Private Guide – Similan Islands

 Why take a Private Guide?

Have you ever been diving the Similan islands and found yourself in a group where the other divers just didn’t suit you? Same certification level and roughly the same amount of dives. Maybe the other divers took all the attention of the dive guide with various problems or the other way around and you needed some extra attention and felt like you were a burden to the other scuba divers

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A Private Guide

This way you have a professional instructor all to yourself! You can pick the brains of your dive guide and get extra tips on how to improve your buoyancy or fin kick technique or you can get that extra time to take the perfect photo when normally you have to rush onwards to keep up with the rest of the scuba divers in your dive group.

Scuba refresher

A couple of days ago we had a couple who wanted to go diving. They hadn’t dived for a while (1,5 years). Last time they went diving it was during their open water course. Instead of doing a full on scuba refresher in a pool, (a good option if it has been a very long time since you dived ) They decided to take a private dive guide. They were short on time and felt this option suited them better!

The refresher was integrated with diving the Similan islands. The conditions are good with clear water, small waves and a little to moderate current. We dived closer to the islands, over shallow sandy reefs.  We repeated some of the basic exercises from the course and took a few minutes to get accustomed to the underwater environment. Then we headed out to the reef edge and had a wonderful diving experience.