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Davy Jones` Locker

Dive Centre Center (English)

Service:
  • Accommodation for Divers
  • BSAC Club Centre
  • DSAT
  • Equipment Gear Rentals
  • Gear Equipment Servicing
  • Liveaboard Diving
  • PADI
  • School Course Learn to Dive
  • Technical Diving
  • Underwater Photography/Video
  • Underwater Publications Prints
  • Vacation Holiday Scuba Diving
  • Wreck Diving
Company description Diving Koh Tao with Davy Jones` Locker is ideal whether you are a nervous novice or a highly experienced diver. Our experienced team can take you diving on the beautiful coral reefs near Koh Tao as well as on some of the most exciting wrecks of the Gulf of Thailand.
Davy Jones` Locker is owned and run by Charlott Ragnarsson and Tim Lawrence. The Dive Centre was set up in june 2004. We are a BSAC recognised school. We also run PADI diving courses and specialties. The two agencies help us cater for all levels of divers and divers to become.
We can offer:
* All levels of diving courses.
* Wreck Expedition liveaboard trips.
* Insurance cover for our customers.
* Tailor made diving holiday packages.
* Multilingual European Dive Instructors.
We are one out of only two technical diving schools on Koh Tao. Technical Diving allows experienced divers to dive deeper, enter overhead environments such as a wreck or caves or dive for longer bottom times with specialised equipment after gaining expert training. Technical or deep dives are defined as dives deeper than the standard recreational limits of between 30-40m. This is due to the fact that breathing regular air while experiencing depths below 30m causes an increasing amount of impairment due to nitrogen narcosis.
Technical diving is also described as dives that are long enough to require mandatory decompression stops which can be performed using nitrox or pure oxygen. Decompression diving carries higher risks as it is no longer safe to make a direct ascent to the surface when underwater problems occur. That`s why obtaining the necessary technical training is essential before you consider this type of diving. We provide BSAC and DSTA(TecRec) courses. Both agencies are recognised world wide. We are one out of only two recognised BS-AC dive schools on Koh Tao.
Tim Lawrence, manager and head instructor has more than 12 years of experience working within diving in various environments. He`s a PADI OW Instructor, IANTD Advanced Nitrox Instructor, DSAT Tec Deep Instructor, and a BSAC Advanced Instructor.
Our experienced European instructors are able to teach in a wide variety of languages including:
• English
• German
• Spanish
• Dutch
• Swedish
Other languages are available on request.
Location description: You`ll se sheer wall dives, submerged pinnacles, archways and tunnels carpeted with iridescent soft corals are among the many highlights here.
Our favorite dive sites:
• The Liberty Wrecks
Only 3 hours cruise from Pranburi, recreational SCUBA divers can enjoy rich marine life and thrilling adventure of wreck dives on approximately 30 m depth.
• Torpedo Wreck
The Torpedo Wreck is a 60 meter Japanese cargo boat about 2 hours north from Koh Tao. This dive site provides ideal depths and situations for deep specialties and all levels of the DSAT TecRec program. There`s two large holds with the crane collapsed onto the deck. Provides three levels of easy penetration on the stern, engine room, accommodation, wheelhouse. Bit of a wriggle into the bow compartment. Nice big bow, lots of fish.She sank in the mid seventies, called the torpedo as the cargo of teak logs look like torpedoes
• Mystery Marus
Dozens of Japanese `Maru` or large commercial transport vessels were sunk in the Gulf of Siam and South China Sea during the latter stages of WWII. Most were sank as a result of American submarine action and Allied Forces aerial bombing runs from India .
• The Unicorn Wreck
This Vessel sank around 1989. Local Koh Tao inhabitants said that the ship just pulled up off shore, around a mile
North of Koh Tao `Mango Bay` and over the next couple of hours slowly sank. No-one was hurt in the sinking. An Insurance Fraud was immediately suspected.
The cargo was listed as expensive Tuna Fish. Under armed guard, Divers descended to examine the wreck, and discovered that the holds contained nothing but low-
grade Dog-Food un-fit for human consumption, not expensive Tuna fish as listed on the manifest.
The wreck is that of a large modern 1960- 70`s, 60meter long steel freighter lying stern down on the bottom at a depth of 50m. The vessel leans slightly on its port side an angle of 60degrees with the top of the bow at 38meters, and the keel of the bow area several meters above the seabed, allowing divers to swim under this area of the hull.
• The Sea Crest Drill Ship
91 rig workers of many nationalities were killed in the disaster, leading to a massive legal case brought against the ships owners UNOCAL. After the vessel capsized and the storm blew through, the rescue authorities had problems locating it, leading to the only 2 survivors of the calamity spending an unusually long amount of time in the water prior to recovery.
• C47 Aircraft Wreck

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Contact information:
Phone: +66 (0) 77 45 62 16
Fax: +66 (0) 79 70 09 13
Street Address:
9/21 Moo 2, Mae Haad
Koh Tao
Suratthani
Thailand
84280
Spoken language(s): English,Spanish,German,Dutch,Swedish
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  GMT + 7 Bangkok, Jacarta, Hanoi, Krasnoyarsk
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