Manta Dive Phuket is a Diving Center providing Scuba diving courses base in Rawai, south of Phuket Island. 1 km from Nai Harn beach and only 5 km from Chalong pier (boat departure).
Our friendly, widely experienced, customer and fun oriented Team wants to make your diving holiday in Thailand turn into a truly fantastic experience. We’d like to welcome you as guests and see you return as friends.
Either you have never dove before, or you are already certified diver we have a diving course to suit your level. From try scuba diving the opportunity to try diving for the first time and feel the freedom to be underwater that just diver knows, or enroll a PADI or SSI Open Water Diver Course in Phuket, the first certification level and become a real diver.
Certified divers will enjoy the Advanced Open Water Course which brings them to explore the underwater world deeper (30m) and practice more diving skills during five greats adventures dives in Phuket, Koh PhiPhi and Racha Islands.
We also provide Professional training as the Divemaster Course and bring you ready for supervise divers and assist Diving Instructors to teach. The Divemaster training is the previous step to the Instructor Development Course (IDC) and starts a career.
But what is Freediving? Actually any breath-hold dive into the blue without diving apparatus is Freediving. It is more fun and athletic than Skin diving or Snorkeling while the equipment are only slightly different. It can be both very exhilarating and meditative at the same time. You will enter the water more quietly that all you hear are your heart beats and the sound of the ocean that make you feel like you are becoming one with it, with that one breath.
As the interest and participation in scuba diving is on the increase, images of black rubber-clad men immersing themselves in the abyss, whilst groups of ladies anxiously look on, are thankfully a vision of the past. Nowadays the ladies are more likely to be scuba diving buddies! Diving couples have been coming to enjoy the tropical waters here for quite some time, and the kids are not left out at all.
PADI Bubble Maker and Seal Team, give boys and girls aged eight years upwards the opportunity, under professional guidance, to enjoy an exciting scuba diving experience whilst learning some cool underwater tricks into the bargain. Bubblemaker program takes an hour or two, and Seal Team program lasts 1 to 3 days in the safe surroundings of a swimming pool, and are a great way to get the youngsters hooked, either with or without their parents in tow! These fabulous PADI scuba diving introductions to the underwater world are a great way for kids to share valuable learning experiences.
Visit and explore the Similan Islands with one of our great Liveaboard trip. From 2 days to 6 days you will dive the best dive site of the Similan National Park. Similan is a paradise for divers and snorkelers with the crystal clear water and colorful reef.
Join a trip more than two days and get the opportunity to dive “Richelieu Rock” certainly the most extraordinary dive site of Thailand discovered by Jacques Yves Cousteau. In 2015-2016 many whale shark and Manta Ray have been spotted by divers on dive site like Koh Bon, Koh Tachai and Richelieu rock. Now it can be your turn…
Phuket diving Thailand – The islands and beaches of Phuket hold the greatest appeal for scuba diving enthusiasts. Whether you’re looking for Phuket diving day trips, diving in Ko Phi Phi & Racha, there is plenty of choices. The Thailand’s Andaman coastline, boasts fabulous scenery, dazzling beaches and breath-taking underwater experiences for scuba divers. The largest and most well-known of the islands is Phuket, the “Pearl of The Andaman Sea” which has attracted tourists and those passionate about scuba diving in Phuket for a number of years.
Phuket is also the largest hub of scuba diving in Thailand and the main base for Similan Islands Liveaboard diving. The best season for scuba diving in Phuket, Racha and Phi Phi Islands as well Similan Islands is between October and May. Though for diving day trips, you can dive all year round in Phuket.
Phuket diving day trips – Phuket’s offshore dive sites are mostly to the East with Phi Phi Islands and South with Racha Islands (a.k.a Raya), and can be reached daily by our yacht MV Mermaid between 2 and 2 ½ hours. They are all well worth the journey, but two in particular – Shark Point and Anemone Reef stand out as being special in terms of the abundance of marine life. In the area don’t miss the most exciting wreck diving at King Cruiser. Further south, the coastline at the Phi Phi Islands offers shallow fringing reefs around impressive limestone formations – ranging in size from underwater pillars to whole islands. Some of the best dive spots in Thailand are to be found here – Hin Daeng and Hin Muang, however, by their remoteness, they are reachable only by private dive trip.
Manta Dive Phuket offers a diverse selection of excursions and outings to Phuket in addition to our underwater diving services at the request of our guests. All these activities are not organized by us directly and it is not our employees who supervise the outputs. We have tested this among all that exists in Phuket and have selected the following activities because the services offered are very good.
The mission of Manta Dive Phuket is to assist both divers and non-divers during their diving experience here in Phuket, in the safest and most thrilling way possible, with terrific and impressive coaching as well as equipment hire!