The goals of the Club are:

The Minimum Recommended Diving Prices for all KT-DOC members:

Prices per Scuba Diving Course:

DISCOVER SCUBA DIVING  2000 B - OPEN WATER 9000 B - ADVANCED OPEN WATER 7800 B - EMERGENCY FIRST RESPONSE 3000B - RESCUE 8800 B - DIVEMASTER 25000 B

Prices include: Full professional instruction, use of all required study materials and equipment and certification.

Discounted accommodation provided during courses at these rates:

Fan room min 200B per night - Air-con room min 500B per night.

10% discount is given on all follow up courses with the same dive school and students are also entitled to discounted Fun Dives.

Prices per Fun Dive: 1 Dive 1000 B - 2-5 Dives 900 B - 6-9 Dives 800 B 10+Dives 700 B.

Prices include: Equipment, professional dive guide & boat.

Recent KT-DOC Projects

The latest projects to take place in Koh Tao include the diving Tuk Tuk dedicated to raise funds for Koh Taos school kids marine education program and The Reef Rehabilitation experiment with the help of the Royal Thai Navy, who also donated 12 new marine buoys, to help areas that suffered severe damage in the past recoperate whilst saving broken coral fragments. Volunteers from most dive shops joined the Navy Seals and worked together on Koh Taos first restoration project.

Message from the President of KT-DOC

Koh Tao is a unique island where due to its size it might not appear in some major maps but in 2003 it certified almost half of the total of 70,000 divers in Thailand. It is a tiny giant in the scuba diving industry.

With the growth of the dive industry on the island, it was time for the diveshops to get together to work towards a common goal: to conserve the natural beauty of the island and keep assuring quality diver education and dive safety.

It is my pleasure to announce that the Koh Tao Dive Operators Club has been formed at the end of 2003. We will work with the local authorities and launch various projects throughout the year to support the tourism of Thailand, growth of Koh Tao as well as protect the environment of the island.

As our first project, we are organizing a Koh Tao Festival "Underwater World Day" on the 7th of February. The aim is to make it an annual event to mark the opening of the diving season of Koh Tao.

We appreciate your interest and participation.

Vijite Srisung

President of Koh Tao Dive Operators Club

Message from the Governor

Tourism Authority of Thailand

On behalf of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), it gives me great pleasure to welcome the foundation of the Koh Tao DIve Operators Club (KT-DOC).

As part of our ongoing promotions, TAT has focused on various forms of tourism, both land and marine, in the different regions of Thailand that has allowed visitors the opportunity to have new and exciting experiences. Koh Tao has also rapidly developed into one of our country's most popular tourist destinations. This is due to the island's abundance of unique marine biodiversity and stunning underwater narural beauty.

With the increasing number of visitors coming to Thailand, we are also aware of the importance of conserving our country's natural environment, so that it does not suffer from any negative impact. As such, in wishing to create environmental awareness as well as promote the touristic products and services on Koh Tao, the KT-DOC has organized the Koh Tao Under Water World Day, an annual fun-filled day of activities and seminars.

TAT welcomes this effort in further promoting our country's tourism and looks forward to working closely with the Club and the local community to ensure that tourism development has minimal impact on the unspoilt environment of this beautiful island.

Juthamas Siriwan

Governor