Tuesday, January 3, 2012

5 facts you didn't know about diving in Thailand

By James Carver


The very first ever expert dive centre opened in Pattaya in 1975 but diving in Thailand really began in 1962. The Thailand Sub Aqua Club was founded by an Englishman together with two Thai company partners. The club was extremely well-liked and was soon patronised by the Minister of Tourism.

Divers began to discover the island of Phuket shortly following and nowadays the Similan Islands claim to become the very best diving spot in Thailand and are ranked as 1 from the leading ten diving websites within the globe. On the other side of Thailand, the island of Ko Tao is now the greatest diving destination in Thailand with more than twenty dive centres situated on the island. Ko Tao really indicates turtle island, it covers an region of about 21km. There isn't any airport on Ko Tao so guests arriving by air ought to fly into Ko Samui and travel to Ko Tao by ferry.

Statistics show that more than 200,000 tourists go diving in Thailand every year. Every tourist spends an typical of 1,200 USD on their diving trip to Thailand. You are able to expertise an encounter having a whale shark, the greatest fish within the globe, while diving in Thailand. Whale sharks are solitary creatures, so if you are hoping for 1 to hang about you then touching them or swimming following them will only drive them away. If you're lucky sufficient to determine 1 you need to maintain as calm and nonetheless as feasible so as not to frighten it.

Scuba diving is Thailand's most well-liked water sport and also the primary hub for diving in Southeast Asia. A large number of individuals discover to dive in Thailand each and every year and turn out to be avid divers for life. Thailand is among the greatest diving destinations within the globe and 40% of Thailand's tourism revenue comes from divers.

Scuba diving was invented throughout WWII by a French navy officer. He created this equipment to allow the navy to plant underwater bombs with out becoming detected by the Germans. To be able to minimise the impact of extreme cold water at deeper depths, Jacques created the wet suit which permits divers to dive at a higher depth in cold water.




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