Sea Fun Divers Phuket Team - Candy

Name:  Candy (aka Qiulijun)

Role: Born in Daqing, China, close to the Russian border, and then growing up in Beijing. Candy is Sea Funs' Chinese speaking Dive Instructor.

She speaks English and Mandarin.


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Candy first learnt to dive in Phuket in March 2009. Now having some 300 dives she became an instructor last October under the wing of Sea Funs Course Director Bent.

She lives out here with her American Fiancé and enjoys all good food especially Mexican Food, (No FISH!) and the occasional beer . Candy is currently learning Thai and has an Accounting Degree.

As the Chinese tourism market grows, Sea Fun Divers is one of the first Dive Centers on Phuket to offer a Chinese speaking dive instructor.

Favourite Thailand Dive Site: Richelieu Rock

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喜帆潜水中心坐落于小卡伦海滩的艾美酒店度假村和小卡塔海滩的卡塔塔尼酒店度假村，是普吉岛最高端的潜店。

二十多位经验丰富的教练，十几种语言环境下的教学，舒适、专业的训练泳池......

欢迎您搭乘我们的私家潜船”幸运号“，体验普吉最高规格的潜水之旅。

我们的中文课程负责人邱俐君来自中国大陆。于2011年师从普吉传奇人物 PADI 白金课程总监 Bent Posejpal 成为PADI 开放水域潜水员教练，于2012年7月成为 PADI 参谋教练开始参与喜帆潜水中心的教练课程培训。同时，她也是 PADI 名仕潜水员训练官以及多项专长潜水课程训练官。

从体验水肺潜水项目到救援潜水员，从潜水长到教练课程；不论您是潜水活动的爱好者，还是打算把潜水职业化，我们会提供您需要的一切帮助以及经验。

最详尽的教学，最舒适的行程，最豪华的设施，让您的学习轻松，也充满乐趣。

从今天开始，计划您的潜水之旅，规划您的潜水职业，开始享受大海，享受不一样的人生！

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Sea Fun Divers Phuket Team - René Christoffersen

Rene (right) with Open Water Students

Name : René Christoffersen

From : Copenhagen, Denmark

Languages : Scandinavian, English.

First Dive : 1986 Bali, Indonesia

PADI DM: 2005 Koh Tao, Thailand

PADI OWSI: 2006 Phuket, Thailand

Current certification: PADI  MSDT Instructor
Specialties - DAN O2 Provider, Deep Diver, DPV, DUP, EFRI & CFC w/AED, Enriched  Air Diver, Night Diver, Tec Rec Gasblender, Wreck Diver Instructor.

René joined Sea Fun Divers 2011

Prior to diving René worked in the pharmaceutical industry.

Favorite Dive site: Richelieu Rock

Favorite Local Dive site: Shark Point

Hobby: Underwater Photography   

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New Open Water Divers

Sea Fun Divers very own Instructor Rene on the way back from Phi Phi Island with Michael and Liliye who have just completed their PADI Open Water Course.

Rene with new OW Divers Michael & Liliye

How to get there - Sea Fun Divers Le Meridien

Sea Fun Divers operates out of two 4 Star Hotels on the West Coast of Phuket. The main office is in Le Meridian Hotel which is in Karon.

Finding Sea Fun Divers, Le Meridien.

There is one main road running between Patong and Chalong. Going North to South, leaving Patong you will pass through Karon and then Kata before into Chalong. This is called Patak Road.

Coming From Patong Beach:

From the Southern end of the ring-road in Patong, turn left, away from the beach. After 500 meters you will get to a cross roads, turn right, you are now on Patak Road.
Leaving Patong, you will notice more greenery and then you will start to climb a hill. As you go down the other side you will pass an elephant camp on your left. Pass this and look for the right turn to Le Meridien. Start going up hill again and you have gone to far.

View of Le Meridian sign coming from Patong

Coming From Chalong, Kata or Karon:

From Chalong Circle (Roundabout) take the road North towards Kata, Karon and Patong. This is the Patak Road. Stay on the road for 6 km. You will pass over a mountain and down the other side into Kata. Going through some traffic lights you will leave Kata and enter Karon. Passing through Karon you will arrive at a roundabout. Turn right, you are still on the Patak Road. Rising up into the mountains again you will have the coast on your left. After travelling about 1 km in the mountains you will be able to see a large white building with a green roof down at sea level, this is the Meridien Hotel. After travelling downhill for a way you will see a turning on the left sign posted to Le Meridien. If you pass an elephant camp on your right, you have gone too far.

