Haad Yao Divers was one of the first dive schools on Koh Phangan and was the first up on the West Coast, being established in 1997. Koh Phangan is centrally located to the main dive sites of Sailrick, Chumpion Pinnicle and the Koh Angthong Marine Park, diving from Haad Yao Divers gives access to all these great dive sites, and there are also pool tuition available for those who need to get confortable before going in the open water.
The dive school started out small but has now grown to include a team of PADI instructors from a variety of nationalities and is also accredited with the 5 Star Gold Palm Dive Center certification.
The dive center is also a Go ECO Operator on Koh Phangan and the environment plays at the forefront of all trips and studies and coral pool monitoring is carried out for the Green Fins Thailand organization.
Haad Yao Divers caters for all levels of divers and also snorkelers on their own dive boat a large two deck twenty three meter long vessel equipped with a comfortable sun deck with pillows, dining room, a dry area, racks of equipment and a toilet and shower. At the rear of the boat is the dive platform and there is also a side exit to leave the boat on dives from. The boat can accommodate up to thirty people.
The dive center has outlets in had yao, maehaad and ao chaphoa and can be found on their website explaining all dive, diving and padi courses they offer on koh phangan which has a lot of useful information on it as well as contact details.