Wreck Diver
Wreck Diver – PADI Specialty Course – Age 15+, 2 days, 4 dives – 13,000 THB

You drift down and pass through a window into the past. As you near the bottom, a recognizable shape begins to form. First, you see a straight line, then a round window. Next, a ship materializes in front of you. As you look at the wreck, past and the present meet. Whether sunk intentionally or tragically, whether a sunken ship, a plane or an automobile, the call of wrecks is nearly irresistible to divers.

Through participation in the PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course, you gain the skills, knowledge and procedures you need to answer the call of wreck diving. If you’re aged 15+ and have already completed the PADI Advanced Course (or equivalent), in general good health and fitness, and are not suffering from a cold or ear infection, you should be eligible to become a certified PADI Wreck Diver. Please check the health requirements for this course.

When you join the PADI Wreck Diver Specialty Course with Narima Diving you will dive the King Cruiser Wreck and explore the catamaran steel wreck that has now evolved into a fantastic artificial reef, which is home to a huge variety of marine life, who seek shelter within it.

The purpose of the PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course is to familiarize divers with the skills, knowledge, planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems, hazards and excitement of diving on wrecks.
The Wreck Diver Specialty course is intended as a safe, supervised introduction to wreck diving, with emphasis on fun and safety.

The goals of the PADI Wreck Diver Course are to:

• Demonstrate practical wreck diving knowledge, including recognizing and avoiding potential hazards, and planning procedures that make wreck diving fun.
• Explain the historical value of wrecks, social and legal issues surrounding that value, and describe some of wreck diving’s implications, including the pros and cons of removing artifacts from wrecks.
• Plan and organize dives to safely explore wrecks found within depths and conditions as good as or better than those he has been trained in
• Identify the hazards of wreck penetration diving and demonstrate the techniques and procedures required to minimize those hazards.

During the 4 Open Water Dives segment participants are required to prepare their equipment, plan the dives and demonstrate good diving skills in that environment:

Dive 1
Swim on the outside of a wreck, maintaining proper buoyancy control, and identifying and avoiding potential hazards.
Navigate on a wreck so that the ascent point can be located without surfacing, with the assistance of the instructor.
Maintain neutral buoyancy and body position so that the bottom is avoided.

Dive 2
Swim along the outside of a wreck, in a buddy team, identifying and avoiding potential hazards.
With a buddy, map a wreck (or portion of a wreck), determining approximate size and marking points of interest.
Survey a wreck for a penetration dive and evaluate possible entrances
Navigate on a wreck, returning to the ascent point without surfacing.

Dive 3
Demonstrate the deployment and retrieval of a penetration line, for practice, on the outside of a wreck, while working in buddy teams.
Swim along the deployed penetration line so as to maintain contact with the line without kicking up silt and holding on to a dive light.
Navigate on a wreck so that the ascent point can be located without surfacing.

Dive 4
Determine air supply and penetration limits.
Swim without causing excessive silt disturbance.
Maintain contact with the line.
Use a dive light while following a penetration line.
Navigate on a wreck so that the ascent point can be located without surfacing.

Courses start every day, at a time to suit you. You can book now, or come in to see see us while you’re on holiday in Ko Lanta. We offer free transfers to and from your resort in Ko Lanta for any of our dive courses or daily dive trips.

We run PADI Wreck Diver Courses in English, German, Swedish and Thai. We run semi-supported courses in Danish, Norwegian, French, Finnish, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Thai. Please let us know if you require course materials in another language and we will order them for you.

The PADI Wreck Diver Course costs 13,000 THB. At Narima Diving, our scuba certification courses include any course materials such as manuals, free scuba diving equipment rental and even a free t-shirt!.
Please be aware however that there may be a fuel surcharge to visit some of the further away dive sites if you choose to dive these sites during your course.

All our courses are taught in strict adherence to PADI Standards by our highly experienced professional Instructors and prices include PADI certification fees. On the dive boats, we supply breakfast, lunch, drinking water, soft drinks and fruit. We also provide a selection of fruit juices and towels on each trip.

We keep group sizes small to ensure you receive maximum benefit from your tuition (maximum 4 students per Instructor). This also minimises negative impact on the reefs. Our emphasis is on safety, fun and personal service within a relaxed and stress-free environment.

Beyond the PADI Wreck Diver Course…
The PADI Wreck Diver Specialty Course certification is only the beginning! You can use this course to complement any of our other PADI Speciality Courses:

Deep Diver
Enriched Air (NITROX)
U/W Digital Photography
Underwater Videography
Whale Shark Awareness
Coral Reef Conservation
Underwater Naturalist
AWARE-Fish-ID
Peak Performance Buoyancy

Did you know that the PADI Wreck Diver Specialty Course counts as one of five Specialty course certifications required for the PADI Master Scuba Diver certification?
Your next step may be to become a PADI Rescue Diver, a PADI Master Scuba Diver or PADI Divemaster.

LIQUID LENSE – our Underwater Digital Imaging Academy offers longer Underwater Photography and Videography courses, aimed at people who want to take Underwater Digital Imaging a step further.

Or you can just keep diving Ko Lanta…! Narima Diving is ideally located in the South of Ko Lanta to offer shorter journey times on daily dive trips to some of the best dive sites in Thailand. Dive the famous dive sites of Hin Daeng & Hin Muang, or visit Ko Haa, Ko Rok,or Ko Phi Phi.