View of Le Meridian sign coming from Karon Beach

From Le Meriden Entrance:

Once turned onto the side road, after 100 meters, you will be stopped at the entrance gate to the hotel. Tell the staff that you want to visit Sea Fun Divers and they will let you through. Pass the first turning on the right to staff accommodation but take the right hand fork which will take you down to a car park. Cars on the left and bikes on the right. From here you are on foot. Go back to the road that entered the car park and carry on walking downhill towards the beach. Through another gate you then have the hotel on your left and a golf pitch and putt on your right.

Sea Fun Divers Dive Center

Sea Fun Divers office is in the far corner of the building, right on the beach. If you have got sandy feet you have gone too far. (Or just wanted to have a look at the beautiful “Relax Bay”)

Le Meridian Dive Center on Google Maps:


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Sea Fun Divers Phuket Team - Giel

Name : Giel Wevers

Giel Wevers

Role : Sea Fun Instructor / Back up Tour Leader

From : Maastricht, Netherlands

Languages : English, German, Dutch and Bahasa Indonesian.

Dive History

First Dive : In Holland in 1998
Became an Instructor in 2001 in Indonesia in Lombok and the Gilly Islands.

Giel came to Thailand in 2004 but then returned home for 9 months due to the Tsunami. He joined Sea Fun Divers in 2009.

Before diving : From the age of 14 to 25 Giel worked in a restaurant in Maasricht. He then actually moved to Indonesia to manage a restaurant and it was from here that he also became a Dive Instructor and left the catering industry.

His hobbies include underwater photography, reading and the cinema.

Favourite local dive site is Shark Point and further afield Hin Daeng & Hin Muang

PADI Certificate of Excellence in May 2012

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Sea Fun Divers Phuket Team - Boris

Boris de Fauconval

Name : Boris de Fauconval

Role : Sea Fun Tour Leader

Born in Athens, Greece but of Belgian nationality

Raised in Thailand, Koh Phi Phi since he was 8 years old.

Languages : Thai, English, French and some Japanese

First Dived on his birthday, when he was 14 years old off of Koh Phi Phi

Boris became an instructor with Bent on Phi Phi back in 2000 and has only ever worked in the diving industry.

His favorite diving at his home reef Phi Phi. 

Boris spent 2 years in Japan and travelled a lot around the world. He has freedived and Scuba-dived in Thailand, Japan, Hawaii, Belgium and Indonesia.He has skydived New-Zealand and Belgium.

Hobbies include Skydiving, Martial Arts and Snowboarding, loves all X-trem Sports.

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Customer Reviews - Klaus-Stefan

Review from Klaus-Stefan, who is diving with Sea Fun's day trip now than 3 years ...

"Hallo Ingo, das Boot ist fabelhaft, wirklich. Aus meiner Sicht seid Ihr in Phuket nach wie vor konkurrenzlos gut! 

Boris ist immer noch ein grandioser Teamleader. Und meine Tauchgänge mit Pae waren wieder ein tolles Erlebnis. Also ich war rundum zufrieden!

Beste Grüße und alles Gute 

Klaus-Stefan"

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Sea Fun Divers Phuket Team - Priaw

Priaw

Name : Priaw Singto

From : Nakornpathon, Thailand. (Just South of Bangkok)

Role : Sea Fun Divers Katathani Administration

Dive History :
Priaw became an Open Water Diver with South East Asia Divers and started working for Sea Fun in October 2005.

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IDC Phuket

Course Directors; Bent Posejpal, Thomas Roehn and Duck Koo Han with their April 2012 IDC candidates at Le Meridien Phuket Beach resort.

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PADI Certificate of excellence for Sea Fun Divers

PADI Certificate of excellence for Sea Fun Divers

Image below including hand written note on it from Henrik Nimb VP of PADI

Certificate of Excellence

Thanks to David Jack who told PADI about his excellent time at Sea Fun Divers.

Customer Reviews - Tommaso

Copy of a review posted on Scuba Board

Hi to everyone! Just a quick review of a dive centre:
Sea Fun Divers, in Patong, Phuket, Thailand.

