Tag: Kata Beach

  • PADI Self-Reliant Specialty Diver Course (2024)

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    Become a Self-sufficient Diver to Increase Your Safety and Freedom While Enjoying Your Dive

    The purpose of the Self-Reliant Diver specialty course is to recognize and accept the role of the buddy system and its contributions to diver safety while identifying and developing self-reliance and independence while diving. Self-reliant diving doesn’t mean leaving your buddy at the first chance. Properly practiced, diving independently is a disciplined form of scuba rooted in careful planning and self-sufficiency. It requires the proper gear, training and attitude.

    This PADI course covers when diving alone may be applicable, and the need to compensate for those situations, including dive planning, life support system readiness, adaptive training, equipment and responsibility.

    There are two reasons for an experienced diver to take the Self-Reliant diver course:

    1. To develop the skills of planning and carrying out dives without a partner when preferred or necessary.
    2. To sharpen skills of diving self-reliance, making the diver a stronger partner in a dive pair or team.

    This course is an introduction to self-reliant diving that helps student divers develop the skills, knowledge and techniques necessary to rely on themselves first, whether or not they are diving with a partner, including:

    • The value and application of the buddy system.
    • The philosophy of, and motivation for, diving without a partner.
    • Potential risks of diving alone, and how to manage those risks.
    • The value of equipment redundancy and what back-up equipment is needed.
    • Dive planning and gas management.

    Prerequisite

    to qualify for the Self-Reliant Diver course, an individual must:

    1. Be certified as a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or have a qualifying certification from another training organization.
    2. Have a minimum 100 logged dives.
    3. Be 18 years of age or older.
    4. Successfully complete a dive skills assessment by a PADI Self- Reliant Diver Specialty Instructor.

    Equipment Requirements – Student Diver

    • Standard dive equipment (BCD, Regulator, fins, mask, exposure suit, dive computer or depth gauge & timing device)
    • Surface marker buoy, such as a delayed surface marker buoy (DSMB) or lift bag with at least 30 meters of line
    • Redundant gas source – pony cylinder, twin cylinders with isolation valve or Sidemount configuration. Redundant gas supply must be configured so that the diver can access it with one hand **
    • Redundant depth gauge and bottom timer, or dive computer
    • Redundant surface signaling devices (both visual and audible)
    • Knife/cutting tool (except where locally prohibited)
    • Slate and pencil
    • Back-up mask (recommended)

    Training Dives: 3 dives

    Course Duration: minimum 1.5 day, recommended 2 days

    Course Price (including PADI certification upon successful completion and redundant gas source rental **):  from 12,900 THB

    Not include: boat fees (if diving from boat trip), Dive Accident Insurance and any repeat skills training session to meet course certification requirements. 

    Advance Booking only. So, are you up for the challenge? Please contact us to inquire about our PADI Trainer schedule availability via our Contact Page or Google Map Business Page.

     

  • Care & Share For Kata Project: 50% off Kata Beach Dives

    Care & Share For Kata Project: 50% off Kata Beach Dives

    SAVE 50% off our Shore Dives for the all April weekends during Thailand’s Songkran Holidays when you support our local community vendors and businesses. To receive the 50% Discount Offer, all you have to do is make a purchase at any of our “locally owned” businesses in Kata Beach, then post/tag/share a “WEFIE photo” of you and the vendor/staff/seller to any of our social media page with the hashtag #careandshareKataBeach.
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    Google: https://g.page/RumblefishAdventure
    IG: @rumblefishThailand

    Kata Bay Shore Dives Rate
    (per diver, includes all equipment, expert local dive guides)
    * 1,390 THB (one dive) [Care & Share Rate: 695 THB]
    * 1,990 THB (two dives) [Care & Share Rate: 995 THB]
    * 2,500 THB (2 day dives & 1 night dive) [Care & Share Rate: 1,250 THB]

    Not yet certified and like to try it out? Sign-up for our PADI Discover Scuba Experience, learn privately with our experienced PADI Instructors then scuba dive to see the amazing marine life at Kata Reef!
    * 1,900 THB (one Discover Scuba Experience dive) [Care & Share Discount Rate: 1,450 THB]

