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On Koh Lanta, in the
South of Thailand,
we started Lanta
Diver in 1998. In the
few years which
have gone by since
then we are pleased
to note that Koh
Lanta has not fallen
in to usual dismal
traps which so often
is the case when a
new holiday
location starts to
develop. Here on
our website we
hope that non divers as well as divers will find some useful information about the island. As we are a 5 star IDC dive centre arranging courses as well as daytrips and live-aboards we have obviously dedicated a lot of spacefor diving.
 
The best dive sites in Thailand
The hard part about describing Koh Lanta is the difficulty in being fair to this beautiful island. Koh Lanta is about 20 km (as the bird flies) long and a few kilometres wide. The fantastic beaches succeed each other along the west coast of the island and in the last few years the selection of bungalows of varying standard and of activities has improved considerably. Our dive sites are the same as before, the same dive sites which made the leading dive guide author Paul A. Rees rank the dive sites around Koh Lanta as
 some of the best in Thailand. We fully agree with him, after having dived many different sites of the world it was no coincidence that we choose Koh Lanta as a base for our operation.
 
PADI Five Star IDC Center
Lanta Diver is affiliated with PADI, the worlds largest dive organisation. Lanta Diver is also the first and only five star dive centre on the island. Our five stars
we acquired after having been
awarded PADI recognition
awards for quality of
education, service and range
of sales and equipment and
also for efforts made in
trying to improve and
maintain the marine
environment. At the onset
of the 2001-2002 season
we moved in to newly built
premises in the village of
Saladan on the northern tip
of Koh Lanta. We now
welcome you to an air-
conditioned dive centre
in three storeys. On the
ground floor at street level
you will find a full range dive retail shop. On the second and third floor we have our fully equipped (also nice and cool!) classrooms. Last season (2002-2003) also acquired a two story building across the  road from our Dive center. In this
building we now have all our
rental equipment, plenty of
space for divers with their
own equipment to hang
theirs and also a large
workshop where our full
time Technician can
service and make
adjustments to your
equipment. On the top
floor we also have our large modern fully equipped IDC classroom as well as smaller study rooms all air-conditioned of course.

On the eve of the 2002-2003 season we have, together with Noble House Resort, built the first full depth swimming pool on Koh Lanta. At Noble House we also have an air conditioned fully equipped classroom.

In conjunction with this we
introduced another
dimension to our already
extensive education
program. – The IDC a
complete instructor
development course.
This means that you can

now go all the way from Open Water to Instructor with Lanta Diver.

Once again we hope that you will enjoy our website and find it informative. Skim through the pages that interest you and print what you think might be useful during your visit to Thailand. And over and above everything else WELCOME TO KOH LANTA.

Guest book and diary
We try to keep the diary updated, Ulf is in charge of this and you will from time to time find some exiting information about sightings, events and news in general here.
Please visit and write in our guestbook, an active guestbook makes the site so much more alive! However, please note; direct questions, bookings and queries will be processed faster if you send us a mail (scuba@lantadiver.com or for bookings maj-britt@lantadiver.com ) instead!

 
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