A 5 starts PADI Diving school located at Haad Rin, offers diving courses and cruises in Koh Phangan area and other Islands riffs such as Sail Rock, Chumpon Pinnacle and South West Pinnacle in Thailand Gulf!
Lotus Diving is one of the most historical dive center on Koh Phangan. 12 years experience in diving industry, ensure to provide high quality services to every single customers. Learning PADI Courses or diving with Lotus professionals will make your days memorable.
Discover Scuba Diving comes in different setup ranging from a pool only session to a full day of diving. It can be done in one or two days. For one day program, skills and briefing will be done directly on the boat and at the dive site.
Scuba Diver
Sometimes you wish you could just dive without spending too much time on learning.This certification lies between the initiation to scuba diving with Discover Scuba Diving and the first level certification PADI Open Water Diver full certification. It allows you in a short period of time to acquire the necessary knowledge to dive without further studies with a PADI professional to depth of up to 12 meters. With this certification you will not need to go through other exercise to dive under direct supervision of an instructor.
Open Water Diver
You will learn all the basics required to be a safe diver and will cover topics such as equipment, theory, planning, techniques. Upon completion you will be certified as PADI Open Water Diver and will be able to safely dive with a buddy and not accompanied from a professional to a depth of up to 18 meters / 59 feets.
Adventure Diver
Ready to explore new horizons of diving? You are already a PADI Open Water Diver and you would like to try new ways of diving or take on new dive challenges. Aventure Diver gets you to experience new kind of diving or help you refine your diving habits
Advanced Open Water Diver
This course will teach you some more advanced diving techniques for underwater navigation and to dive to a maximum depth of 30 meters / 100 feet but also a choice of three adventure dives.
Two of the required adventure dives are Deep Dive and Underwater Navigation.
Master Scuba Diver
The Master Scuba Diver program is not a certification by itself but a recognition of all the knowledge and skills acquired through other courses. It is the highest non professional level in the PADI system of certification and titles. It show proof of mastery and good skills and makes you a very reliable dive buddy.
Rescue Diver
Want to be a safer diver and would like to learn how to cope with emergency situation. This course is created to build upon the diving foundamentals that divers has already acquire. It gives confidence and enhance readiness to deal with in water and post dive injuries or medical emergencies. Assiting someone in the water require special skills and procedures as it differs a lot from what you can experience on land. You will go through different rescue scenarios in the water which required different and specific procedures.
Deep Diver
The Deep Water speciality pushes the limits of other dives certifications to the recreational limit fo 40 meters. Diving this deep requires additional knowledge and techniques that will make you a safer and more experienced diver.
Enriched Air Diver (Nitrox)
Enriched air is also called Nitrox or EANx and is composed of a different gases ratio than regular compressed air used for most recreational scuba diving activities.
Multilevel Diver
It is possible to get more dive time and less surface interval by using more accurate measurements of the dives than the one given in the traditional dive tables.
With the retirement of the well and the introduction of the eRDPml it has been made very easy to calculate nitrogen exposure with more accuracy giving you precious dive time.
Night Diver
Diving by night or sunset can bring a new facet to any dive site even the ones already dived on daytime as it attracts and activate a different marine life. This is why divers choose to extend their dive time by adding diving by night to their experiences.
Just add a torch to the regular dive gear, a few more skills, a way to communicate, some knowledge and you are good to go.
Peak Performance Buoyancy
Master your buoyancy control through different exercises that help you better understand the mechanics of buoyancy with proper weighting and breathing techniques.
This adventure dive or speciality will assist you with fine tune you techniques underwater which in turns help you with many aspects of diving. It is a good addition to other speciality like Digital Underwater Photographer or Underwater Videographer where buoyancy control and stability are part of successful shoots.
AWARE Fish Identification
You have been diving already and you are interested in identifying the species of fish you encounter, the AWARE Fish ID speciality has been tinkered to give you all the tools and methodology to identify specific fishes and make the difference between the members of the same families.
Self-Reliant Diver
The buddy system is and old safe and proven system in scuba diving. But you might find yourself being away from your buddy, taking pictures by yourself, shooting a video of several teams or with divers that are not trained to respond to underwater emergencies. This is the reason behind the Self-Reliance specialty course.
The Self-Reliance Diver distinctive speciality will teach you to rely on yourself first with specialized techniques and the use of specialized scuba diving equipment.
Underwater Digital Photography
This speciality course will guide you through the step required to make underwater digital photography. It will guide you through using a digital camera, setting the special housing, adjusting the settings underwater, processing and storing.
Assistant Instructor
The first step into becoming a dive instructor is to learn how to think like one and this course will fill the gap between leading dives to teaching how to dive.
As a PADI Divemaster you already know what is the work of an instructor and you might have already assisted one. You have already read the PADI Instructor Manual and have an extended knowledge about scuba diving gear, planning, standards, RDP and have already acquired everything a leader in diving require. It is time to take the leap into a career scuba diving by becoming an Assistant Instructor where you will learn the PADI system of diver education.
Divemaster
You would like to dive even more, dive as a passion, dive as a job, Divemaster, the first professional PADI level allows you to guide certified divers and assist other PADI professionals in teaching scuba diving programs.
You will learn how to safely lead and assist certified divers as a professional.
Instructor Development Course IDC
You are passionate about diving, you love the lifestyle, you want a career working in the most beautiful places in the world.
IDC Koh Phangan Become a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor and live the dream.
Divers will often remember their first dive instructor as the one who left a great influence and the most memories. He was the first contact to the underwater world when you took your very first breath and the one who helped turn fears into confidence. You trusted him and saw him as a mentor and a role model in scuba diving.
As a scuba diving instructor you will have more work opportunities and will be able to teach scuba diving around the world.
