Real Divers

Real Divers is Pattaya's only family-run British PADI 5 Star IDC dive centre. Dave Chandler (now retired) started it all over 20 years ago when he came to Pattaya on holiday and decided to learn to dive. He enjoyed it so much that he sold his publishing company, retired early and emigrated to Thailand and trained to become a PADI Dive Instructor. Later sons Neil and Peter followed him out from England and he trained them to become PADI instructors. After working for some of the largest dive centers in South East Asia learning the do's and don'ts of how to run a dive center they opened Real Divers in 2005 which is now a PADI 5 STAR Instructor Development center. What makes Real Divers different to the other dive centers is we run our trips on our 12 metre speedboats so no more 8am starts as we start our trips at 10am. As we have less travel time we have more time to get the best out of diving and snorkeling activities and are back about 2pmish, no more late 5-6pm finishes. We also don't leave to the Pattaya islands from the busy "Bali Hai pier" the pier is packed full of tourists and takes so long to get on and off the boats and pier. We have a hotel pick up/return service and start our trips straight from the Jomtien beach 50 metres from the dive center making things so much easier for everyone.