Explore History as a Wreck Diver
As an ocean explorer, you can experience the excitement of exploring shipwrecks under the ocean, investigate their history, and take some great photographs along the way once you become a certified PADI Wreck Diver.
With three great wrecks to explore, Koh Tao offers unrivaled access for wreck training at accessible depths.
The PADI Wreck Diver course is scheduled over 2 days and prepares you to plan and execute dives inside shipwrecks safely.
Included in the PADI Wreck Diver course
- PADI Wreck Diver E-learning manual
- Dive Insurance
- Small Groups (4:1)
- 2-day schedule
- PADI Wreck Diver certification
- Full set of Aqualung rental equipment including a Dive Computer for your course
- Official Isla Tortuga Divers T-shirt
- Best Vibes!
What you learn during your PADI Wreck Diver course
- Common problems and hazards of wreck diving
- The correct planning, organization, procedures, and techniques for fun and safe wreck diving including wreck penetration
- Mapping shipwrecks for planning future wreck dives
- Wreck penetration equipment, limits, limited-visibility diving techniques, and wreck penetration emergency procedures
What is involved in the PADI Wreck Diver course?
The specialty course consists of 2 sections:
Knowledge Development for Wreck Diver
Complete the PADI Wreck Diver e-learning manual, completing the knowledge review.
Open Water training for Wreck Diver Course
Your open water training dives will be conducted on one of the three wrecks around Koh Tao. The selection of the site will depend on a number of factors including weather and our diving schedule.
The shipwrecks we have around Koh Tao are HTMS Sattakut, an ex-US WW2 navy boat that served with the Thai Navy afterward, and HTMS Suphairin and HTMS Hanhak Sattru, two Thai Navy ships commissioned in the 1970s.
Wreck Diver Training dives 1 & 2
You will meet your PADI diving instructor prior to the dive boat departing to review your e-learning and review some of the skills you will be expected to master underwater.
If you are already a PADI Advanced Open Water diver, you have already completed Wreck Diver Training dive 1, so we can offer you a fun dive along with Wreck Diver Training dive 2 on this dive trip.
One of the skills you will run through on dry land prior to doing it underwater is the deployment and retrieval of a penetration line.
During Wreck training dive #1, you will learn how to safely plan and execute a wreck dive deeper than 18 meters. You will also be asked to swim along the outside whilst identifying any potential hazards.
On Wreck Diver training dive #2, you will make a map of the wreck. The map will include an outline, as well as some features including points of interest. You will be asked to survey the wreck for the following day’s penetration dive.
Wreck Diver Training dives 3 & 4
During Wreck Diver training dive #3, you will practice the deployment and retrieval of a penetration line, in the same way as you practiced on land the previous day.
Underwater along the outside of the wreck, you will swim along the deployed penetration line with a dive light whilst maintaining contact with the line without kicking up any silt.
During your final training dive of the course—Wreck Diver training dive #4—you will plan and perform a wreck penetration dive that enters and exits the wreck.
Swimming with a dive light in your hand, you will move through the wreck, keeping in contact with the line at all times without causing excessive silt disturbance.
Upon completion of all the requirements, you will be certified as a PADI Wreck Specialty Diver.
Prerequisites for PADI Wreck Diver course
To embark on this exciting adventure and further improve your skills as a diver, there are a series of requirements:
- PADI Adventure Diver Certification or equivalent: You need to be either a PADI Adventure Diver or equivalent with 7 logged dives and have dived relatively recently. If you need a refresher on your diving skills, we can do that too!
- Be in good health: As for every PADI course, you will have to complete a medical questionnaire to ensure that there are no contraindications with diving.
- Minimum age: You have to be at least 15 years old to be eligible to enroll on a Wreck Diver course
What is the PADI Wreck Diver course schedule?
The PADI Wreck Diver course offers flexibility in terms of schedules.
