This offer is not only for divers alone, but the Emergency First Responder, first aid course, can be taken by all, even children. You can use all the knowledge in the water as well as your workplace, when you are out and about, everwhere.
At Mermaids Dive Center, you can take this course every single day of the year, however, in January 2009, we will upgrade you, with special certification in Care for Children. Which makes you qualified to provide First Aid to children.
This is a very important course for all to know and use, whether big or small incidents.

Come and get a Free set of Funky Fins, when you have spent more than 10,000THB in one purchase at any of our stores, this can be on equipment, courses, or just diving….. Offer is for the month of January 2009 - Happy New year!!!!

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

After getting over the December BBQ, Christmas and the New Year season, Mermaids kicked off their first BBQ in 2009 on Thursday 15th January.

As always preparations were underway that afternoon, with salads being made and arrangements for the evening. Vlad our “master chef” started the BBQ off at 5.00pm and the smell of sausages and burgers cooking soon drew in the crowd of hungry divers who had been out on the boats during the day.

The Mermaids monthly BBQ is a great place for everyone to relax and chat and also for new students joining us for their training programs. The BBQ gives them an opportunity to meet everyone and join in the fun. For this BBQ there were old and new faces arriving in January. A warm Mermaids welcome to Evan Smith, Jessi Kingan, Matt Povey, Josh Childress and Naomi Trepanier. Welcome back to Adam Goodier and Wayne McKelvey who rejoined us to do their IDC’s. As always plenty of food was eaten and lots of fun was had by all on the evening.

The Mermaids BBQ is also open to all divers/snorkelers and prospective divers that would like to join us and meet new people and discuss diving or even non diving topics. Please feel free to come along and join in the fun.

The dates for the rest of the year are advertised here on the website and Mermaids provide the food so all you need to do is bring some refreshments with you. The BBQ takes place at our main operations center located near the Hanuman Statue (Golden Statue) in Jomtien.

Many thanks to Vlad, Jan, Malai, Kaew and countless others who helped make all the food and prepare for the evening.

The next Mermaids BBQ will be on Sunday 15th February 2009 at 6.00pm.

Mermaids celebrates all new Instructors with dinner and festivities as usual on 21st 2009