Dive Op that allows for kids?

[ozymandias_kok]

We're taking a trip mid-March to Phuket and wanted to at least do a dive refresher course, maybe more. Last dive was pre-kids, and they are 10 and 12 now. I think they're still a bit young and inexperienced on open water. Is there any kind of operation that would maybe also have snorkeling or something while people dive?

 

[JonnieB]

Most of the day trip boats in Phulet accommodate non-divers and snorkelers. The Racha Island trips are ideal, where they will drop them off in the shallows and take the divers to deeper sites. Seabees is one operation you can book directly. The other boats you book through a local dive shop in Phuket.

 

[Centrals]

We're taking a trip mid-March to Phuket and wanted to at least do a dive refresher course, maybe more. Last dive was pre-kids, and they are 10 and 12 now. I think they're still a bit young and inexperienced on open water. Is there any kind of operation that would maybe also have snorkeling or something while people dive?

You are going to do at least a refresher course so enquire with the operator you have in mind.
There are plenty operators in Phuket so a few e-mails should give you some ideas.

 

[ozymandias_kok]

Most of the day trip boats in Phulet accommodate non-divers and snorkelers. The Racha Island trips are ideal, where they will drop them off in the shallows and take the divers to deeper sites. Seabees is one operation you can book directly. The other boats you book through a local dive shop in Phuket.

Thanks!

 

[diveUAE]

We’ve traveled with our kids for many years. Finding a center, who will let you dive, while the kids stay on the boat can be difficult.

Also consider this: would you be happy diving, while your kids snorkel somewhere else? I would not even consider that - unless there was a private snorkel guide (we did this in Komodo a few years ago, when our youngest was 12.)

What we have done during the years: hired a sitter (while kids were young), take turn diving, so 1 parent is always with the kids. Leave kids at resort - in room with plenty of dvd’s (before iPad/iPhone etc) or at kids club.

At 10 both the older got certified- our youngest has problems with the eustatic tube and still can’t equalise.

My best recommendation with kids 10 and 12: get them certified and diving with you (if you feel they would be mature enough of course)

 

[OMyMyOHellYes]

My best recommendation with kids 10 and 12: get them certified and diving with you (if you feel they would be mature enough of course)

Wish I would have had the opportunity to get cert'ed in my pre-teen years. At that time I spent all the time I could in my neighbor's pool with my TG&Y dime store mask shagging the pennies I threw in up from the bottom of the deep end.