If you have already completed the Wreck Adventure dive as part of your Advanced Diver course, then this is the most popular schedule:
Complete the PADI Wreck Diver e-Learning ahead of time.
Day 1 – Wreck Dive Training dive #2
- Meet your Instructor to review the e-learning and complete dry land training using the reel and line
- Complete Wreck Dive 2 on either our morning boat @07:15 or afternoon boat @12:15*
- Review and log the dive
Day 2 – Wreck Dive Training dives #3 & #4
- Complete Wreck Dive #3 & #4 on our morning boat, departure @07:15
- Review and log the dives
*Upgrade with an extra fun dive for 800 Baht to make this trip a 2-dive trip
In just 24 hours you will have completed the PADI Wreck Diver course and we will issue you with the prestigious PADI Wreck Diver certification.
Advantages of taking the PADI Wreck Diver course
With your PADI Wreck Diver certification, you will be qualified to penetrate wrecks within recreational limits using the planning and execution techniques you have learned, opening up access to some of the best wreck dives in the world.
In the case of local diving opportunities in the Gulf of Thailand, dive sites such as HTMS Sattakut, HTMS Suphairin, and HTMS Hanhak Sattru offer some great wreck diving!
Completing your PADI Wreck Diver course is a great way to improve your general diving skills, awareness, experience, and confidence.
And the best part? It’s incredibly fun!
If you are looking for new challenges and you want to extend your limits as a diver, then the PADI Wreck Diver course is for you.
Why Choose PADI for Wreck Diver course?
PADI dive centers must adhere to the highest training standards and customer service levels in the dive industry.
PADI is the most recognized agency worldwide when it comes to recreational diving courses, with hundreds of agencies around the world; PADI is established in more countries than any other agency.
In short, if you go to a small island in the middle of the ocean and there is a diving school, it is most likely PADI.
PADI is the only training agency whose curriculum is written by educational authors, using tried, tested, and trusted learning philosophies adapted for scuba diving.
The PADI system is performance-based, not time-based.
What this means is you will have to earn your certification, and you can’t buy it!
Please keep in mind that we are going to ask you to do more than other dive centers and agencies. On the bright side, this will mean you will receive a higher quality training course and will be much better prepared as a certified scuba diver.
PADI is the only agency that conducts customer satisfaction surveys to ensure that its professionals are meeting the highest standards of education and safety, while other agencies only ask instructors or schools to manage their own standards.
Isla Tortuga Divers PADI Wreck Diver course
- We limit our class size to a maximum of 4 students per Instructor, providing you with a personalized and focused training course.
- Our dive boat MV Attawat is comfortable and spacious, and as we own our own boat, it gives us the flexibility to choose the dive sites that best suit you
- The knowledge development portion of the course can be completed using the PADI eLearning program. Once you have completed the registration process and paid your deposit, you can get started straight away!
- Completing PADI’s e-learning ahead of time means no classroom on your PADI Wreck Diver course!
- We are a PADI 5 Star Instructor Development Center, and as such, all our instructors are trained in-house by our PADI Course Directors. This allows us to vet every staff member to ensure they are teaching to the very highest standards, providing you with a quality and safe experience ….and of course lots of fun!
- We provide you with a dive computer for all your open water training dives at no extra cost!
- We only teach ‘diving with dive computers’ on all our PADI diving courses in line with the latest technology and educational principles.
- As an ‘Aqualung Partner Center’ all our diving equipment passes the most rigorous quality and reliability tests.
- Last, but without a doubt the most important reason to complete your PADI Wreck Diver course with Isla Tortuga is we guarantee that you will learn to dive with a smile and that you will be left wanting more.
Koh Tao is a great location to go fun diving and explore our range of PADI Specialty courses. With our expert diving instructors, PADI Divemasters, custom dive boat and quality dive equipment, Isla Tortuga Divers can meet the needs of all certified divers.
Contact us for course prices, our Air Conditioned Rooms or Shared Rooms and our daily dive site schedule.
