raya.tek is a dive team whose prime purpose is to look for new dive sites in Thailand; from deep and shallow waters, from close to shore and far out to sea, from the sea and fresh water lakes, from anywhere where there could be something new and interesting. Members of the team are mostly dive professionals living in the Phuket area, doing these dives as a hobby. However, there are also experienced divers from elsewhere who come to Thailand for a holiday and are looking for something different, maybe a bit of excitement and adventure.

raya.tek is a dive team not especially concentrating on technical diving. The reason why technical diving is involved is just because many of the untouched dive sites can not be reached by using traditional recreational diving techniques; often we need special techniques and/or equipment.
raya.tek does not specifically prefer certain recreational or technical diving training organizations. Divers from all training organizations are welcome to join the team. We try to avoid the narrow minded, predominant around the world concerning different diving techniques and equipment configurations. We give everyone the freedom to use their own brains on dive planning, equipment configuration and techniques. Different things suit different people. Of course we are happy to give information and advice based on our own experiences about Thailand’s warm and clear waters, which can some time be hard and demanding due to strong currents. We are also accept with open minds new techniques and equipment configurations that are perceived good by other divers.
raya.tek does not conduct any diving courses or other training. We organize research trips for experienced divers to places and environments where not many (or nobody) have been before. For some of the organized projects deep diving experience and/or cave diving techniques are required. The team does not take any responsibility for any possible accidents causing injury or death to its members. It is also very important to understand that raya.tek is a “wild” dive team and completely separate thing from Raya Divers PADI 5-star IDC Center. When planning team dives, every member has to evaluate his own skills, appraise them against the difficulty of the mission, make the risk assessment and decide for themselves if they want to participate in the project or not.
raya.tek team has no special requirements for its members. If you are interested in raya.tek activities, you can join us for free. We will send you news and information about future events by e-mail. However, after you have been diving with us the first time, you will get the final decision about your membership: Either you will get a permanent membership or if we realize that you are a total idiot endangering yourself and others, you might get kicked out from the team forever… :-)

March 2003
Similan Islands-exploration of deeper areas in 50-55 m

Purpose of the project:
To explore the deeper areas of the Similan islands and to find new as well as interesting dive sites. Only a few dives go deeper than 40 meters in this area of the world famous national park, usually 3-4 dives are made daily, which is not compatible with deep diving.   (read more)
April 2003

The Artificial lake of Khao Sok-search for a lost city

Purpose of the project:
To find the lost underwater city of Lake Khao Sok.

(read more)

 February 2004

Hin Daeng-rumors about hammerhead sharks at the 70m wall…

Purpose of the project:
To prove that the rumors about hammerheads are not true…;)

(read more)

 February 2004
Similan Islands-new pinnacle at Elephant Head

Purpose of the project:
To find a new dive site and see if it’s appropriate for recreational diving trips.    (read more)
March 2004
M/S Vestal- British war time wreck in 70 meters

Purpose of the project:
To find out the exact location and diving conditions for future projects.     (read more)
 March 2004

Petaling- unidentified wreck in front of Kata Beach

Purpose of the project:

For future projects: to find out origin and exact location of the wreck.    (read more)
March 2004
Vestal + Petaling – wreck diving day

Purpose of the project:
To get more information about two wrecks in the Phuket area: M/S Vestal and Petaling. Our aim was also to test different dive tables for deep diving on our repetitive deep dives.     (read more)
April 2004
Similan Islands- New deep dive sites and nitrogen testing

Purpose of the project
To search for pinnacles in the deep sea which can be found on sea maps, also to test/compare table/computer diving.    (read more)
 May 2004
The artificial lake of Khao Sok- looking for the underwater city continues

Purpose of the project:
Because of more exact research we were much better prepared for the two day exploring trip.     (read more)
May 2004

Philippines-deep diving training

Purpose of the project:
To get experience in deep trimix dives using hypoxic mixes.

    (read more)

Tsunami in 26th of December 2005 stopped the current projects and activities of the team. As everyone understands, everybody here had to concentrate rescuing victims, later assisting locals and finally to rebuild our dive center.

For this reason we haven’t had any raya.tek projects for a while but now we are getting back in action! Spring 2006 brings many new adventures, plans are already there, we just need to finalize the dates.

If you want to get training for deep and technical diving, please see our website from DIVING COURSES > SPECIALTY COURSES and > OTHER COURSES > TECHNICAL DIVING COURSE

If you want to receive information by email about upcoming projects, sign up to our mailing list by sending an email to rayatek@rayadivers.com