    Terms & Conditions
    To receive the 50% Discount Offer, all you have to do is buy/sleep/eat with any of our local businesses in Kata Beach, then share a “WEFIE photo” of yourself to our Fb Page or Instagram or Google business:

    • With purchased food/snacks/drinks from a local vendor on Kata Beach, or
    • With a restaurant wait staff where you dine or a masseuse where you got a massage, or
    • With a store staff where you shop (excluding corporate chained stores such as 7-11, Lotus, SuperCheap, Makro or BigC) or
    • With a hotel | resort staff where you stay. You get 50% DISCOUNT OFF your dives with us for the weekend at Kata.
    • Our “Care & Share” project is open to all everyone, regardless of nationalities.
  • Phuket Save the Sea Project

    Phuket Save the Sea Project

    Join us and the residents of Kata Karon District from 1 – 7 April 2021 for a “Dive Festival” supporting the small businesses in this hardest hit community. Below are the diving activities planned for Kata Beach during this amazing week.

    Underwater Photo Marathon

    •กิจกรรม : การแข่งขันถ่ายภาพใต้น้้าต่อเนื่อง 7 วัน เพื่อส่งประกวดภาพถ่ายใต้น้้าที่สวยงามและตรงหัวข้อ “อนุรักษ์ทะเลภูเก็ต” ชิงเงินรางวัลและของที่ระลึกสุดพิเศษ

    Activities: A 7-day continuous underwater photography competition to submit beautiful and relevant underwater photography contests. "Phuket Marine Conservation" winners include prizes and special souvenirs.
    •Date: 1st-7th April 2021
    •Location : Kata beach
    
    •เงื่อนไขการเข้าร่วมกิจกรรม :(สาหรับผู้เข้าร่วมการแข่งขัน)
    Terms and Condition for Participate
    1.สมัครเข้าร่วมการแข่งขันระหว่างวันที่ 15-28 มีนาคม 2564
    1. Sign-up for the contest dates: 15-28 March 2021
    
    2.รายงานตัวเข้าร่วมการแข่งขันตามขั้นตอนดังนี้
    -โพสต์ภาพของผู้เข้าแข่งขันก่อนเริ่มท้ากิจกรรม
    -ระบุชื่อ-นามสกุล/ Check-In แหล่งด้าน้้า
    -ใส่ #phuketsavetheseaproject
    2. Enter your photos into the competition by the following steps. - Post pictures for the contest before the challenge begins. 
    - Enter your first name-last name / Check-In source - then use the hashtag #phuketsavetheseaproject
    
    3.ส่งรูปภาพที่ดีที่สุดและตรงหัวข้อมากที่สุดภายในวันที่ 7 เมษายน 2564 ให้แก่คณะกรรมการจากนิตยสาร อสท. เป็นผู้ตัดสิน
    3. Submit your best and most relevant pictures by April 7, 2021 will be selected by judges from the CAT Magazine.
    
    4.ททท.ส้านักงานภูเก็ต จะประกาศผลผู้ชนะเลิศในวันที่ 12 เมษายน 2564โดยผู้ชนะเลิศจะได้ของรางวัลและได้รับการตีพิมพ์ภาพถ่ายในนิตยสาร อสท. ฉบับเดือนพฤษภาคม 2564
    4. TAT Phuket Office will announce the winner of the competition on April 12, 2021. The winners will receive their prizes and their photos will be published in the May 2021 issue of the อสท magazine.

