Scuba Diving in Phuket
Scuba diving in Phuket is fantastic. Phuket has the best dive sites to discover the wonders of the underwater world.
While diving you will have the chance to see turtles, clown fish, king mackerel, rainbow mackerel and barracudas. Patrolling around the reefs are black tip and leopard sharks.
With a little bit of luck, you could be swimming with the elusives mantas and whale sharks.
There’s no better way to have fun than exploring these lively sites with a scuba gear or while snorkelling. The dive sites offer something for everyone, from beginner divers to experienced ones – Start your dive adventure in Phuket!
Sites around Phuket can provide unique opportunities you won’t find in other regions – plus they’re just plain cool!
The best thing about scuba diving in Phuket is the diverse range of sites. From huge pinnacles to world-class shipwrecks, there’s something new and exciting to explore on every dive.
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Phuket dive sites
Phuket Shark Point:
The best day-trip dive site in Phuket. The pinnacles are covered with beautiful pink and purple soft corals, and the marine life is abundant. On this site, you can encounter leopard sharks near the sandy bottom, as well as bamboo sharks, banded sea snakes, and turtles.
Anemone Reef:
This pinnacle is another popular dive spot visited by day boats and liveaboards. The large anemone field covers the entire area. Divers can find lionfish, clownfish, moray eels, and reef sharks, plus some fascinating macro clinging to the rocky substrate.
Karon Beach:
This shallow local shore dive is used by dive centers and novice divers, and it is a great spot for muck diving. An abundance of marine life can be seen, including rays, turtles, and some bright coral formations. Euro-Divers has access to the beach and to the island of Koh Phu by long tail boats.
Learn to dive in Phuket
Are you looking for an exciting, new experience? Phuket is the perfect place to start your diving journey.
You can ‘Try Diving‘ for a day. Or you can get certified as a Scuba Diver. We offer the full range of PADI courses here in Phuket. From Discover Scuba Diver to PADI Divemaster and Intrsuctor. Learn more about PADI here.
Euro-Divers Phuket offers wreck dives and advanced courses like PADI Nitrox and Deep Diver which increase your confidence in the water. And don’t forget all the beautiful coral reef systems waiting to be explored!
No matter what type of diver you are, Phuket has something to offer everyone.
Dive into the best Phuket has to offer!
Discover a world of fascinating and unique underwater sights with fun dives around coral reefs, shipwrecks and pinnacles. The rich marine life is colorful and lively and offers something new each time you jump in the water.
With world-class sites providing excellent opportunities for beginners and strong confidence builders and for more advanced diver experience, there’s something for everyone. No wonder why people flock to this paradise. Get ready to explore some of the most notable and outstanding diving spots that the Andaman Pearl can bring!
Best time to dive Phuket
The best time to dive in Phuket is between January and April.
Phuket is a tropical island with distinct wet and dry seasons, but warm and comfortable diving conditions. Visitors can expect brief downpours each afternoon during the wet season. During the green season, January to April are hotter and dryer days.
About Phuket
Phuket, on Thailand’s southwest coast, is one of Southeast Asia’s most popular tourist destinations, home to a huge range of dive options.
Phuket is a popular destination for over nine million visitors every year, with bustling tourist resorts, busy beaches, and a lively nightlife.
It is an ideal base for visiting the Andaman Sea islands, with the ferry to Krabi and notable spots such as Koh Phi Phi, Koh Lanta, and the Similan Islands.
Everything started with my Open Water Course at Koh Tao, Thailand. I’m hooked with the first breath I took underwater – this magical and peaceful world with all these different colors and creatures made me forget about everything else. It felt like an addiction.
This time made me realize that I don’t want to keep diving only as a hobby. I wanted to become a Diving Instructor and make diving my profession.
I was working as an entertainer in one of the resorts in South Male atoll. The first time I tried diving I absolutely fell in love with it, so every day off I would go diving.
I was lucky enough to meet people from Euro-Divers who helped me complete my instructor course and employment later on.
That trip changed everything. Since 2014, I visited more than 50 countries in three continents.
2019, 2020, 2021 – still in Maldives, enjoying what I love the most.
Im sonnigen Süden (Ägypten) lernte ich im Urlaub die unglaubliche Unterwasserwelt bei einem Schnuppertauchgang kennen und lieben.
Anfangs arbeitete ich im Tauchcenter im Büro, mir wurde jedoch schnell klar, dass ich die Gäste nicht nur über Wasser sondern auch unter Wasser begleiten wollte. Somit machte ich die Divemaster Ausbildung.
I studied Hotel management and ended up working for several years in different Hotels/Resorts around Italians seaside where I spend my days off diving and achieving the Dive Master rating.
I choose to stay in Oman because of its unspoiled dive site, beaches and many undiscovered dive places! We do not have mass tourism here and the country itself is spectacular besides being the safest place to live in.
Bored and burnt out of the stressful life in Holland, I quit my job as Manager Back Office & Finance and I went to Curacao for holiday. On this tropical island I took my first breaths under water with Instructor Marc, who is still my buddy in life.
Diving keeps me grounded, relaxed and connected with Mother Nature (myself). It supports me to let go, to put things into perspective and it helps me to stay focused and balanced in my position as a manager.
But diving was not at all my purpose of the journey, in fact I was not even a diver yet, I became a diver after I got passionate in freediving in Egypt in 2012 while freediving with dolphin in the wild, eager to become a snorkeling guide, I did my life guard licence and then my PADI open water!
I love freediving but scuba diving is an all other story for me, learning scuba diving make you discover part of yourself you didn’t know, you learn to control things that you would have never imagined possible, I regularly see many of my students discovering how calm they can be underwater when in life they tend to be hyperactive and then in the other hand I see calm or introverted persons becoming excited and move like a torpedo underwater 🙂 so diving might not be for everyone but it is definitely to discover!
I decided after my hospitality studies to enter this fascinating new world. I have started my career in Club Med as Guest Service and had the opportunity to travel some of the famous destinations for diving or snorkeling.
I am the perfect example of someone who was scared of diving, the only advice I could give is to believe in yourself.
But since I was young, I knew I wanted to travel the world, to go on adventures, have fun and meet people from everywhere. Unfortunately, those jobs didn’t give me the opportunity to do it so after 5 years I decided to move to Thailand.
Scuba Diving is a sport of passion.
During this time, I wanted to try something new, so I started scuba diving and I will never forget my first underwater experience. I felt nervous at first but at the same time a lot of excitement.
Some people might think that diving is a difficult sport, but there are many ways to enjoy safe diving for any age or gender.