I am not a very experienced diver (amateur - 39 dives in 4 years), with Advanced Open Water Diver certificate and Nitrox, Deep, Wreck specilaizations.

I don't have enough experience to review the technical ability of the dive guides but I want to say how great my experience with this Dive Centre was:
- Equipment: middle of the range and very new & clean - everyone gets their own, new, mouth piece.
- Dive Guides Pea and Boris: they seem to be able to find ANYTHING under water!! They let everyone get on with their own pre dive preparations and checks but, when less experienced divers make mistakes, they correct them. Under water we enjoyed the same liberty with the same non intrusive safety spervision and we were always pointed out all the points of interest.
- Boat: clean, new, w/ on board compressor, A/C, breakfast & lunch included and free drinks/coffee/snaks all day. Very, very comfortable to dive from, and return to, with hot water shower! Nice experience.
- Nick (owner) is very flexible to accommodate any requirement. Just ask...
- Prices are slightly higher than other local dive centres but the quality is much higher - therefore the value for money is good.
- In short, very clean, new, safe and enjoyable dive centre.
HIGHLY recommended. The best in Asia as far as my experience goes (admittedly not much)!

Smiles!

Tommaso 

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The Reef at Kata Beach

Kata Beach Diving

At the North end of Kata Beach there is reef which can be seen breaking the surface at low tied. It is shallow, large and well worth exploring either with a mask & snorkel or, as I prefer, with scuba equipment. Even if you have never dived before. In high season (November to April), this is a perfect spot to do a PADI Discover Scuba Diver course.

The reef itself is mainly hard corals such as Lobed pore coral, brain corals and bush corals. Some soft corals can also be found along with Sea Anemones populated with Skunk Anemone fish.

Kata Reef always seems to come up with something on every dive which makes it so interesting. Just last week in one dive I found: cuttlefish, razor fish, ornate ghost pipe fish and bent stick pipefish. Juvenile, adolescent and fully grown oriental sweetlips and regular schools of Forster's Barracuda circulate slowly above. Huge schools of catfish, sea horses and harlequin shrimp have all been seen on the reef on other occasions.

Qualified or not, it is always best to dive with a guide or instructor to be kept safe from potential dangers but also to see the best things down there. Contact us here at Sea Fun Divers and we can arrange this and any dive equipment for you.

Once you get dropped at the beach, get yourself kitted up leaving your mask, snorkel and fins to carry. Don't forget to arrange your pick up time, then do your buddy checks and walk straight across the beach from the ramp directly info the sea. Walk in until about waist deep and then put your mask and fins on. Look straight out to sea. You will see a white buoy 150 – 200 meters out. Lay on your back and take a casual swim out to the buoy. Once there catch your breath if you need to and then descend down the line. For safety take a Divers Buoy with you as there can be some boat and jet-ski traffic. Once down on the bottom, about 2 meters deep, head North Westerly. In a couple of minutes you will pick up the reef and, I suggest, follow it out deeper keeping the reef on your right and the sand underneath you.

I usually follow the reef out for about 30 minutes, or until I have used about 75 – 80 bar of air, and then come back in over the top of the reef. At high tied your maximum depth will be no more than 9 meters so you can do really long dives here if you wish.

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Customer Reviews - Vassili

Happy Vassili enjoyed diving in Similan Islands on board MV South Siam IV and our day trip boat.  


"Good Day

 Sorry for late response, I had long business trip to Latvia, Germany and Lithuania. I have really enjoyed my diving with Sea Fun Divers. 

Vassili in Similan

I choose about three months between different dive centers and glad to say that my choice was absolutely right.  I’m not able to comment liveaboard trip to Similans because that was my first safari adventure. 

Except one thing : it was great! Pleasant craft, trained crew, friendly divers team, helpful guide, great atmosphere onboard. I have got positive shot in my heart. As for daily trip that was organized and performed at highest level I met during last 10 years. 

To say honestly most of dive centers I are doing money with newborn divers. That is much easier and more profitable then to try to satisfy advanced divers. 

Sea Fun Divers targeted to make enjoyable each dive for everyone. That was much appreciated. Thank you very much for diving! 

Best regards, 

Vassili"

More pictures about Vassili's Similan trip on our facebook page. 

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