New big boat Lila braking all records !

Heidi and BangNui ready to jump into the water Captain Tee sailing the boat Upstairs deck of Lila Gearing up on our comfortable base deck

Since three weeks we have been taking our new big boat Lila out with our divers to our great diving and snorkeling destinations. Everybody finds the dive boat really nice and comfortable and spacious. Some of the remarks are: "greatest boat ever", "like to stay longer on the boat" and more. Our traveling time from our beach to Koh Ha is a little over 1 hour now, which is almost half the time of before. Last trip to Hin Daeng it only took 2,5 hour to get there !! Normally boats take 4 hours to get there ! Right now (today 25th of November) Lars is making electricity on the boat, so we can move the compressor on it. This will help us with less unloading. Do you want to join us on the boat or have more information ? Please look in a couple of days under Dive Boats.

Lars proudly standing on the front of the boat Lila

Learn scuba diving in Thailands tropical waters!

Did you always wanted to get closer to the fish ? Ever wondered about the under water world and what it looks like ? What does scuba diving feel like ? You don't know what you are missing ? Breath air under water, feel weightless like an astronaut when you are scuba diving ! Learn to dive from Padi diving professionals. A truely life changing Padi divers under water at Koh Haa, around Koh Lanta, Thailand experience ! We are Palm Beach Divers, a 5 Star PADI Instructor Development (scuba dive) Center on Koh Lanta, Thailand. Try it out for free and then decide !

Our international scuba diving staff will teach you scuba diving according to european scuba dive standards, but in nice hot water with beautiful corals and fish !! We are the only Padi dive center that has their dive boats located on the most beautiful beach of Lanta, Pra Ae (or Longbeach) and we sail directly from here to Koh Ha and Phi Phi. Our swimming pool is the ocean straight in front of the dive resort. You will find great restaurants (Thai, European, cheap and more expensive) and small relax bars straight in front of the dive resort aswell. For some good parties, you will have to walk for about 5 till 10 minutes, but this is better, because then you can sleep in your bungalow and party when you feel like it.

Padi divers practising hand signals for their Padi Open Water Diver Course in the swimming pool together with their Padi instructor Padi open water diver course students, just before they dive into Open Water for their Open Water Diver Course around Koh Lanta, Thailand

Experience the whole atmosphere of doing your Padi Open Water and Padi Advanced Courses on a beautiful tropical island (Lanta, in Thailand), great discounted dive packaging, student diving prices, experienced Padi scuba dive instructors, many new friends, beach life, a party some times, great sun sets, fun & excitement !! Change your life now and experience the difference !

If you would like to study scuba diving theory in your own country, before you get here and then straight away dive when you get here: click on the Elearning Link.We are a Go ECO Padi 5 Star Instructor Development (dive) Center and are certifying all Padi diving courses with an AWARE Shark card.This means that from every Padi dive or AWARE course 10 US Dollars goes to the anti-shark finning and shark protect campaign of Project AWARE ! Enjoy your scuba diving, enjoy the sharks and protect them at the same time !

NEW: You can now give the Padi Elearning Access Pass as a present to your friend or family. Think about the following occasions: birthdays, graduations, as a thank you, Valentine's day, Christmas, mothers day, fathers day, Earth Day or any other occasion you see fit. Give your friends / family the gift of starting to scuba dive or continuing to scuba dive. Now available: Padi Open Water Diver Course and Padi Advanced Open Water Diver Course online.

NEW : Padi Nitrox Diver Course online with Padi's Elearning in English !!! Do your Nitrox online now before you get here !

NEW: Body Glove, in partnership with PADI, Aqualung and Sport Diver Magazine, are thrilled to announce the release of the movie, THE DROP ZONE: Tahiti. It is one of the greatest surfing and scuba diving adventures of a life time.

Experience Tahiti like never before, from scuba diving to surfing and back again. Follow professional surfers and divers Holly Beck, Alex Gray and Cheyne Magnusson on a unique journey both above and below the surface. Throughout DROP ZONE you will see the crew explore vibrant coral reefs, dive with sharks, surf the sporadic but awesome waves of Teahupoo and get to know the locals. An entirely new world is opened up to these three young surfers and watch as it changes their perspective on the sport of SCUBA diving.The world premiere of The Drop Zone is Wednesday October 22nd at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas during the annual Dive Trade Show (DEMA).

Congratulations to our new Padi instructors ! Padi Instructors Development Course and Instructor Examination on Koh Lanta, Thailand

Congratulations Padi scuba dive instructors !

Congratulations to our newly certified Padi scuba dive instructors :

Pan, Harley & Marina

Do you have enough of the European weather ? Does the word crisis bother you ? Or do you just want to have the best out of life ? Change your career or life style: start with one of our Padi scuba diving Internships now !

Find out more!

Beach Clean Up on Earth Day 2009 !

The International Language School from Long beach and Palm Beach Divers cleaned up the beach of Long Beach on the 19th of September for Earth Day. Although the weather was rainy and cloudy, we had around 15 enthusiastic cleaners on the beach, students, teachers, instructors, both foreigners and Thai together cleaning up the amazing amount of plastic and single shoes (... ?).

Thank you for helping, it looks a lot cleaner now !

Palm Beach Divers

AWARE Beach Cleanup 2009

Try Dives in the pool !

Palm Beach Divers offered young and old a try diving in the swimming pool. Everybody was very enthusiastic and wanted to dive straight away after !

Video's of the Padi dive center of Palm Beach Divers on Koh Lanta, in Thailand, and fish, by A (Thawatchai Janpeng), our Padi dive master and Under water videographer.

Other scuba diving news...

* 2009 starts of with Whalesharks and manta sitings on Hin Daeng and Koh Haa (most seen in April /May). Come and join us to see these amazing giants, while diving.

Whaleshark swimming around Hin Daeng and Hin Muang, around Koh Lanta, Thailand Manta flying over Palm Beach Divers' divers on Hin Muang and Hin Daeng, Thailand

* Cheap airline tickets to Thailand, check them out here !! Use the latest offers to come and dive in Thailand !

Fly directly to Krabi or Phuket and make your trip shorter. Watch out for the amount of luggage you are allowed to bring !

Other airlines

South African airways

Swissair

Emirates

* In 2006 and 2008 Palm Beach Divers received the Environmental Achievement Award from Project AWARE. We are proud that project AWARE recognizes the efforts we put into preserving our environment and hope to make our business even more environmental friendly and less wasteful in the future. Newest projects in this area for the season 2009 and 2010 are: Shark AWAREness Speciality Diver and Snorkelers Courses, certifying all Padi and AWARE courses with the AWARE Shark card and the "Ban the plastic bag"- campaign (see below)

Why should we all ban the plastic bag ? Please have a look at the below file:

* In October 2009 Palm Beach Divers received recognition for being a Profesional outlet of Aqualung, by Aqua Master and Aqualung together: we are now an Aqualung Partnercenter !! From now on we will be able to deliver a greater customer service in the future, by having newer scuba diving equipment for sale in the shop, by having better trained staff to inform you about technical and promotional details about Aqualung scuba diving equipment.

* In April 2009 Lisa received from Padi Asia Pacific the Silver status as a Padi Course Director, because she trained more then 35 Padi Scuba Diving Professional Certifications and having a continuing education ratio of more then 60% in 2009.

Next Padi IDC course starts in August 2009. Get your information now !

* We are open all year - unlike many other dive schools on Lanta we are open all year round. Our seasons are changing, weatherwise, our rainy season has come early this year, end of March. So we are expecting to have brilliant weather around in July and August already. Therefore we have made a special Low season Offer.