100 Degrees East - Diving at it´s best!

Come scuba diving on Koh Samui with 100 Degrees East Samui Dive Team – an award winning 5 Star PADI Dive Centre and a BSAC Resort Centre – dedicated to the delivery of outstanding customer service.

 Diving Samui as it should be, on board a 35 ft custom built dive speedboat - steering you comfortably clear of the crowds to all the top dive sites in the Gulf of Thailand.

 With our Samui Dive Team, you will be scuba diving in a safe, friendly and supportive environment in which you can relax, have fun and enjoy your dive courses and dive tours. PADI Dive Instructors and Divemasters are attentive, enthusiastic, highly qualified and experienced professionals who care.

Please visit 100 Degrees East for booking or more information.

Danger! beware of Drowning at the Sea

Most tourist drownings in Thailand involve people caught in RIP CURRENTS on popular beaches. Phuket and big Ko Chang have the worst records, but rip currents can occur anywhere there is a surf running.

All that water heading beachwards has to get back out to sea somehow, and that is the rip current. Waves in Thailand are more a wet season thing, during and after periods of prolonged strong winds. Waves are absent to very small 99% of dry season.

Inexperienced people finding themselves shooting out to sea in a rip current try to swim against it, get exhausted, take in water, and drown. more...