About Khao Lak Explorer

Our vision:

More than a dive center, a tailor made diving experience in Khao Lak
We care about you, you are our most important customer
Easy booking process

Khao Lak Explorer Dive Center has been founded in 2009 with the aim of providing tailor made diving experience in Khao Lak with the best customer service. We provide the best rental equipment with free us of dive computer for more safety.
Our infrastructure and team meet the highest standard in the dive industry.

Find below our vision, team, story and motivations.

Khao Lak Explorer Office

Our company office is location right in the center of Khao Lak, within 5 minutes walk of all the major hotel and Nangthong beach. The convenient location is for you the meeting point with our team for your bookings . Our dive equipment retail area provide you with a wide selection dive equipment.

Theo
Instructor

Open Water Scuba Instructor since 3 years, passionate about diving and the marine life. He loves teaching dive course. Diving is his full time job, travelling at the same time around the world. He also love music, plays guitar.
English, French, Spanish
Patient and attentive
Customer service
Super Friendly

Sylvain
Manager

Sylvain as is the co-founder and co-owner of Khao Lak Explorer.
With more than 10 years in the dive industry, he aims at the highest standard for Khao Lak Explorer. constantly improving the customer service.
Nature lover, Khao Lak Explore becoming eco-friendly is a big part of his job.
French, English
Management
Emails & Office
Instructor

Carly
Instructor

And South African which is basically English with a funny accent 😉

Carly is one of the most social, talkative and professional you can meet in diving.
Dive instructor since a year and Divemaster for 6 years before that, she already spend one season in Khao Lak and the Similan islands.
With Carly it’s all fun fun fun !
English, English, English
Love Teaching and Guiding
Super communicative
fun, Fun, Fun

Pi-Em
Driver

Born in Khao Lak area, Pi-em is our taxi driver, he love cycling on Sunday with the full gear like in the “Tour de France” and have a nap on a hot day.
Safe driving and always on time, he is Khao lak Explorer driver for our courses and local wreck dives.
Thai / English
Safe Driving
Love Cycling on Sunday
Second passion Napping

Fernando
Instructor

Fernando is one of the best instructor ever, he our main Spanish instructor for our Spanish Spain he work the off season in Majorca and come for the season at the Similan islands.
Spanish, English
Super Friendly
Best dancer in Town
Aka ‘El Matador”

Yaya
Assistant Manager

Yaya is the Co-founder of Khao Lak Explorer and Sylvain’s wife, Divemaster passionate of diving, most of the picture you can find on our website are from her, she take care of email accounting, office sales, retail management. She moved away from Bangkok for a more relax lifestyle in the South Thailand.
English, Thai
Email, Booking
Love underwater photography
Divemaster

Alexis
Instructor

Alexis used to play Hockey in high-school, is originally from Quebec, the french speaking part of Canada. He traveled the world with his previous job with the “Cirque du soleil” a theatrical troupe and decided to become dive instructor a couple of years ago. Second season to the Similan islands, is one of our top instructor for dive courses.
Surprisingly he doesn’t have the funny French Canadian accent.
English, French
Strong as a buffalo
Love weird music
Passionate of diving

Andreas
German Instructor

Andreas as been working a the Similan islands for now 4 season, he knows all the dive sites like the back of his end. Andreas is our German contact, guide and instructor for our German customers, he also is fluent in English and speaks very good French.
He used to be a school teacher back in the days where diving was not yet is job.
German, English, French
Patient & calm
Love macro life
Underwater Photography and Tech diving

Nat
Tour Guide

Dynamic and super friendly, Nat is taking care of land tours around Khao Lak area. Nat has been in Khao Lak for longer than we can remember, she has an extensive knowledge of the area and love sharing it with our customers.
Thai, English
Tour Guide
Extensive Knowledge or the Area
Dynamic Friendly, Funny

Guillem
Instructor

Guillem is fluent in Spanish, French and English, after about 8 years working in a dive center in Spain, he decided to come to Thailand for the season.
Very friendly like all Spanish! He favorite expression are “Fantastic” and “Amazing”
Also the King of the siesta.
Spanish, French, English
Very friendly
King of the Siesta
PADI Instructor

Martin
Instructor

Martin is born in New Caledonia, he is one of the lucky one to have been raised on a tropical islands next to amazing coral reef, no need to say his passion is scuba diving and freediving.
He used to work in Australia on the great barrier reef and moved to Thailand for the season.
French, English
Patient and passionate
Not very tall…
Love teaching courses

Rental Equipment

Rental Dive Gear

Our rental equipment is the best on the market, we provide you with fully balance regulator (not the cheap one you usually get), open heel fins with boots (so you don t get blister), BCD, shorty wet-suit and free use of dive computer.
Other dive center charge you extra for open heel fins or computer for example, not us! It s included in our rental equipment package, because we believe that you deserve the best. Comfort of the dive gear is important while scuba diving.
Would you go skying with painful ski-boots? No! So if you choose us, you make the right choice. Dive with somebody else and you will quickly understand…

Dive Pool

Facility, Dive Pool and Dive Training

We have one of the best facility in town, the dive academy Khao Lak offers dive swimming pool, classroom, dive resort,r restaurant and office all in one spot.
Check it out at Khao Lak Dive Academy.
Our Scuba diving courses are tailor made, you can choose where you dive, create your own package, the swimming pool for training is specialty made for scuba training with a shallow area and deep area 4.5m.
We teach the theory in our classroom or outside in a nice tropical are as we believe that you don t want to be locked in a classroom during your holidays.
We use the latest PADI materiel with possibility of online theory training to save you time during your holidays.
The courses are all done in small groups, 1 instructor for 4 student maximum. And our Dive Team is Awesome !

Easy Booking Process

Make Inquiry / Pre-reservation
We confirm you availiability and details needed within 24h
Pay your Deposit Online by Credit Card or Paypal
You will receive a proper receipt with all the details
Pay the balance when you visit our office

Make a Pre-Reservation Now

Retails Dive Equipometn Khao Lak

Retail Dive Equipement

Our retail section provide a wide selection of dive and snorkeling equipment.
We are one of the biggest retailer of dive equipment in Khao Lak, if you look for some accessories, wetsuits, BCD, Fins, Mask, Lycras, Underwater camera, Gopro camera, we have it all.
Our customers get 10% discount on the retail area if they dive with us.

Dive Pool

Comfortable Boats

All the boats we use and proposer are comfortable and safe, all the inboard safety equipment is there.
Our prices are very competitive, some of the best in the market.
If you are looking for luxury, we can arrange you trip on luxury liveaboards of private charter as well. Speedboat charter.

You can find all the details about the boats on the dive trip pages.