Perfect Buoyancy Specialty on Koh Lanta

If you're serious about improving your diving skills and making the most of your underwater experiences, the SSI Perfect Buoyancy Specialty course here on Koh Lanta is an investment in your long-term diving enjoyment.

The better you are at controlling your buoyancy, the easier and more fun diving will be.

Here are 8 reasons why you should take the SSI Perfect Buoyancy Specialty course here on Koh Lanta:

1. Control and Precision

Better buoyancy control allows you to move more smoothly through the water, hover effortlessly, and avoid accidental contact with marine life or the reef. This precision will make you a more confident and skilled diver.

2. Reduced Air Consumption

Improved buoyancy means you exert less energy while diving, which reduces your air consumption. This translates into longer, more enjoyable dives, as you can spend more time underwater.

3. Protect Marine Life and the Environment

By mastering buoyancy, you minimise the risk of unintentionally touching or damaging delicate marine ecosystems, such as coral reefs. It helps you dive in an eco-friendly manner, contributing to marine conservation.

4. Enhanced Safety

Being able to control your buoyancy well can help you avoid dangerous situations, such as sudden ascents or descents. Proper buoyancy control is key to maintaining your depth and avoiding decompression sickness or other issues.

5. Prepare for More Advanced Dives

If you’re planning to take Advanced Adventurer or other courses like the Navigation Specialty, Deep Diving, or cave diving, perfecting your buoyancy will be critical for navigating those environments safely and effectively.

6. Less Effort, More Comfort

With perfect buoyancy, you’ll experience a more relaxing and enjoyable dive. You won’t be constantly adjusting your position or battling with your buoyancy, leading to a more peaceful and less tiring dive.

7. Better Underwater Photos

If you love taking underwater photos or videos, perfect buoyancy control is essential. It helps you maintain a stable position while shooting, reducing camera shake and allowing for clearer, better-framed shots.

8. Dive with Confidence

Perfecting your buoyancy gives you more confidence in your abilities. This can lead to more enjoyable dives, as you’ll feel in control of your movements and positioning.

Perfect Buoyancy Course Content

Improve your Buoyancy on Koh Lanta

The SSI Perfect Buoyancy course content here on Koh Lanta consists of knowledge development, followed by 2 open water Perfect Buoyancy training dives.

Perfect Buoyancy: Knowledge Development

Firstly, you will need to register with SSI and affiliate to Dive & Relax.

Once your booking is confirmed, we can release the course materials. This means that you can complete the course theory and quizzes on the SSI App before you arrive on Koh Lanta.

You'll learn all about:

• Types of buoyancy Compensators
• Safety and Control
• Lift Capacity
• Weight Systems
• Care and Maintenance of your BC
• Laws Pertaining to Buoyancy
• The Concept of Buoyancy
• Archimedes Principle
• Buoyancy and Your Body
• Determining the Proper Amount of Weight
• Diving Techniques
• Positively Buoyant on the Surface
• Buoyancy Control
• Developing Proper Breathing Patterns
• The Effects of Breathing
• Proper Weighting
• Establishing Neutral Buoyancy
• Diving and Your Environmental Responsibility
• Fin Awareness
• Environmental Awareness

Perfect Buoyancy: Open Water Dives

The practical part of the course here on Lanta consists of 2 dives in a single day, and is recommended near the beginning of your diving holiday.

During the 2 Perfect Buoyancy course dives here on Koh Lanta, you'll cover:

• Dive Planning
• Pre-dive Check
• Buoyancy Check at the Surface in Deep Water
• Controlled Descent
• Relaxed Breathing
• Neutral Buoyancy (Hovering)
• Neutral Buoyancy (Diving Position)
• Moving Underwater
• Underwater Obstacle Course

You should have dived recently in order to take part in this course. If you have not dived for a while then you should do at least 1 day of Fun Diving to properly prepare yourself for the SSI Perfect Buoyancy course.

The best locations to teach the Perfect Buoyancy course are at Koh Haa, Koh Rok, Koh Bida, or Koh Phi Phi.

We prefer to teach SSI courses, what's the difference between SSI and PADI?

SSI Perfect Buoyancy Specialty Price

Perfect your Buoyancy on Koh Lanta

The price for the SSI Perfect Buoyancy Specialty course on Koh Lanta is ฿5,310 when booked online in advance (1 day, 2 dives).

• Open to all certified divers (SSI, PADI, BSAC, CMAS, etc.).
• Includes lunch and soft drinks on the boat.
• You should have proof of recent diving, or do 1 day Fun Diving before starting the Perfect Buoyancy course.
• Does not include Marine Park Diving Fee: Thai ฿240, Foreigner ฿600, per day.

See a complete list of all our Koh Lanta Diving Prices.

Scuba Courses Available on Koh Lanta

Learn to Dive on Koh Lanta

We teach a full range of SSI recreational scuba diving courses here on Koh Lanta, from the entry level Open Water Diver course all the way up to Diver Stress & Rescue, together with numerous specialty courses.

• Discover Scuba Diving
• Open Water Course
• Scuba Skills Refresher
• Enriched Air Nitrox
• Deep Diver Specialty
• Perfect Buoyancy Specialty
• Navigation Specialty
• Advanced Adventurer
• React Right - First Aid & CPR
• Diver Stress & Rescue
• Diving with Kids

Are you Fit to Dive?

Dive trips & Scuba Courses on Koh Lanta

Whilst scuba diving is a very safe activity, it is important to know that you are fit to dive and that you do not have any fitness or medical conditions that could increase your risk of an accident underwater.

• Download and read the Diver Medical Questionnaire.

If you answer 'yes' to any of the medical questions, please print the entire form and take to your family doctor who will assess your fitness to dive. Your doctor will complete page 3, which we must see before you can start diving.

Find out more with the UK based Diving Diseases Research Centre.