280 kg in 80 minutes – Thanks Guys

17th June was the date of our first official underwater Clean up of 2012.

A huge THANK YOU to everybody who joined us, well done guys!

Scuba Cat Diving Phuket Thailand Project Aware

The event was co-ordinated by Scuba Cat Diving’s new Eco Manager “Kiwi”. It was great to see such a turn out, MV Scuba Fun was full to capacity with 25 volunteers to help remove trash from our valuable reef.

We split into 4 teams and quickly kitted up including Lift Bags, Gloves, Sea snips etc

The first dive of the day was to be in Bay 4 of Racha Yai Island… wow what a find, I think the Captain must have known exactly where to drop the teams. We descended straight onto a huge fishing net which we quickly got to work on clearing up.

Scuba Cat Diving Phuket Thailand Underwater Cleanup

Even the trigger fish left us alone to get on with our work!!!

After lunch on board the boat we decided to move to another bay on Racha Yai Island where all the fishing boats come in to shelter when the sea is rough. This was a great decision, nets, ropes and lines everywhere……………and this site found the strangest find of the day one Wellington Boot! All the debris collected has been registered with Project Aware to help them with their data collection.

Scuba Cat Diving Phuket Thailand Dive for Debris

We all dive this Island on a daily basis and it was great to see different PADI Dive Companies from around the Island coming working together for one common aim.

A special thank you to Mr Tee, Phuket Dive Center owner, JP, PADI Course Director and Tony Andrews, PADI Regional Manager for joining us. JP has recently become a PADI Instructor for the Poseidon Rebreather and decided to bring it along for the day.

Scuba Cat Diving Phuket Thailand Poseidon Rebreather

A fantastic day, all be it with lots of hard work was rounded off with a Barbecue on Scuba Cats Roof top terrace in the evening with the Students from Concordia International School celebrating the 5th Anniversary of their Reef Check Survey also at Racha Yai Island.

Stay in touch for details of next months Dive for Debris………….

PADI Poseidon Rebreather Course

Scuba Cat Diving are proud to have the Open Water Training for the first Phuket PADI Poseidon MKV1 Closed Circuit Rebreather Instructor Course on board MV Scuba Fun this week.

Scuba Cat Diving Phuket Thailand MV Scuba Fun

Think rebreathers are just for technical diving? Think again….

The Poseidon MKV1 Closed Circuit Rebreather are lightweight, easy-transportable units that use sophisticated electronics to simplify their use.

Scuba Cat Diving Phuket Thailand PADI Rebreather

The benefits of diving a closed circuit rebreather over traditional open circuit scuba include;

  • longer no decompression limits
  • reduced gas consumption

Imagine the experiences and photographs you could get with the underwater wildlife as you become part of their world with no bubbles and less noise….

The PADI Recreational Closed Circuit Rebreather course is now available at Scuba Cat Diving in conjunction with Ben Reymenants.

Scuba Cat Diving Phuket Thailand PADI Rebreather Courses

The two courses we offer for Recreational Divers are :

PADI Rebreather Diver 

How long is the Course?

3 days/4 Dives

You must be:

  • a PADI Open Water Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from a recognized organization)
  •  a PADI Enriched Air Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from a recognized organization)
  •  18 years old with 25 logged dives
What you will learn on the Course:
  •  to use Rebreathers to a maximum of 18m depth within no-decompression limits.
  • to set up and care for, plan and make dives on the Poseidon MKV1 Closed Circuit Rebreather
Scuba Cat Diving Phuket Thailand PADI Advanced Rebreather
PADI Advanced Rebreather Diver

How long is the Course?

3 days /4 Dives

You must be:

  • a PADI Rebreather Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
  •  a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization) prior to certification
  •  a PADI Enriched Air Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another organization)
  •  18 years old with 30 logged Dives
What you will learn on the Course:
  • Teaches you to carry a bailout cylinder and dive to 30m max (40m max with PADI Deep Diver).
  • Respond to problems – bailout to open circuit – you will have a bailout cylinder to enable you to bailout from greater depth.

Scuba Cat Diving Phuket Thailand PADI Rebreather