Changes are afoot at Phuket’s Pro-Tech Dive College with the opening of new facilities the boss gaining new closed-circuit rebreather ratings.

Construction of Pro-Tech’s new facility in Chalong has taken about six months, but is now complete, the company says on its Tech-CCR News & Events blog. (more…)

Inside the HTMS Pangan. (Photo: Ayesha at Big Buddha Diving via Thai Wreck Diver)

The wreck hunters at the MV Trident will sail again July 2 for the HTMS Pangan on a 3-day, 3-night tech liveaboard trip.

Rediscovered in August 2005,  the Pangan is Royal Thai Navy ship bult in Japan before World War II. Carrying ammunition and gunpowder for disposal, she reportedy sunk in a storm in 1961. Fire damage on the superstructiure indicates a fire, however. There was no loss of life.

This wreck is about 60 nautical miles from Koh Tao, an easy 6 hour run. She lies on her port side in 60 meters of clear water, the top of the wreck is at 48 meters. Length is about 60 meters, beam 10 meters and weight approximately 3,000 tons.  The Pangan is very well appointed with twin screws, lots of portholes, telegraphs and deck machinery. (more…)

Thailand’s pre-eminent technical wreck divers, the MV Trident, will embark on their next expedition May 18. The “Closed-Circuit Divers Australia” group has booked many of the spaces on the tech liveaboard, but more spaces are still available.

The Trident’s Jamie Macleod says the trip will be both a mix of wreck-hunting and diving known wrecks as far south as the Malaysian border.

The trip runs out of the Trident’s home port of Koh Tao between May 18-26. The price is 75,000 all-inclusive except for helium. Booking details and contact information can be found on the Trident’s website.