SPECIALITY | PADI AWARE FISH IDENTIFICATION SPECIALIST COURSE KOH TAO
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Learn to Identify Fish with the PADI Fish ID Specialty Course
One of the most common questions you hear on a dive boat when conducting diving courses is what is the name of that fish.
Be the diver that is answering that question, rather than asking it by signing up for the PADI AWARE Fish Identification specialty course.
You get so much more out of your diving when you are able to recognize fish, the families they belong to, and the characteristics of a species.
Included in the Koh Tao PADI AWARE Fish ID Course
To enroll on an AWARE Fish Identification Specialty course you must:
The course consists of two sections:
At Koh Tao Diving School we take our customer promise very seriously. All courses are conducted with a maximum of 4 students per PADI Instructor.
Our Dive instructors are highly trained and will ensure you receive lots of attention and most importantly, progress at your own pace in a relaxed environment.
During your training, we will slowly build your confidence and ability as you develop the skills necessary to become proficient at fish identification.
Koh Tao Fish Identification Course Schedule.
The AWARE Fish Identification course schedule at Black Turtle Dive is flexible and we can work around your own personal needs and timeframe.
Please feel free to ask if you have any special requests either via email or on one of the messenger apps on this page.
Our 1 dive Fish ID course is priced at 3,500 baht if you have already completed a Fish ID adventure dive.
Course Schedule
Day 1:
09.00 – 11.30: Orientation & Knowledge Development
12.30 – 17.00: AWARE Fish Identification training dives 1 & 2
You are now a certified PADI AWARE Fish Identification diver
AWARE Fish Identification Specialty Course Information
Orientation & Knowledge Development
We start the AWARE Fish Identification specialty course at 09.00 with an Orientation that includes the completion of paperwork and the PADI Medical statement.
The AWARE Fish Identification specialty course consists of 2 training dives that we complete in the ocean around Koh Tao.
There is an Instructor-led knowledge development and a 10-question open book knowledge review to complete that your specialty instructor will review.
The Instructor-led knowledge development is conducted during the morning of day 1. Some of the subjects you will cover include:
Koh Tao Marine Life & Fish Identification Course
There are 2 AWARE Fish Identification training dives to complete to become an AWARE Fish Identification specialist:
AWARE Fish Identification training dive #1
This will be a nice relaxing dive around the coral reef You will have your fish slates along with a blank slate so you can take notes.
Your Instructor will bring an underwater camera along to record the fish we see. We can look back at real images and discuss them after the dive.
You will be identifying the fish you see and placing them in appropriate family groups and identifying specific species.
Your Instructor will also be asking you to record what you see, including numbers and any additional information about the habitat.
AWARE Fish Identification Training Dive #2
The second dive is about planning and conducting a fish survey that will include recording fish families, species, abundance, and habitat information. After the dive, you will discuss your findings with your Instructor.
Congratulations. You are now a PADI AWARE Fish Identification Specialist Diver
Fun Diving in Koh Tao
The ocean around Koh Tao boasts colorful corals, an abundance of marine life, and lots of diversity, more than enough to keep even the most experienced scuba diver occupied for months on end.
Koh Tao provides all this and more at a variety of dive sites ranging from shallow coral reefs, located within the island’s beautiful bays, to deeper outlying granite pinnacles, just a 30-40 minutes boat journey offshore.
Our dive team is experienced and highly knowledgeable dive professionals, familiar with the local reef ecology and dive sites.
Fun Diving for all Scuba Divers Koh Tao
We will provide you with a bespoke, relaxed, and enjoyable fun diving experience.
We will show the best of everything that there is to see, at dive sites suitable for your level of training and experience, tailoring the dive to your interests.
The scuba diving around the island offers something for every diver and with over 25 fantastic dive sites, there is enough variety to keep you hooked on Koh Tao diving for weeks and weeks.
If you are a deep dive enthusiast you will be pleased to hear there are several great deep sites, including Sail Tock arguably the Gulf of Thailand’s premier scuba diving dive site.
Explore the Underwater World
Located between Koh Phangan and Koh Tao, this 40-metre, deep dive site is in the middle of the sea. Famous for its iconic Chimney, you will be engulfed by huge schools of snapper, fusiliers, and chevron barracuda and see lots of the larger pelagic fish here too.
Sail Rock is usually organized as a full-day trip from Koh Tao.
Closer to home we have Chumphon Pinnacles and South West Pinnacle, both a 30-40 minutes boat ride from Koh Tao.
These dive sites offer the best opportunity to dive with Whale sharks and also boast large schools of scad and Trevally with Brydes Whales also seen at Southwest when passing through.
Closer to home Koh Tao’s picturesque bays offer stunning scenery above the surface with the backdrop of a thick green jungle and granite rocks, rock faces, and shorelines.
These shallow dive sites boast colorful thriving reefs that are brimming with marine life and easy diving conditions, perfect for long relaxing dives.
For the more adventurous diver, the HTMS Sattakut is a first-class deep wreck dive, perfect for advanced divers.
Lying between 18-30 metres this wreck is 10 years old now and full of life.
Neighboring island Koh Nang Yuan offers the iconic twin peaks as the central point of the stunning above-the-water scenery for you to enjoy during your surface interval.
Fun Diving around Koh Nang Yuan
It also offers several fantastic dive sites, with Japanese Gardens boasting one of the most diverse coral reefs in Thailand.
Diversity is something Koh Nang Yuan has a lot of. Some of Koh Tao’s rare marine animals are also seen around the island including the only dive site where we see the Pink Tailed Triggerfish and two of the only locations where we see Ocellated Eagle ray.
Koh Nang Yuan shoreline has some cool caves and swim-throughs that are great fun for divers with the necessary buoyancy skills required to navigate them and over on the north side, Green Rock offers a deep site and lots of swim-throughs.
East Side of Koh Tao
Traveling over to the East Side of Koh Tao and Tanote Bay offers excellent macro-opportunities and is especially popular with underwater photographers.
If you have a sharp eye look for the Frog Fish here, there is also a sunken catamaran thriving with life and artificial concrete cubes that complement the natural reef well and attract more marine life.
Junkyard Reef Koh Tao
Over on the south of Koh Tao, Tao Tong is another dive site popular with photographers, who often visit there for muck diving and to see whether they can find the Blue Ringed Octopus.
Koh Tao boasts a number of artificial sites including J…
