LIVEABOARD & DAY DIVING IN PHUKET THAILAND
 SIMILAN SURIN RICHELIEU ROCK - SOUTH ANDAMAN LIPE TARUTAO
SCUBA DIVING AND KAYAKING WITH MV ANDAMAN SEAFARER 1

Seafarer Divers Phuket has been in the Thailand diving industry since 1979
PADI 5-STAR DIVE CENTER S-2281 (1985)
Seafarer Divers Phuket is the oldest PADI diving center in Thailand since 1985

GENERAL INFORMATION FOR DIVERS AND STUDENTS

SEAFARER DIVERS PHUKET & MV ANDAMAN SEAFARER 1

Seafarer Divers Co LTD, Seafarr Divers Phuket Co Ltd and MV Andaman Seafarer 1 are insured in Thailand with "Bangkok Insurance (Thailand) Company" as a professional dive center as well as an inbound and outbound  dive tour-operator with a travel insurance policy covering up to a 1,000,000 Baht (+/-25.000 €uro) per accident.

- We strongly recommend our customers to purchase travel insurance to cover emergency medical expenses, personal liability, trip cancellation and delayed departure, baggage insurance, personal liability, capital death and disability following a prospective accident.

- We suggest to all divers to sign up for an extra dive travel insurance such as DAN https://www.daneurope.org/en/home

- Divers must show their dive certifications and logbooks and sign a waiver of claims before boarding a day dive boat or a liveaboard vessel.

- Buddy system is mandatory on all day dive trips and liveaboards and the divers should have a dive computer and a surface buoy per buddy team at least.

- Diving conditions in the Andaman Sea around Phuket or during a liveaboard dive cruise are not like diving inside a lagoon.... Strong currents (moon) and wind (December to February) may change the quality and the safety of the dives; therefore all certified divers must be confident in the water or get additional training before booking dive trips or liveaboards. November until the middle of December as well March and April are two periods with less wind than the period from the middle of December until the end of February.

- Divemaster/Instructor supervision is provided on our day dive trips and liveaboard with local dive guides but the service of a private Divemaster/Instructor guiding during each dive is only provided on request prior to the day dive trip or liveaboard and will be charged an extra fee per diver.

- Seafarer Divers Co Ltd and Seafarer Divers Phuket Co Ltd provide tanks and weights belt only on day dive trips or liveaboard dive cruises.

- Divers must bring their personal dive equipment such as fins, mask, snorkel, BCD, regulator, dive computer, surface buoy, dive suit (2-3 mm) and torch for night dive. Dive equipment may be rented or bought from Seafarer Divers dive center at Chalong Bay Marina before boarding.

- Diver owning a regulator with Din system must bring a yoke adaptor to fit our K-valves. Din adaptor may be rented or bought at dive center of Seafarer Divers Phuket.

NOTE: Seafarer Divers Phuket does not rent dive torch or U/W camera.

MINIMUM DIVING LEVEL REQUIRED FOR DIVING WITH MV ANDAMAN SEAFARER 1

- For divers' comfort and safety, the drop-offs and pick-ups of buddy teams are made with our 4.9m dinghy equipped with a ladder and an outboard engine of 40 HP. Each dinghy rotation takes 4-5 divers at once. That way, fish are not scared and each diver will get more chance for better encounters.

- Divers must be comfortable in water and be certified at least CMAS 2* Diver or PADI Advanced, equivalence or higher levels with at least 30 logged dives.

- Divers may dive in buddy teams of 2-3 divers.

- Most of our divers booked on a liveaboard dive cruise with MV Andaman Seafarer 1 are experienced ones and are certified CMAS 2* or 3* Diver, PADI Advanced, PADI Rescue, Divemaster, Instructor or equivalence from other diving associations with hundreds of logged dives and most of them are keen underwater photographers.

- Divemaster/Instructor supervision is provided during our liveaboard dive cruises aboard MV Andaman Seafarer 1 but the service of a private Divemaster/Instructor guiding during each dive is only provided on request prior the liveaboard and will be charged an extra fee per diver.

- CMAS 1* Diver, PADI Open Water Diver or equivalent certified diver who can not dive as a buddy diver with their friends will have to book the service of a professional Divemaster/Instructor guiding them during all dives or plan a CMAS 2* Diver course and/or a PADI Advanced course with a PADI Instructor during day dive trips and liveaboard dive cruises.

- The PADI Nitrox course can be taught during day dives.

HOT PROMOTION: FREE PADI Advanced Diver Course during all liveaboard dive trips with MV Andaman Seafarer 1

PADI ADVANCED COURSE - 5 dives
- Per student during liveaboard dive trips with MV Andaman Seafarer 1: 0,000 Baht
PADI Advanced Diver training course do not include digital teaching materials and certification fee with PADI (3,200 Baht) and the dive equipment