Who in Pattaya should I use for an easy tec dive to work on my rusty skills before doing some big technical dives?
I'm going to be in Bangkok for a while shortly before I go off to do some technical diving. After several years and a few hundred dives with the old wetsuit, now I've got a new wetsuit -- and I rarely dive doubles -- so I would like to spend a dive or two just getting my buoyancy control perfected with a twinset and deco bottles and my doubles wing. I also usually just use one deco bottle for my shallowish tech dives, so I want to work a bit on doing gas switches with two deco bottles rather than one, because I haven't done that for a long while.
Who in Pattaya do you recommend to help me out with that? From a cost standpoint, I have in mind just tagging along on the boat taking recreational divers to the Khram or the Hardeep or something, and then I and a local professional do a tech dive while the others on the boat do two recreational no-stop dives.
Is Mermaids my best option? What's Roger Smith doing now that Aquanauts lost its PADI membership (or so I read, here on scubaboard)? Or can you recommend someone else? I haven't been to Pattaya for about 7 years so I could use a recommendation. PM me if you prefer that to posting.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
I'm going to be in Bangkok for a while shortly before I go off to do some technical diving. After several years and a few hundred dives with the old wetsuit, now I've got a new wetsuit -- and I rarely dive doubles -- so I would like to spend a dive or two just getting my buoyancy control perfected with a twinset and deco bottles and my doubles wing. I also usually just use one deco bottle for my shallowish tech dives, so I want to work a bit on doing gas switches with two deco bottles rather than one, because I haven't done that for a long while.
Who in Pattaya do you recommend to help me out with that? From a cost standpoint, I have in mind just tagging along on the boat taking recreational divers to the Khram or the Hardeep or something, and then I and a local professional do a tech dive while the others on the boat do two recreational no-stop dives.
Is Mermaids my best option? What's Roger Smith doing now that Aquanauts lost its PADI membership (or so I read, here on scubaboard)? Or can you recommend someone else? I haven't been to Pattaya for about 7 years so I could use a recommendation. PM me if you prefer that to posting.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.