Children and snorkeling and diving
Palm Beach Divers on Koh Lanta, in Thailand, offers dive and snorkel trips and Padi scuba dive and snorkel courses especially for children. Take your whole family for a fun, exiting, educational experience ! We also offer land based courses like AWARE and EFR, for children that do not like water.
What do children like: entertainment, activities, exitement and new things !
What do children find difficult: sitting still in a classroom, what is dangerous and they have a short attention span.
What do we offer:
* short classroom sessions (with video)
* small dive and snorkel groups , so the children get full attention
* environmental and intellectual input (the children learn something, while being active)
* a safe, responsible and fun time (100% supervised)
What age can do what ?
0 - 2 years |
nothing, not insured on boats in Thailand |
2 - 8 years |
Padi Discover Snorkeling , Snorkeling , AWARE Conservation Course (clean up incombination with snorkelling) or AWARE Reef Course , AWARE Kids , Padi Shark AWAREness Snorkelling Course , Emergency First Respons (CPR, rescue breathing, first aid) |
Duration : |
1 or 2 days (depending on the course) |
8 - 10 years |
Above + Padi Skindiver Course (under water snorkeling), Padi Bubblemaker , Padi Seal Team |
Duration : |
from a few hours to 2 days (depending on the course) |
Maximum depth : |
2 meter in Confined Open Water and 4 meter in a swimming pool. |
10 - 12 years |
Above + Padi Discover Scuba Diving , Padi Junior Scuba Diver and Padi Junior Open Water Diver Courses. Some Padi Speciality Diver Courses , like Peak Performance Buoyancy and Fish Identification. Padi Adventure Diver Course. |
Duration : |
From 1day till 4 days |
Maximum Depth : |
12 meter |
12 - 15 years |
Above + Padi Advanced Open Water Diver Course and Padi Rescue Diver Course |
Specials : |
15 years and older: Padi Nitrox (enriched air) Speciality Diver Course. 18 years and older: Padi Dive master Course and Padi Dive Instructor Course (IDC) |
Children are very enthusiastic about water, fish life and the interaction on the surface and under water. Although control needs to be there, so that our scuba dive instructor watches for their well being, scuba diving is a very safe sport to do for children. You can of course also do the above dive and snorkel courses with the whole family and make it a nice family holiday, please let us know what you wish: time together or do you and your partner need some time together aswell (we take care of the kids).
The Different Courses:
* Padi Discover Snorkeling: never snorkeled before ? A bit scared or not a water 
talent ? No worries, you can start of the beach here in water where you can stand up in, we offer lifejackets and personal coaching. If you feel well after one day, then you can take your guide with you to our snorkel sites in Open Water.You will see it is easy and you can have lot's of fun ! No minimum age, children (until 18 years) need written permission from their parents. This is fun for the whole family !!!
* Shark AWAREness Distinct Snorkeling Speciality Course: after ca. 2,5 hour classroom discussions with 
video's and your instructor, you will go out to safely interact with sharks, while snorkeling. Don't worry: we do not have aggressive sharks, but we do need to learn some information about them to be able to protect them and find them ! After the snorkeling you will get a Shark AWAREness certification card, which also contributes to the funding for the anti-sharkfinning and the protect the reef and protect the shark campaigns of project AWARE. (for more information about these projects: www.projectaware.org)
* AWARE Coral Reef classroom course (one of the best books about nature is included in this course) in combination with your snorkeling trip. Nice to do with your whole family !! Is around 5 hours, also with video and breaks in the classroom and the next day we go out snorkelling to have a look at the reef. After the snorkeling you will get an AWARE Coral Conservation certification card, with which you sponsor the protect the reef campaigns of project AWARE. (for more information about these projects: www.projectaware.org)
* AWARE Kids: After colouring some fish pictures, having a look at Nemo the movie, we go and clean up a bit
of beach after which we go into the water to cool of. Fun for the whole family and the children learn some responsibility aswell.
* We also offer Emergency First Response (EFR) Courses (CPR, rescue breathing and first aid), Child Care Courses (for first aid for children) & Padi Emergency Oxygen Provider Courses for non-divers and divers. There are no age or other requirements for you to be able to participate in these courses !