    Diving Fun & Fair

    กิจกรรม : การจัดกิจกรรม Phuket –Save the Sea Project ซึ่งประกอบด้วยกิจกรรมด้าน้้าเพื่อการอนุรักษ์และการด้าน้้าเพื่อนนันทนาการ
    •วัน-เวลา : 3-4 เมษายน 2564 / 10.00 น. –22.00น.
    •สถานที่จัดงาน : หาดกะตะฝั่งคลองปากบาง
    •กิจกรรมต่างๆภายในงาน

    1.กิจกรรมด้าน้้าเก็บขยะ
    2.กิจกรรมด้าน้้ากลางคืน (Night Dive)
    3.กิจกรรมรวมพลคน Freediving
    4.กิจกรรมเก็บขยะแลกไอศกรีม
    5.กิจกรรม Workshop
    6.การออกร้านของผู้ประกอบการร้านด้าน้้าหน้าหาดกะตะ
    7.ประติมากรรมขยะทะเลสร้างสรรค์
    8.การออกร้านอาหารแบบ Food Truck
    9.ดนตรี
    10.กิจกรรมอื่นๆ

    Contact us For information or Reservation

    แจ้งให้เราทราบวันที่คุณต้องการดำน้ำ (ไทย/Eng)
    สนใจติดต่อ: 093 3434910 | 098 7458650
    LINE/WhatsApp: +66 933434910 | e: dive@rumblefishadventure.com
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  • Protecting Our Reef & Marine Life

    Protecting Our Reef & Marine Life

    6th March 2020 – After 2 years of lobbying and pursuing various government agencies, we finally got a Reef Buoy Line back around Kata Reef. With the support of local professional divers, Kata communities and the Phuket Rescue Center at Kata Beach, 60 orange buoys line, approximately 250 meters long, were tied down to protect the reef.

    Since the pandemic has closed borders to Thailand, the reef has been thriving over the past year, despite increased “bad fishing” practices. With the economy crashing in Phuket, Kata and Karon towns had seen a lost of almost 80% in population and close to 90% of the businesses shuttered doors. Kata sub-district is one of the hardest hit community in Thailand due to increased travel restrictions and borders closure. When the borders open again, you can plan your vacation by booking a five star resort and charting a private flight from Jettly.

    To ensure that our seas, beaches and coral reefs are not getting abandoned, we extended our Care & Share Initiative to also support the protection of our marine environment. With the support any divers coming to learn to dive, taking PADI Dive courses or joining in our dive trips, we share our small earnings to raise funding for regular projects in Dive Against Debris, recovery of deadly discarded ghost nets, beach and reef clean-ups.

  • Kata Reef is Thailand Best Beach Dive Site

    Kata Reef is Thailand Best Beach Dive Site

    One of Thailand’s top beach Scuba dive sites, Kata Beach North Reef in Phuket is opened for 6 months and the diving here has been spectacular since 2001. With easy walk-in conditions, 4 dive sites, relaxed shallow dives, Kata Reef lets divers take their time to take photos of some of the coolest and weirdest creatures in the Andaman Sea. In our first week, we have found Marble shrimp, juvenile Reef cuttlefish, White spotted hermit crab and our resident turtle.

    From 1st November until the end of April, we’ll do daily day and night dives, certified beginner or experienced divers all are welcome. Price: 1,490 THB (inclusive of full set Scuba equipment rental) for 1 long dive (60-80 minutes) and 1,600 THB for night dive.

    Bring your own Starry night Octopusequipment? discount 250 THB

    See more live up-to-date sightings of marine life on our Rumblefish Adventure Facebook page.

     

     

  • PADI Advanced & Deep Diver Program (2018)

    PADI Advanced & Deep Diver Program (2018)

    Gain confidence to explore beyond the entry level limit! We welcome Phuket best months of dive conditions with a great combination training program for the avid divers looking to gain more practical training for the next adventures.  You can follow the lure of the deep… There’s something exciting and mysterious about exploring deeper dive sites while scuba diving. Sometimes it’s a wreck that attracts you below 18 meters/60 feet, and on wall dives it may be a giant fan or sponge. Whatever it is, to scuba dive with confidence at depths down to 40 meters/130 feet, you should take the PADI Advanced and Deep Diver Specialty courses.

