We are Pattaya's only family-run British PADI dive centre. Dave Chandler (now retired)started it all more than 20 years ago when he came to Pattaya on holiday and decided to learn to dive. He enjoyed it so much that he sold his publishing company,retired early and emigrated to Thailand.
Later sons Neil and Peter followed him out from England and he trained them to become PADI instructors. Dave ran Elite Divers, which later changed it's name to Diving Thailand.
Neil and Peter opened Real Divers in 2004 and later linked their business to Diving Thailand to make Diving Thailand with Real Divers. Dave's Thai wife Gift runs the marketing and also organises trips for holidaymakers to swim with trained dolphins.
The scuba trainingv team is headed up by by Neil and Peter at Real Divers, in Beach Road, Jomtien, just south of bustling Pattaya. Neil and Peter are two of Pattaya's most experienced divers with a 100 per cent safety record after thousands of dives on all the local sites.
They have day trips to Pattaya's offshore islands and also to Samaesan, 45 minutes by road south. This means they can take customers out for a wreck dive followed by a reef dive
Why Pattaya ?
Pattaya is a great place to learn to dive, with good coral reefs in 5-10metres and water that stays around 30c for most of the year. But it is not world class diving and many divers come to Pattaya because it offers so much more for the non-divers in the family. It also offers a much softer "culture shock" for Westerners who have never been to Thailand before.
They can buy the food they are used to in their own country as there are many restaurants run by expats from nearly every corner of the world. There are international hospitals, department stores, multi-plex cinemas and the best value-for-money hotels to be found anywhere in the world.
The non-divers can do anything from driving a hot racing kart, play world class golf, go deep sea fishing, bungee jump, paintball wars, microlite flying, crocodile farms, tropical gardens, sapphire mines, visit Thai temples tropical gardens...and then there is the world-famous Pattaya nightlife scene.
After unwinding and devoting some time to the family and enjoying a few day trips to the coral islands off Pattaya you might think about moving on to Phuket or Koh Tao, which at the right time of the year, can offer great diving. But check with us first to ensure that conditions down there are OK as Pattaya is the only Thai venue that enjoys year-round diving.
We can recommend or book you in with dive shops we know and trust in those areas.To get in touch with us ring Gift on: 06 558 7137 . The Real Divers shop is in Jomtien Beach Road at Welcome Resort. Visit their website at:
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