Diving Phuket Liveaboards Thailand aboard Jonathan Cruiser

PADI Discover Scuba Diving
This course is for you who want to find out in a safe, relaxed and fun way if scuba diving is your future, without spending too much money.

Prerequisites :	Minimum age 10 year
Duration :	1 days
Dives :	2
Cost Opt. 1 :	2,600 Baht One dive from the beach
Cost Opt. 2 :	4,400 Baht Two dives from boat (day trip)
Includes :	Free scuba diving equipment rental

PADI Scuba Diver Course
This course is for you with not enough time to complete the full PADI Open Water Diver Course. The course consists of three theory lessons, three pool (or confined water) sessions and finally two dives in the sea. After completion of the course, it entitles you to dive in a group guided by certified divemaster, assistant instructor or instructor to a maximum depth of 12 meters. Should you at a later stage wish to upgrade to a PADI Open Water Diver certificate, a further 2 days of continued education is required.

Prerequisites :	Minimum age 10 year
Duration :	2 days
Cost Opt. 1 :	7,500 Baht Two dives from beach
Cost Opt. 2 :	9,300 Baht Two dives from boat (day trip)
Includes :	Manual, dive table, log book, free scuba diving equipment rental, certificate cost

PADI Open Water Diver Course (beginner course)
The course consists of five theory lessons, five pool (or confined water) sessions and finally four dives in the sea. The completion of the course leads to a certificate which entitles you to dive all over the world to a recommended depth of maximum 18 meters (for Junior Open Water Diver see below).

Minimum age :	10 for Junior Open Water Diver 10 – 11 years old may only dive with a PADI Professional, a certified parent or certified guardian to a maximum depth of 12 meters. 12 – 14 years old is qualified to dive only when accompanied by another certified diver who is of legal age.
Duration :	3 – 4 days
Cost Opt.1 :	12,000 Baht four dives from the beach
Cost Opt. 2 :	13,800 Baht two dives from the beach, two from boat
Cost Opt. 3 :	15,400 Baht four dives from boat
Includes :	Manual, dive table, log book, Free scuba diving equipment rental, certificate cost

PADI Open Water Diver Course Referrals
A student who only partially completed his/her course with another dive operation can make the final part of the course with us. For example, if a student has completed the theory and the pool sessions in his/her home country, he/she can make the final four open water dives with us and we will issue the certificate.
Duration and cost depends on how much of the course to complete, please contact us for a quotation.

PADI Scuba Review
This program is tailor made for the already certified diver who wants to refresh his/her diving knowledge and skills. If you have stayed away from diving for some time, we strongly recommend you to sign up for this program. It consists of a knowledge review and a pool (or confined water) session. A supervised open water dive is an optional addition to the program.

Duration :	1 days
Cost Opt. 1 :	2,000 Baht knowledge review & pool session
Cost Opt. 2 :	2,500 Baht knowledge review & one open water dive from the beach
Cost Opt. 3 :	4,400 Baht knowledge review & two open water dive from day trip boat
Includes :	Free scuba diving equipment rental

PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course
This course is designed for divers with limited diving experience. By exploring special diving interests it improves your knowledge, skills and thereby you gain diving experience. The course includes five dives, Deep Dive and Underwater Navigator Dive is compulsory, the additional three dives you choose from the following list:
AWARE Fish Identification
Boat Diver
Drift Diver
Night Diver
Peak Performance Buoyancy
Underwater Naturalist
Digital Underwater Photographer

Minimum age :	12
Duration :	2 - 3 day
Cost Opt.1 :	8,600 Baht During Similan trip with Jonathan Cruiser
Cost Opt.2 :	10,500 Baht beach (3 dives) + one boat daytrip (2 dives)
Cost Opt.3 :	12,300 Baht two boat daytrips (five dives)
Includes :	Manual, certificate cost

Emergency First Response
To join this course you don’t have to be a certified diver. You will learn CPR and life saving techniques, skills important to know for everyone in every day life. The course is a requirement before signing up for the PADI Rescue Diver Course.

Minimum age :	None
Duration :	1 day
Cost :	5,000 Baht
Includes :	Manual, certificate cost

PADI Rescue Diver Course
Rescue Divers learn to look beyond themselves to consider the safety and well-being of other divers. Rescue training build your confidence and expands your knowledge about diving, increase your level of diving skills and make you more aware of what is happening around you. This course is highly recommended for all divers.
Note! To participate in the Rescue Course, you must within the last 24 month successfully have completed the Emergency First Response course (see above).

Minimum age :	12
Duration :	2 – 3 days
Cost Opt.1 :	9,500 Baht all water exercises from beach
Cost Opt. 2 :	11,400 Baht from beach and one boat day trip
Includes :	Manual, Diving Accident Management Work Slate, certificate cost

PADI Specialty Courses
The courses are design to give you an introduction to different types of diving. Here follows the specialty courses we offer.