    Program: PADI ADV+DEEP Diver

    Duration: 3 days

    Training dives: 8 in open water, 1 confined water session

    Certification gain: PADI Advanced Open Water, PADI Deep Diver

    Program Price: 17,900 THB

    Inclusions:  2 PADI Certifications, PADI Advanced Open Water eManual Online, PADI Deep Diver Manual, Rental: full Set Scuba Equipment, dive computer & Specialty equipment, Insurance, transfer to/from accommodation to
    Chalong Pier (within Kata, Karon or Patong area). Dive sites include: King Cruiser Wreck & Sharks Point Marine Sanctuary Area, Raya Noi & Yai Islands and Thailand’s #1 shore dive site, Kata Reef (weather permitting during Summer season).

    Book and confirm early, FREE 4 nights in our Divers’ Mixed Dorm.

    Optional add-on: PADI Nitrox Diver Course (save 20%), PADI Night Adventure Dive (save 25%), overnight trip to Similans Marine Park (save 10%), Hostel accommodation (save 50%).

    As always, we have affordable ‘room n dives’ package for our adventurous travelers, ensuring to meet all budgets at our popular Rumblefish Hostel in Kata Beach.

    Valid for 1st April – 30th December 2018. Accommodation is depending on availability and not guaranteed without confirmation. Price is not available for any further discounts, so please do not ask!

    Dive with our PADI Pro team for the best in the industry for safety (zero accident), great dive training (no complaint) and fun!

    Click here to email us or make a booking!

  • More Dives with PADI eLearning®

    PADI TouchStart Your PADI Course anytime! Whether you want to learn to scuba dive or are already a scuba diver who is looking for a flexible way to fit another dive course into your busy schedule, PADI’s online scuba programs are the way to go. You can get started immediately with the knowledge development portion of the course and work at your own pace using our recommended PADI Diver Touch™ or the PADI eLearning® system. These convenient, interactive study options allow you to learn anytime and anywhere, with or without continuous internet connection, and complete the academic requirements before leaving for your holidays. Start and complete all of your PADI Open Water Course academic from the comfort of your home; your vacation and holidays time should be spent diving and relaxing instead of having to study!  Click here for more info and sign-up.

  • Diving in Phuket Summer Season Deals

      Awesome diving conditions opened our Phuket 2015 Summer Season. With El Nino continues to keep the West Coast of Thailand dry and calm, our day trips to all local sites have been easy and relaxed. Leopard sharks return to Phi Phi Marine Park, and they are being sighted again at Shark Point Marine Sanctuary, and even Raya Noi Island. Green turtles, blacktip reef sharks, swirling school of thousands snappers, seahorses, frogfish and more are seen regularly. Plus with a lot less travelers, prices for hotels and resorts in Phuket are well within budget of all travelers to enjoy the comfort, food and nightlife the island has to offer. Come join us for a few days and spoil yourself!OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Daily day trips for all level of divers to Phi Phi Le Marine Park & Koh Doc Mai (3 dives), Raya Noi & Yai Islands (3 dives) price at 3,700 THB/diver. And for the experienced divers, King Cruiser Wreck & Shark Point Marine Sanctuary Area (3 dives) price only 3,400 THB/diver. Contact us for booking. Great deals on Accommodation now in Kata central area, just a short stroll to the beach:
    • Capannina Inn (***, western designed room, roof-top swimming pool, Phuket’s top Italian restaurant on-site, owned and managed by Mario, the famous chef of Capannina Italian Restaurant fame)
    • Sugar Marina Resort – Surf (****, opened in mid-2014, well appointed modern room, great location in central Kata, Thais hospitality and service, easy strolls to all activities and Kata Beach)
    • The Beach Heights Resort (****, New resort, Thais hospitality and service, nice western style rooms accommodation)
    • Phuket Chaba Hotel (**, Thais hospitality and service, nice western style room accommodation, beautiful outdoor pool area)
    • Jinta Andaman Guesthouse (*, Thais hospitality and service, nice owner, good cafe with reasonable prices, clean and nice private rooms and dorms for backpackers)
    Or sign-up for our super fun PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course and get 2 days of diving, training to dive deeper on wreck, Nitrox and more. Standard course price only 10,900 THB [325.00 $US Approx.]