Big Blue Diving Koh Tao, Koh Tao

Koh Tao’s beautiful landscapes continue beneath the sea and scuba divers can explore an exciting range of sites including pinnacles and reefs, swim throughs, and colourful hard and soft coral gardens. Koh Tao’s easy diving conditions in its sheltered bays offer relaxing dives with opportunities to encounter plentiful reef fish, schools of batfish, trevally, and fusiliers and some interesting species hidden amongst the corals. Further away from the island, jagged pinnacles of rock are home to batfish, barracuda, snappers and grouper, as well as carpets of anemones and dramatic, twisted sea whips.

Open water courses on Koh Tao

Koh Tao’s is one of the best places in the world for scuba dive training. Boasting the highest certification rates outside of Australia for both PADI and SSI, you can complete all levels of certification from open water to tech diving as well as the entire range of advanced education, specialties and freediving. And Koh Tao’s dive centres offer it all in a relaxed and fun beachside environment.

Koh Tao’s whale sharks

As well as being an amazing place to learn to scuba dive, Koh Tao offers a chance to encounter one of the giants of the sea - whale sharks! These huge animals are known to frequent the area around Koh Tao, particularly at famous sites such as Chumphon Pinnacles, Sail Rock, South West Pinnacle, Hin Wong Pinnacle and Shark Island. Although sightings are never guaranteed, visitors to Koh Tao in the main whale shark seasons - March to May, and October to early December - have a very real chance of an encounter with one of these extraordinary animals! And even though the pinnacles are more suited to advanced divers, you never know what might swim by during your Open Water course - every season, a few lucky students get an encounter of a lifetime during a training dive!