Tech Diving Thailand

03/09/2026

Steel or Aluminum: What’s your tank of choice? 🤿

Choosing the right scuba tank comes down to your diving habits, travel needs, and maintenance style:

27/08/2026

Thinking about teaching through another tra

One of the biggest misconceptions we hear is...
"I'd have to start all over again."
The good news? You don't.
With NovoScuba, your existing instructor qualifications and teaching experience are recognised, making crossover simpler than most instructors expect.
✅ FREE instructor crossover
✅ Existing qualifications recognised
✅ Existing teaching experience recognised
✅ No need to repeat your training
✅ Simple online application
✅ Support from our team every step of the way
✅ No exclusivity – continue teaching with your current agency too
Most instructors are surprised by just how quick and straightforward the process really is.
If you've been curious about NovoScuba, now is the perfect time to see what we're all about.
👉 Learn more about our FREE Instructor Crossover Programme today.

23/08/2026

Currently doing photography and videography of all your diving courses, including Open Water, Specialities and Technical diving courses, including videos of Full Cave Diving Packages and Trimix courses with Dive Centres around Koh Tao. We have Insta360, GoPro 12 and Canon EOS M, for doing videography and photography underwater.

21/08/2026

19/08/2026

19/08/2026

Shh... don’t tell anyone, but we have a little secret...

You might not know this, but under all the engineering and tough materials, we actually build gear to help you catch a bit of magic.

Case in point: Cenote Xuxi. No special effects, just a STEALTH 2.0 CLASSIC harness doing what it does best while the light beam does the rest.

photo: Natalie L Gibb | Under the Jungle
diver: Alicia Christman

19/08/2026

This image captures the moment a diver's worst nightmare becomes reality. Leaving the preserved graveyard and attempting to exit, the technical diver has accidentally disturbed the ultra-fine silt bed. The image is almost entirely choked by a thick, brown, swirling occlusion.

The previous images showcased distinct zones defined by chemistry, but the most immediate 'death zone' in any cave is physical visibility. The floor of these ancient blue holes is covered in meters of extremely fine, light carbonate silt, accumulated over millennia. Because the water is so still, this silt has the consistency of talcum powder.

In this shot, the diver has made a critical error, perhaps a single powerful fin stroke too close to the floor while navigating an exit. The silt is now a localized, zero-visibility emergency. The powerful primary dive lights are useless, just bright white cones reflecting off the impenetrable brown cloud. Total silt-out conditions are instant and claustrophobic. If the diver loses contact with the exploratory line, they are blind and lost in a three-dimensional maze. Panic is the final killer here; if the diver cannot calmly find the line by touch, they will rapidly exhaust their breathing gas, transforming this silt cloud into their final resting place.

17/08/2026

They were searching for a body. Then someone answered from the darkness.

Erasto Crisanto Valdez disappeared while fishing in a Mexican cenote. After 15 days of unsuccessful searching, specialist cave divers entered the difficult underwater system and eventually heard his voice from inside a dry chamber.

He was alive.

Our report looks at how the operation changed from a search and recovery mission into an extraordinary cave-diving rescue.

🤿 👉 https://buff.ly/z03FSUs