana Jayawardena of Sri Lanka and Gary Smith, one of Aquanauts’ PADI Instructor and technical-diving interns. Both found the course extremely challenging, but hugely satisfying.
We joined the two students and TecRec Instructor Dan Beldon on Saturday for the final day of the first part of the 10-day course, a...
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Posted on May 4, 2009 in Cave / Cavern, Diving Courses, News, Technical Diving | 0 comments
Showing again why Aquanauts Dive Career Development offers the most well-rounded dive education avaialble, groups of interns have been embarking on training outside the mainstream divemaster and instructor training to learn to dive caverns … and eventually caves.
In February, four interns and Aquanauts Course Director / ANDI Instructor Roger M. Smith explored the caverns of Thailand’s...
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Posted on Apr 26, 2009 in Cave / Cavern, Technical Diving | 0 comments
Unbeknownst to many tech divers around the world, Thailand is speckled with caves and caverns from north to south, many of which have never been fully explored. Earlier this month Aquanauts’ Roger M. Smith and fellow ANDI Instructor Bruce Konefe tackled the vast Song Hong cave, accessed via a sinkhole in remote Trang province.
Dived by only a handful of people since its discovery in 2006,...
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Posted on Apr 8, 2009 in News, Technical Diving | 0 comments
When it comes to wreck diving in the Gulf of Thailand, two ships usually come to mind: the HTMS Khram, off Koh Phai, and the Hardeep, off Samae San. What most divers don’t realize, however, is that the Gulf of Thailand has a number of other wrecks waiting to be explored.
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Posted on Apr 6, 2009 in Cave / Cavern, Technical Diving | 0 comments
We finally got our hands on the photos from Aquanauts’ Cavern Diver course last fall at Thailand’s Thong Pha Phom near Kanchanaburi and what a great surprise they were.
ANDI Instructor Roger M. Smith led the course for Aquanauts interns (and now PADI instructors) Greg Hannigan, A.J. Rankin and Scott Clark. Hannigan was behind the lens and shot a bundle of photos. The best ones were...
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Aquanauts is Pattaya's only British-owned PADI 5-Star Career Development Center. We offer all PADI courses from novice to instructor and run daily diving and snorkeling trips to Pattaya's Near and Far Islands and three shipwrecks.
One only three PADI National Geographic CDCs in all of Thailand, Aquanauts maintains the highest standards, including training all of our instructors ourselves through our renowned