Big Bubble Dive Resort Koh Tao Thailand
Saturday, September 27th, 2008
Diving with Big Bubble
Welcome to Big Bubble Dive Resort! On your endless quest to find the perfect destination for your next diving vacation, you have found one of the longest established dive centers on Koh Tao, in Thailand. Even though we have modernized our facilities and streamlined our services over the many years, we do our best to keep the spirit of the “good old days” of Turtle Island up and running. This is only a part of what makes us different to the other dive centers on Koh Tao.
We will always offer our guests a relaxed and laid back atmosphere and super chilled out diving for both, scuba diving lessons and fun dives!
You can, for example, start your diving adventures by simply discovering scuba diving on a sunny afternoon. This is really cool and anybody can do it! A PADI professional will be at your side during the whole scuba diving introduction. Once you found out how great it feels, to breathe under water, to behave like a fish and to float weightless like an astronaut in space, you can easily go on to the next step and get a real PADI scuba diving certification in only a few days. The PADI Open Water Diving Course is worldwide recognized, so that once you have been certified, you can go diving with a dive buddy, anywhere in the world! If you care to widen your underwater experience, you must try our newest fun; UV Diving
Why learn to dive with Big Bubble?
- Our highly trained staff sets great value upon safety for all divers and snorkelers.
- We teach and set standards on marine biology and environmental awareness.
- We offer all PADI Scuba Diving Courses in many languages.
- We guarantee that you will dive in a small group and enjoy a great service!
- Our dive schedule allows smaller groups and longer dive times for our fun divers.
- We ride on a big dive boat with lots of space to gear up. We call it “Big Boat”
- We offer all our students the best individual dive education possible.
- We provide high class dive equipment and comfortable air cooled classrooms.
- We start later in the morning to avoid crowded dive sites and give you some rest.
- Big Bubble is an international PADI 5 Star Dive Resort with a spotless reputation.
- We have successfully conducted scuba diving courses for more than 15 years.
- Big Bubbles’ scuba diving packages are amongst the best on Koh Tao.
- We additionally offer all services like – accommodation and tickets for bus, train or plane!
- But most of all; diving with Big Bubble is relaxed, free of worries and a lot more FUN than anywhere else!
For more information about Big Bubble Dive Resort, scuba diving courses and the island Koh Tao itself, visit also: www.bigbubble.info To stay informed about new events on Koh Tao and new developments on this website, subscribe to our RSS Newsletter here.
Koh Tao will soon have a new wreck for your diving adventures! The Navi ship to be sunk on the 18th of June is called HMS Satakut. The vessel is 48 meters long with a beam of 7 meters. The total height of the wreck from the keel to the top of the mast is 18 meters. It was agreed by all who were involved that the best site for the wreck would be located on the west side of Koh Tao on a location south of ‘Hin Pee Wee pinnacle’.
Lorena comes from Switzerland and she is living her dream.After 2 years being Head Divemaster at Big Bubble, it was time to change. She enjoys teaching and having fun with her Open Water students from their first bubble at 1meter to their last bubbles at 18meters. Lorena speaks Italian, German and English, so no matter who you are or where you come from, she is going to have fun with you in the classroom and in the water. She is a happy shiny person. Lorenas passion reaches from the tinyest pipefish to the big whalshark and is always trying to find new and interesting things. In the morning she is like Speedy Gonzales you can really see here Italians roots. Come and join her at Big Bubble and soon you will be on a super cool underwater adventure too.
Coming from Grimsby, in England, Chill “knows” fish! (Albeit fried in batter and served with chips and mushy peas!) He is a real Grimbarian! After traveling the world for 12 years and working in any job that would pay for the next part of the journey, Chill settled here over 4 years ago, when he came to Big Bubble and realized a career in diving would be far better than working for a living!
Since his first “Giant Stride” into the water and as competitive swimmer for most of his life , Gorka knew that somehow he will spend the rest of his life in close relation with the Underwater Environment. So he became Big Bubble’s Head Dive Master. Although he is a certfied PADI diving instructor, he prefers to work as Divemaster. As a former schoolteacher, he brings the professionalism of teaching into Scuba Diving. He will take good care of our certified Divers and our Advanced Open Water Students. Teaching them to become better diver, being confident on a dive deeper, navigate a dive or experience a thrilling Night Dive. If you are already a certified diver Gorka is the right person for you, he will bring you to new Dive Sites every day and show you the secrets and wonders of the Underwater World around Koh Tao. Gorka is a friendly, open and professional Dive Guide and diving instructor who always has a smile on his face. He is helpful and will look after any of your diving-related needs. Any questions you mmight have; don’t hesitate…..just ask him!!!
Phil is from Germany, to be exact from Berlin.
Afraid of Sharks ? HE WAS TOO!!! Tom, our Bavarian Hill-Billy came to Koh Tao the first time 1993 and stuck here since then. The first 6 years we had a hard time to get him in the water. He was very scared to get eaten by the numerous Great Whites around here Koh Tao. In 2000 we tossed him in the water and forced him to do his Open Water Diver Diving Course. And suddenly he changed, and his life changed too! – Sharks became his friends and his diving skills became exceptional and in 2002 he did his Diving Instructor Course. Since that time he taught more then 850 students scuba diving on different levels. Also his German improved a lot, but you can still hear his Bavarian roots. In Thai they say – Chai Yen – what means ‘cool heart’; he is calm understanding and very skilled. Twisting words is one of his favored hobbies. Today he says: “If you don’t want to see sharks.. just close your eyes”. 
Mio is our Longtail Driver, he is the one who will bring you with our Longtail to the Big Boat. Sometimes he is a bit grumpy but he has a good heart and is one of the most experienced Longtail Captains on the Island. Mio works with Big Bubble since … nobody can really remember…! Since more than 15 years has he been driving scuba divers and snorkelers around Koh Tao.
Kwan is the good soul in our dive shop and travel office. She will arange all boat, bus, train or flight tickets to any destination to make sure you have no problems and can enjoy your holiday without any booking hassel. Kwan is also responsible for all administrative tasks in our dive resort. So if you want to pay your fun dives or 
Pi Deng is the captain of our Big Boat and he is the one who will make sure that you arrive safely on all dive sites we go to. He lives on the boat, cooks his food there and has his family is visiting him occasionally.
Chip is our boat technician, he is the one who is filling the tanks for your dives with clean fresh sea air. If you need help to get in or out of the water he is happy to be there for you. Since he is always smiling, Chip takes also a stunt part on almost every dive video.
