Planning to do your Divemaster Course this year?

If so, consider Blue Planet, we take considerable pride in the quality of our Divemaster Course and this year Mellisa is overseeing the programme. Why do your course with us?

 - Our courses are not rushed as we want you to gain lots of experience in the water (better value for you).
- We use specialist instructors for particular parts of the course so that you gain knowledge above and beyond what you need to pass the course.
- We fully support your knowledge development and try to expose you to as many courses and guides as possible.
- We offer you the opportunity to gain other specialities as vastly reduced costs (i.e. Equipment and Nitrox Speciality).

- We give you great discounts on equipment.
- We can offer working internships for those on a strict budget.
- You will have the most fun and never forget your course with us.

Interested? To find out more click to see our Divemaster Programme Guide or contact Mellisa direct on blueplanetdivers@gmail.com.

Just how good are you at Photography?

Want to find out? We are planning the first Underwater Photography Contest in Koh Lanta at the End of November 2009. We look forward to seeing some great reflections of diving around Koh Lanta.

“Underwater photography is such a growing sport and we want to encourage novices as well as professional underwater photographers,” Laurent told us. Laurent is still finalising the details, so we will release more in a month’s time. In the meantime if you want further information, contact Laurent directly on blueplanetdivers@gmail.com

Just bought yourself a digital underwater camera? Thinking of buying one? Or want to improve your Underwater Photos? Then contact us, many of our instructors are Underwater Photography Speciality Instructors and can offer a very good basic course for beginners and we also have some very talented photographers that can offer more bespoke courses for those looking to improve.

Clean Living

As you are all aware, Blue Planet Divers is an Eco Resort with Project Aware and we are committed to protecting the underwater environment we love so much. So once again in September we will be supporting the Greenfins and the Project Aware initiatives to clean up the beaches and waters surrounding Koh Lanta.

Last year we organised the clean up of Klong Dao Beach and could not believe how much and what we picked up that day. Over 270kilos of Flip Flops!!!!!! It was a great day and we all really enjoyed ourselves as well as doing something really positive for the island and the environment, so if you are here in September, be sure to join us.

Sled Freediving is here

Last year was our best ever year for Freediving Courses and saw the success of our Freediving Competition (which we intend to run again at the beginning of February).  So this year we are improving our facilities by creating a dedicated Freediving Training Room and offering Sled Freediving.

For those of you who have never heard of this, most Freediving disciplines require the diver to use either fins or to swim down, whereas Sled Freediving uses a Sleigh to pull the diver down. This saves energy and enables the diver to achieve greater depths.

Why not gain your AIDA Freediving Qualification with us this high season, every guest we had last year was so impressed with what they were able to achieve with just a few days training.