What is Involved in the SSI Try Dive or Basic Diver program (DSD)?

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Discover the pure magic of floating weightless among vibrant coral reefs and marine life. You don’t need any prior experience or swimming skills to get started today, and a lifetime of underwater adventures awaits! Learning to dive should be an unforgettable, stress-free experience. As a family-run Phuket dive team with decades of local experience, we specialise in introducing beginners to the ocean in the safest, most relaxed, and fun environment. Whether you want purely to satisfy your curiosity or take your … Read More

Life on Board: Similan Island Liveaboards Diving Safaris | Oceanic | Phuket

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Life on board: Similan Islands Diving Liveaboard If you’ve never experienced a diving liveaboard, the idea of taking a Similan diving safari might be a bit daunting. In this article, we hope to dispel your fears, and explain why you’ll remember your first diving liveaboard for the rest of your life, and for all the right reasons!. Imagine waking up in your own cabin, the water lapping gently a few feet from your window. Outside the sky is perfectly clear, … Read More

Early Bird Discount Similans Trips – Thailand Liveaboards

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Are you looking for a discount Similans trip? Then look no further! We are delighted to be able to offer our early bird discount Similans adventures on selected trips again this year.     We’re looking forward to another great season of diving when the Similan islands open again in October. It was a very busy time last season (2016-17), both above the water and below. The good boats are usually fully booked by around around mid-November, and last year they were then … Read More

Boat Tour Agency Phuket | Oceanic | Kata Beach

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Oceanic Dive Center, Phuket’s Premier Boat Tour Agency in Kata In addition to our diver training, we have been operating as a Boat Tour Agency since 1999. We hand pick the best of the tour boats available in the Andaman Sea to ensure the best experience for our divers, whether it’s a half day tour to the local islands, or several days on a liveaboard to the Similan Islands and beyond. We have resisted the pressure to become a “bubble factory”, preferring to … Read More

Go Eco Phuket – Reef Cleanup at Oceanic Dive Center

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 Go Eco Phuket – Reef CleanupAnother great success for Go Eco Phuket. Team Oceanic supplied volunteers & off duty diving instructors (Thanks to you all) to help with this years massive task of cleaning the beaches & reefs of Phuket, Racha Yai & Racha Noi. Every dive boat & dive center got involved for the cleanup. Hundreds of kilos of plastics, debris, fishing nets, batteries, bags, tyres, cans & bottles etc were collected! A great day for the diving industry … Read More

Superstar Dive Sites

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Hin Daeng, Hin Muang & Koh Ha… superstar dive sites! Sometimes it seems all the attention in the diving community of Phuket is on the world-famous Similans, so these other treasures of the Andaman are often overlooked. Just a bit too far for a daytrip, Hin Daeng (Red Rock) and Hin Muang (Purple Rock) and we visit them on shorter 2, 3 or 4 night liveaboard trips which will also visit the enchanting islands Koh Ha and Phi Phi and … Read More

Oceanic Branches Out

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Oceanic Branches out after Thirteen Years as a PADI 5* IDC Center After thirteen years as a PADI Five Star IDC Centre, we want to offer our divers more choice. Within the PADI accreditation system, five star status is the highest accolade for dive centres, and we’re proud to have met the critera every year since 1999. Now we want to give our divers more choice and so we have decided to become a Multiple-Agency Diver Training Centre offering SSI … Read More

Become a Shark Guardian

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We are proud to be affiliated with Shark Guardian, a UK Charity for shark and marine conservation projects worldwide. Founded by experienced scuba diving instructors with a great passion for sharks, Shark Guardian has been focusing on shark and marine conservation activities, education, supporting and promoting shark conservation efforts and leading scuba dives for shark encounters since 1998. If you would like to support the excellent work that the team at Shark Guardian do, you can do so by buying … Read More