MV Scuba Cat is an ideal scuba diving platform. The design in stability is only found in a very large catamaran liveaboard boat. She operates amongst the protected waters of the Similan Islands making this the most "friendly" boat to be found...seasickness is rare. From only 12,000 Baht per person.
Scuba Cat Diving, Phuket, Thailand
Mike Stark, the founder of Scuba Cat Diving, started diving in 1974 in the cold water of Canada and decided to come to Phuket, Thailand in the early 90's. Since beginning operations in 1992 Scuba Cat Diving has become Phuket, Thailand's most complete dive centre with the first liveaboard in the Similan Islands.
Sarah Kench, formerly a Senior Manager with HSBC in England, decided to change her life, came to Scuba Dive in Phuket, Thailand in 2004 after spending several years diving in the cold water of England and leading dive holidays to the Red Sea, Caribbean Islands, Dominican Republic, Malaysia, Mexico, Indonesia and the Philippines. After one trip to the Similan Islands on board our liveaboard MV Scuba Cat she starting work in the company afer completing her PADI IDC and aspired to one day own Scuba Cat Diving and this became a reality in 2007.
Scuba Cat Diving, Phuket, Thailand is known worldwide for training quality and customer services, and have an excellent reputation within the diving industry for producing first class and highly employable PADI Instructors from their PADI IDCs.
Scuba Cat Diving, Phuket, Thailand is a 5 Star PADI CDC Center and has been a 5 Star PADI IDC center for more than a decade running a PADIIDC 11 times a year.
Scuba Cat Diving, Phuket Thailand has a resident PADI Platinum Course Director, Christophe Pace to conduct PADI IDC courses.
Scuba Cat Diving, Phuket, Thailand operates 2 liveaboards year round in the Similans, Surin Islands and all the best dive sites in the Andaman Sea, Thailand. One daytrip boat to the best dive sites around Phuket and Koh Phi Phi Island, Thailand.
Scuba Cat Diving, Phuket, Thailand teaches tec diving including Gas Blender, DSAT Tec Rec, Trimix, and rebreather courses up to Instructor level. Many of these causes are onboard our own liveaboard MV Scuba Cat in the Similan Islands at no extra cost.
Scuba Cat Diving, Phuket, Thailand have Nitrox and Trimix diving capabilities.
Scuba Cat Diving, Phuket, Thailand has Scuba Tank filling stations to be confident of both land based and aboard our daytrip and liveaboard boats.
Scuba Cat Diving, Phuket Thailand is the only PADI 5 Star CDC Center based on Patong Beach, this is the highest PADI Dive Center achievement possible. PADI CDC distinguishes us from the rest.
Scuba Cat Diving, Phuket Thailand are proud to have comprehensive diver training facilities and a well located dive shop on Patong Beach including 5 fully equipped classrooms catering for students of all levels and a dedicated scuba dive training swimming pool. All levels of PADI courses are available.
Scuba Cat Diving, Phuket, Thailand conducts all levels of PADI courses aboard our liveaboard MV Scuba Cat during the Summer Season at no extra cost.
Scuba Cat Diving, Phuket, Thailand pride ourselves on catering for the individual beginner diver to the most technical diving addict with many tec dives conducted from our liveaboard boat MV Scuba Cat.
Scuba Cat Diving, Phuket, Thailand teach all the PADI Courses, Instructor Development Courses (IDC) and other instructor courses. PADI is the largest scuba diving organization in the world. As a PADI professional diver you will find work in more than 180 countries in the world.
Scuba Cat Diving, Phuket, Thailand offers the most complete Career Packages in Thailand. We give the opportunity to our candidates to have a wide view of the dive industry. Diving is everywhere. Our candidates get liveaboard experience in the Similan Islands or the Andaman Sea.
Scuba Cat Diving, Phuket, Thailand offer a range all inclusive Diving Internship packages.
Scuba Cat Diving, Phuket, Thailand was the first National Geographic Center in Phuket - another high dive center status offered through PADI.
Scuba Cat Diving, Phuket, Thailand is an active Green Fins Member and has an active Reef Check team.
Scuba Cat Diving, Phuket, Thailand is proud to have adopted a reef in the Similan Islands which is regularly checked from both of our liveaboard boats.
Scuba Cat Diving, Phuket, Thailand owns and operates a fleet of dive boats to provide the most enjoyable of day trip diving, liveaboards, and snorkeling. We are innovators of a variety of diving products in the area; "often imitated - never copied" for liveaboard diving in the Similans Islands and during Green Season.
Compared with most "dive centers" in Thailand (a lot of them is just a website - a "Virtual Dive Company") - Scuba Cat owns their own fleet of diving boats and have been in operation since 1994. If you do a Course or a Dive Career Package with us, all your dives will be from one of our own dive boats, not "we got to do a beach dive, 'cause it is not enough students" or from a "last minute rented long tail boat, 'cause all the other boats are full".
Scuba Cat Receives Project AWARE Foundation Environmental Achievement Award 2006.