Help clean up the local environment by joining Mermaids Dive Center on the 20th October 2008 for our scheduled monthly beach and underwater clean ups at the Near Islands. Prices are 2990 for 2 dives and 1000 baht for a snorkeler or passenger

Mermaids Dive Center Annual Treasure Hunt, 8th and 9th November 2008.

Join us for an exciting 2 days of diving looking for hidden treasure on our secret island.

8.00am – Meet at Mermaids Jomtien both days and depart for your pirate ship leaving from Bali Hai Pier. 2 dives with lunch included looking for treasure on Treasure Island. Join us in the evening for dinner where you will discover what prize you have won.

Prices per person are:

To book your place on this exciting weekend, please contact:

Sheena dive@mermaiddive.com or 038 232 219
Jan admin@mermaiddive.com or 081 757 1640

Help clean up the local environment by joining Mermaids Dive Center on the 21st November 2008 for our scheduled monthly beach and underwater clean ups at the Near Islands. Prices are 2990 for 2 dives and 1000 baht for a snorkeler or passenger

Scuba diving keeps getting more exciting with Mermaids Dive Center, Pattaya. Experience the opportunity to dive for an hour in the Pattaya Aquarium alongside Leopard Sharks, Nursing Sharks and Turtles. Take the opportunity to feed Eagle Rays and be there in the tank at main feeding time. This trip departs from Mermaids, Jomtien on the 2nd December 2008at 10.00am. Prices are 3600 baht per person including a tour of the Aquarium, transport and any equipment required. Your experience is captured on DVD and can be bought for 1500 baht.

Help clean up the local environment by joining Mermaids Dive Center on the 13th December 2008 for our scheduled monthly beach and underwater clean ups at the Near Islands. Prices are 2990 for 2 dives and 1000 baht for a snorkeler or passenger

Join Mermaids Dive Center for a days diving in Santa suits, come dressed as Santa and bring the Christmas spirit as well. Prize for best Santa Suit.

Date of the event is 23rd of December 2008

To book, call us at +66(0) 38 232 219/220 or email us

Scuba divers have a unique perspective of the underwater world, and see firsthand the crisis facing our underwater environments. In 1989, PADI developed the AWARE philosophy – Aquatic World Awareness, Responsibility and Education – to stress divers’ roles in conserving these environments and create a group of effective environmental advocates. “We want to feel that our children, their children and generations to come will be able to enjoy the underwater world that has given us so much. There are so many significant problems facing mankind, but as divers, this is truly our cause. If divers do not take an active role in preserving the aquatic realm, who will?”

Mermaids Dive Center is a Go Eco Center committed to keeping Pattaya’s underwater realm and beaches in pristine condition for our local and international divers and snorkelers. Each month we dedicate a day to collect trash from the reefs and beaches of a Pattaya island. Our cleans ups are very successful and all divers and snorkelers that take part in this worthwhile project claim a sense of achievement at the end of the day for taking part and making their difference. Results of the clean up are submitted to Project AWARE for monitoring.

International Clean up Day 19th September 2009

Project AWARE’s longstanding International Cleanup Day event is the biggest underwater cleanup of its kind. Held annually on the 3rd Saturday in September each year, more than 370,000 volunteers clean over 33,000 miles of shoreline to remove seven million pounds of rubbish.
Project AWARE partners with dedicated scuba divers, clean the world’s oceans, lakes, rivers and shorelines. These volunteers take part in practical cleanup solutions and collect data that is vital to addressing global debris issues. Cleanup and data collection activities are supported by Project AWARE Foundation, partners and volunteers on an ongoing basis to reform, inform, educate and legislate.

In 2008, Mermaids Dive Center had a record 176 people taking part and donated 156,000 baht to Project AWARE.

To join Mermaids Dive Center in Pattaya on the monthly beach clean ups and for International Clean up day, please call us on +66 (0)38 303 333 or +66 (0)86 143 5547 or email dive@mermaiddive.com

Experience an exicting trip to the Bremen wreck, with almost perfect conditions required this is an exciting opportunity to dive the rarely visited shipwreck date to be advised as soon as we get the new Tide Charts

Experience an exicting trip to the Bremen wreck, with almost perfect conditions required this is an exciting opportunity to dive the rarely visited shipwreck date to be advised as soon as we get the new Tide Charts

Mermaids Dive Center Clean Up crew once again made their difference to the local aquatic environment with this month’s underwater and beach cleanup taking place at Hat Nuan. Hat Nuan is one of Pattaya’s near islands with a beautiful beach and an uncompleted underwater restaurant popular with divers and snorkelers.

As always we were fully organised with our clean up kits consisting of work gloves, mesh bags, trash bags, scissors, lift bags and lots of enthusiasm.

Following the objectives set out for the day, 23 cleaners taking part over 2 dives collected 20 bags of trash estimating to weigh about 300kgs. The trash consisted mainly of plastic bags, rope, beverage bottles – glass and plastic, a lot of fishing line and nets, building material and the age old favourite car parts. Conditions were not as expected but our brave cleaners carried on with their quest.

All items are always carefully checked before removal to see if there are any living fish inside. An empty glass bottle may be home to an Octopus as well as doubling up as an artificial eco system. On this cleanup a crab trapped in an abandoned fishing net was safely removed by Jon and Joycey which was released back into the ocean safe and sound.

The most unusual items found on the day were a deck chair and lots of items of clothing and shoes in all various shapes and sizes, including a Power Rangers T Shirt.

Jon Sussman, main organiser for the day said “As ambassadors for the underwater world, it is our responsibility to take care of our reef systems, marine life and beaches”

Thanks to all the people who took part and join us for the next clean up on the 22nd April 2009, a very special day in the Project AWARE calendar – Dive into Earth Day.