Ron
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 9 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!

Christophe
Ratings: PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor, PADI Nitrox Instructor.
Languages: German, French, English
Specialties: Nitrox.

Christophe with his 12 years of diving experience has lived and worked in Thailand for over 6 years now – with over 4,000 dives he provides an excellent experience in diving around Thailand and other places around the world – a native French/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 completed by a high sense of patience.

Christophe works also in our Dive Center on the beautiful Choeng Mon Beach to reply to your emails and internet enquiries with his always friendly and helpful way.

Ian a former submarine engineer in the British Navy, joined our team in 2008 with sixteen years of diving experience from all over the world three of which are specifically in the Gulf of Thailand. Preferring to work in small groups he joined Searobin to be able to provide a truly personal service and qualify confident and capable divers.

Ian is a relaxed and understanding person who enjoys the challenge of teaching at all levels from Discover Scuba Diving to Divemaster where his combination of fun and safety is the key to his success. Ian's wealth of diving and local knowledge puts the FUN in to diving by keeping our divers off the beaten track ensuring a unique diving experience.

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Eric has 15 years diving experience, which started in the freezing cold quarries of New York and Pennsylvania, and the Northwestern Atlantic Ocean He has also dove and worked in the diving industry in multiple countries before deciding to settle down and work in the warm, beautiful waters of Koh Samui.

In addition to being a PADI open water instructor and teaching many specialties including Emergency First Responder, Eric is also a professional ski and snowboard instructor and a certified personal trainer. When not diving, Eric likes to hang out on the beach with his dog "Stoli" or of course go fun diving

Wolfgang
Ratings: PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer, PADI Emergency First Response Instructor.
Languages:German, 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 Germany, 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.

Mira
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.