Boat Diver Boat diving is not surprisingly one of the more popular dive activities. You reach the best dive sites in the area and you don't have to carry around heavy diving equipment. In Thailand and in many other countries, boat diving is the most common way of exploring the underwater world. After spending some time aboard, you soon will understand that there are many things you need to know about boats. In this course you learn about boat terminology, different types of dive boats, boat safety, emergency equipment for boat diving and many more useful thing.
Prerequisites	PADI Open Water Diver, Junior Open Water Diver or equivalent
1 day 2 boat dives	4,200 Baht on our Similan liveaboard 7,200 Baht on day trip boat from Phuket
Includes :	Manual, certificate cost
Drift Diver If you until now experienced current as something you have to fight against, this course will give you a whole new perspective. The Drift diving course grew out of the philosophy "if you can't beat them - join them". In Thailand as in many other countries, diving in current is fairly common. In this course you will learn how to take advantage of the current to save energy, air consumption and to fully enjoy the beautiful dives sites Similan has to offer.
Prerequisites	PADI Open Water Diver, Junior Open Water Diver or equivalent 12 year of age or older
1 day 2 boat dives	4,000 Baht only on our Similan liveaboard
Includes :	Certificate cost
Deep Diver As a fresh PADI Open Water Diver 18 meter/ 60 feet marks the depth limit to which you're qualified to dive. Soon you will realize that there are lots of interesting things to see below that depth. Down there it is different and you need additional training, the deep Deep Diver course is the answer. In this course you will learn deep diving planning, organization, procedures, techniques and hazards.
Prerequisites	PADI Adventure Diver or equivalent 15 year of age or older
2 days 4 boat dives	6,700 Baht on our Similan liveaboard 12,700 Baht on daytrip boat from Phuket

Includes :	Manual, certificate cost
Night Diver Think about a nocturnal stroll through a familiar park, a place you have seen many times during daytime, yet somehow different. At first it seems a little bit scary perhaps, but as soon as your eyes adjust to the dark, you relax and recognize familiar paths and trees. The same feeling will appear the first time you visit your favorite dive site at night, same same but different. Even at night the reef is very much alive and you will see marine species you never seen during daytime. In this course you learn how to plan a night dive, safety predures and about special equipment used for night diving.
Prerequisites	PADI Open Water Diver, Junior Open Water Diver or equivalent 12 year of age or older
2 days 3 boat dives	5,400 Baht only on our Similan liveaboard
Includes :	Manual, certificate cost
Peak Performance Buoyancy Ask any dive professional what specific skill separates an experienced from a less experienced diver, and you'll almost always get the same answer - buoyancy control. Divers who master buoyancy control move through the water gracefully, they seem to ascend, stop, hoover and descend at will with hardly a fin flick or hand wave. By contrast, those without such control constantly kick or wave to stay off the bottom. They constantly adjust their BCD's and wasting effort with every depth change - They may dive safely, but not efficiently. If you can control your buoyancy you save air and your dive will be more fun.
Prerequisites	PADI Open Water Diver, Junior Open Water Diver or equivalent 10 year of age or older
1 day 2 dives	4,000 Baht from the beach or on our Similan liveaboard 7,000 Baht on day trip boat from Phuket
Includes :	Certificate cost
Underwater Navigator Do you remember your first Open Water Dive? More then likely, you were thrilled with your first venture beyond confined water, but perhaps some what disoriented. After just a few turns you were completely lost, but surprisingly to you, your instructor knew exactly where you were all along. Underwater navigation is one of the diving skills you may think you don't need to master, until you really, really need it. If you are good at underwater navigation you will enjoy your dive even more, as you don't need to worry about where you are.
Prerequisites	PADI Open Water Diver, Junior Open Water Diver or equivalent 10 year of age or older
1-2 day 3 dives	5,400 Baht from the beach or on our Similan liveaboard 8,400 Baht on day trip boat (2 dives) & beach (1 dive)
Includes :	Manual, certificate cost
Digital Underwater Photographer Nowadays you find dozens of excellent digital cameras with underwater housing available on the market for affordable prices. With just a little bit of help, the digital break through has made it possible for everyone to take great photos under water. In this course you will learn about what you should look for when you buy U/W camera equipment, how to maintain the equipment in good condition, some basic photo editing in Photoshop and last but not least - simple techniqes to improve your photo skills.
1 day 2 dives	5,400 Baht incl. camera rental, only on our Similan liveaboard
Includes :	Manual, certificate cost

PADI Divemaster Course
The PADI Divemaster Course represents the first step in a career as a PADI professional.
With knowledge and skills learned in this course you will be qualified to:
- Supervise certified divers in shore-based and boat-based diving activities.
- Assist with training divers in PADI courses.
- Independently conduct specific PADI programs for certified divers and nondivers
(eg. Scuba Review, Discover Snorkeling & PADI Skin Diver course).
Your dive theory knowledge, water skills, rescue skills will be developed to the level necessary to enter the PADI Instructor Development Course.

The requirements for completion of this course are a total of 60 logged dives. To help our Divemaster students to achieve those dives, we offer them to join our Similan liveaboard M/V Jonathan Cruiser for free!

Minimum age :	18
Duration :	2 – 4 weeks
Cost :	30,000 Baht