Cave Diving Thailand

Cave diving in thailand is quite a recent development with caves being discovered regularly, Thailand is covered in caves it vast Karst limstone landscape has a huge network of cave still unexplored or mapped. This challanging cave dives offer some of the most exciting and rewarding diving available in Thailand. All our courses include accomodation while at the cave sites, transport, equipment and even food while staying at Khao sok. Thailands underwater caves have unique physical features, such as stalactites and stalagmites and si, these caves contain some  unique flora andfauna like the giant catfish hiding in Khao Sok's caves.

Cave Diving Courses

Our Cave diving training includes DIR equipment selection and configuration, guideline protocols and techniques, gas management protocols, communication techniques, propulsion techniques, emergency management protocols, and psychological education. As cave diver training stresses the importance of safety it does point out cave conservation ethics as well.

We offer the full range of TDI cave courses from TDI & PADI Cavern diving courses, TDI Intro to Cave and TDI Full Cave courses. Our courses are usually conducted in southern Thailand, in Khao Sok National Park between Surat Thani and Phuket. This area is full of caves including Pra Daeng, Temple cave, and many unexplored caves. This also gives some time to explore and map the underwater village. Are cave courses then to move onto to explore some of the more extensive caves in southern Thailand, including Song Hong and Sra Keow. Are cave course offer and rivaled value to money and some of the most satisfying but challenging tech courses available. Our DIR philosophy is used through all our cave courses.

TDI Cavern 

This course is designed to develop the minimum skills and knowledge for cavern and overhead. Cavern training explains the basic skills needed to enter into the overhead environment. Training will generally consist of gas planning,propulsion techniques needed to deal with the silty environments in many caves, reel and handling, and communication. Once certified as a cavern diver advance into cave diving training environment diving within the limits of light zone. The objective of this course is to train divers in the proper planning, procedures, techniques and hazards of cavern diving.

Course Structure and Duration

Course consists of:

Four (4) Cavern dives with a total bottom time of eighty (80) minutes conducted at two (2) different sites.

1. The minimum number of classroom and briefing hours is six (6).

2. Course must be conducted over a minimum of 2 days.

During The Course You will learn the following:

1. How to properly deploy a guideline.

2. How to properly follow a guideline.

3. How to touch contact communicate

4. How to correctly deploy directional markers

TDI Intro to Cave

This course is an introduction to the basic principles of cave diving utilizing a single primary guide line. Introduction into cave training builds off of the techniques learned during cavern training and includes the training needed to penetrate beyond the cavern zone and working with permanent guidelines that exist in many caves. Once intro to cave certified, a diver may penetrate much further into a cave, usually limited to 1/6th of double cylinders.Introductory cave diving is the second level in the development of safe techniques for cave diving, directly building upon the cavern diver course. This introduction to cave diving is not intended to train divers for all facets of cave diving. The objective of this course is the perfection of skills taught in the cavern diving program with additional techniques and procedures required for y cave dives not requiring complex navigation.

Course Structure and Duration

Course consists of:

Minimum of four (4) single guideline cave dives with a total bottom time of one hundred (100) minutes conducted at two (2) different sites.

TDI allows instructors to structure courses according to the number of students participating and their skill level.

1. The minimum number of classroom and briefing hours is four (4). 2. Course must be taught over 2 days.

3. If this course is combined with a cavern diver course it is a minimum of 3 days and a total of 8 dives and 180 bottom time minutes.

During The Course You will learn the following:

1. How to properly deploy a guideline. 2. How to properly follow a guideline. 3. Use of safety reel in lost diver procedures. 4. Use of safety reel in lost line drill.

TDI Full Cave

This course is the third (3rd) stage of training in the series of TDI’s cave diver development programs. Full cave training serves final level of basic training and includes the training needed to penetrate deep into the cave working from both permanent guidelines as well as sidelines and may plan and complete complex dives deep into a system using decompression to stay longer. Once cave certified, a diver may penetrate much further into a cave, usually limited by 1/3rd of double cylinders. A cave diver is also allowed to do multiple jumps or gaps (a break in the guideline from two sections of mainline or between mainline and sideline) during the dive.Advanced cave dive planning, the practical execution of different types of cave systems and scenarios divers encounter are presented.

The objective of this course is to expand and critique previous skills accomplished in the Cavern and Introductory Cave diving programs. Emphasis is placed upon dive planning and skill perfection through actual cave penetration.
Course Structure and Duration

Open Water Execution:

1. Eight (8) cave dives are required with a minimum accumulated bottom time of two hundred forty (240) at three different sites.

2. At least one (1) of these sites should be a location not utilized in training during the Cavern or Introductory Cave Courses

3. For divers entering the cave program without Cavern / Introductory Cave Diving certification, sixteen (16) cave dives with four hundred twenty (420) minutes of total bottom, (not including decompression time are required).

Course Structure:
1. The number of classroom and briefing hours is six (6). 2. Course must be taught in no less than four (4) days. 3. If combined with Cavern and Intro to Cave diving, course must be 7 days long.

During The Course You will learn the following:
1. How to properly deploy a guideline. 2. How to properly follow a guideline. 3. Use of safety reel in lost diver procedures. 4. Use of safety reel in lost line drill.