Wouldn't it be fun to do this with your whole family and isn't this very important for your children to learn ? The Emergency First Response Course is just a 1 day course ! If you find this very interesting you can add 1 more day and also do the Emergency Oxygen Provider Course and / or the Child Care Course and go more into depth.
* Padi Skin Diver Course: From 8 years children can start with this skin diving course, which next to snorkeling on the 
surface also teaches children how to responsible and safe dive under water while holding their breath. How to extend your time under water, how to interact with animal life under water, what to do and what not to do ? Fun for the whole Family.
* Padi Seal team: From 8 years, with a minimum of 4 children per group needed. Go on exiting missions under water in a swimming pool on compressed air (this is scuba diving for children until a max. depth of 4 meter in a swimming pool). Let children use their imagination and have a astronauts "free feeling" under water and play while diving on scuba under direct supervision of a Padi scuba dive instructor.
* Padi Bubblemaker Course: From 8 years of age you can do this in a pool or Confined Water until a max. depth of 2 meter with a Padi scuba dive instructor. Become a diver today, feel weightless and learn about diving and fish ! We take children in a max.group size of 2 children per dive instructor, just to make sure their safety is very much taken care of !
Video about the Padi Bubblemaker Course
* For information about Padi Discover Scuba Diving and the Padi Junior Scuba Diving and Padi Junior Open Water Diver Courses, and Padi Junior Adventure Diver and Padi Junior Advanced Diver Courses, please see the course pages about these courses or click on the words to be taken there.
It is important to know the requirements on the next page and that children from 10 and 11 years of age have a maximum depth of 12 meter, children of 12 to 14 (during and after completing their Junior Advanced Course) have a maximum depth of 21 meter. When children of 10 and 11 are doing a diving course, instructors can take a max. of 2 students in this age group and an additional 2 divers that are not in this age group (so max. 4 divers) in one group !
Prices and Requirements:
Dive & snorkel Course: |
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1 hour teaching from the beach. Min. age:- |
500 TB |
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2 hours classroom (can be done on the boat aswell) and 2 snorkeling spots, where we look for sharks, incl. certification card Padi. Min. age: - |
4.000 TB |
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AWARE Coral Reef Course |
5 hours classroom, taught in combination with the snorkeling course from boat (2 snorkeling spots), incl. certification card and AWARE manual. Min.age: - |
4.000 TB |
AWARE Kids |
Some video watching, some theory (2 hours total) and some beach clean ups and games. Half a day program, from land, no materials included. Min. age: - |
2.500 TB |
half a day video and practise on manikins (CPR, Rescue Breathing and First Aid). Min. age: - |
4.250 TB |
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Padi Skin Diver Course |
1 day (min. 2 locations) snorkeling from the boat, with skin diver skills practise with an instructor. How to stay under water for as long as possible safely. Incl. certification card. Min. age: 8 years. |
4.000 TB |
Padi Bubblemaker Course |
2 hours from the beach or in shallow protected water (2 meter depth) from the boat diving with an instructor. 1 dive.Incl. Padi bubblemaker package. Min. age: 8 years. |
3.500 TB (boat) 2.000 TB (beach) |
Padi Seal Team |
Min. 4 children per session. Min age: 8 years. See description, pool only. Max. depth: 4 meter. Time per session: 2 hours. |
2.000 TB |
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Try Dive |
5 minutes breathing under water in pool or from the beach, to try. Min. age: 8 years |
FREE OF CHARGE ! |
1 dive from the boat, no certification. Min. age: 10 years |
2.500 TB |
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2 dives from the boat, skills practise and proof of diving in a Padi pamflet. Min. age: 10 years. |
4.000 TB |
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2 days Padi diving course (1 day on the boat), incl. certification card and Padi materials. Min. age: 10 years |
9.000 TB |
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4 days Padi diving course (2 days on the boat), incl. certification card and Padi materials . Min. age: 10 years. |
14.000 TB |
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1 day (3 dives from the boat), incl. certification card and Padi materials .Min. age: 10 years. |
7.600 TB |
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3 days Padi diving course (3 days on the boat, 2 dives per day), incl. certification card and Padi materials. Min. age: 12 years. |
13.900 TB |
