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PADI Wreck Diver Specialty Course |
2 days 4 dives |
12,000baht |
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| Course prices includes course materials, hotel transfers, breakfast and lunch on the boat. | |||||||
| Prerequisites for the PADI wreck diver course are minimum age of 15 years old and a PADI Adventure diver certification (or equivalent). | |||||||
| Why not combine the wreck diver specialty with deep diver, nitrox and navigation specialties? | |||||||
List of all available specialty courses here
Why Wreck Diving?
Some divers hate wrecks. Why would fish choose to live in a junkyard when they can live on a beautiful reef they ask? Other divers love wrecks above all else. For those divers there is an extra buzz of adventure around wrecks and all the history that is tied up within them. There is an eirie, almost unnatural feeling of diving underwater on something that should be above water. What will you find? Some treasure maybe?
The world is full of wonderful wreck dives and more are being created all the time as countries deliberately sink wrecks to form artificial reefs. Wreck freaks could easily travel the world only diving wrecks. How about the Thistlegorm in Egypt, the Yongala in Queensland or the Japanese Pacific fleet at Chuuk Lagoon for starters?
Wrecks often have a rich history and the more you know about the wreck that you are diving on the more interesting they become. Identifying parts of the wreck and looking for signs of how it sank adds interest to the dive.
Wrecks attract marine life especially if the sink in areas with no reefs. Phuket's best wreck dive, The King Cruiser has so many fish you can barely see the wreck at times. The Boonsung Wreck in Khao Lak regularly attracts whale sharks.
Taking a wreck diving course teaches divers how to safely navigate on wrecks which can be very hazardous places particularly if entering overhead environments cuts off direct access to the surface. Other risks include becoming lost inside a wreck that silts up, running out of air, entanglement on fishing nets and injuries caused by sharp metal objects. Marine life living on a wreck can also pose a hazard. (Phuket's King Cruiser is covered in scorpion fish making any contact with the structure potentially dangerous. It's also home to lots of lionfish, moray eels and a barracuda as big as a man. The resident turtle is friendly but he does like to bite air hoses).
Other specialty courses such as Deep Diver, Navigation and Nitrox Diver all complement the wreck specialty.
Divers with a passion for wrecks often progress onto more technical diving. The wreck diver specialty is the first step on that ladder.