Meet Searobin Dive Center Samui diving instructors & staff

Searobin dive center Samui is committed to give you the best possible diving or snorkeling experience regardless of your experience level. We believe diving is something marvelous that is suitable for anyone who curious enough to give it a try, and it is a sport that should be done with care. That is why when you dive with us you will dive with new equipment in small groups, fully insured including hyperbaric treatment on the best boat on Koh Samui. Our group of diving instructors are the most experience on the island, are excited about diving and take joy in sharing their diving experience and lifestyle with you.

That is why we have an impeccable safety record. That is why, 30% of our client comes diving with us based on a personal recommendation by someone they know.

That is why our customers return!

Our General Manager, Ron, is originally from the Czech Republic but moved to the USA as a kid where he later created a career in IT industry and was a partner in a computer learning center in San Francisco. Ron first dive in Thailand in 1983 and got hooked straight away! Amazing diving in warm water in this friendly country got him thinking... After the boom and bust of the IT industry in America Ron decided that it is good time for a change and moved on to Koh Samui over 7 years ago.

Ron had an idea of working for a dive center that would focus on providing safe, high-quality diving courses and relaxed fun dives with personal attention paid to each diver. To accomplish this, Ron have formed an interesting, fun group of professional dive instructors that been working with searobin for few years.

Partnering with Searobin owners seems to be a perfect fit as the owners let Ron run the daily operations and seem to come around just for fun diving and for the dive center biannual barbeque parties.

Ron can answer any question you might have, or if he can't then he will know whom to ask. If you have any special requests such as arranging a private charter for your dive trip, how to get to Samui, or how to do or get practically anything, ask Ron’s advice and he will do it for you - in English, Thai and some Hebrew!  

Ratings; PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer, PADI Nitrox Instructor, PADI Emergency First Respons Instructor, CMAS 2 star instructor.
Languages; German, English
Specialties; Nitrox, UW Photography, UW Videography, UW Navigation; Deep Diving and DPV.

Meinhard has lived and worked on Samui the longest, for over 9 years now – with over 4,000 logged dives he provides an almost unmatched experience in diving around Thailand – a native German speaker he also has an excellent command of English.
Whether you’re joining him for a fun dive or a PADI course you’re sure to have a great day with his easy sense of humor and serious sense of diver safety. Somehow Meinhard acquired Thai sense of humor so expect a hilariously funny day both on the boat and in the classroom. He truly enjoys storytelling, so if you did not get enough of it during the day, invite him for a drink and hear some more.

Ratings; PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer, PADI Nitrox Instructor, PADI Emergency First Respons Instructor, SSI Master Scuba Diver Trainer.
Languages;English, German, Polish, Russian
Specialties; Nitrox, UW Photography, UW Videography, UW Navigation; Deep Diving.

Arek has rock-hard experience of diving with over 3,000 dives in South-East Asia. He can lead you to the great world of diving and teach you the best tricks of snapping the photo of your life. He knows the names of every fish and marine creature in the region so don’t hesitate to ask as he can answer you in English, German, Polish, Russian or even Thai! Arek is also in charge of our website so whenever you have a problem with your laptop or Walkman, he knows how to solve it in the blink of an eye.

Ratings; PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer, PADI Emergency First Respons Instructor.
Languages;English
Specialties; Enrich Air Nitrox, Wreck diver, UW naturalist, Deep Diving, Night diver.

Todd joined the team in early 2007 as an instructor and we soon discovered that we had hit the jackpot as he must be the most patient person of the planet! Todd makes you feel like you had known each other for years already on the first minute, so the dives he leads and the courses he teaches are always very relaxed and low-stress. He is from the United States, but after diving for more than 10 years – sometimes in cold, dark waters – and then after diving in Thailand's Pattaya Beach and Thailand's west coast, he then chose to move to Samui because he wanted to live in a relaxing and warm tropical paradise where he could go diving every single day.
Having logged hundreds of dives on Gulf of Thailand dive sites, he knows where to find the moray eels, the alpheids and the nudibranchs, and other interesting marine creatures. Todd is both an enthusiastic naturalist and a technical diver, so after the day's dives he is always eager to discuss anything ranging from marine ecology to decompression theory -- or any other topics which might arise.

Ratings; PADI dive master
Languages;English, Finnish
The newest member of Searobin Dive Center is a Finnish girl, Mira, who got tired of the cold North and packed her bags to travel around Southeast Asia. She planned to visit Samui briefly but ended up doing a divemaster course and staying permanently after seeing what treats our island has to offer.

Ask her recommendations if you are looking for great nightclubs or after-party places, or wish to hear something about the Finnish national hero, Santa Claus. Mira speaks fluent Finnish and English but after a little persuasion you might get a reply in Swedish or German as well. If you wish to hear something about dry suits or find out how it feels to dive under ice, she is the one to talk to.