Pasi Laihanen
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Head Instructor and SSI Extended Range Instructor at Koh Tao Divers, originally from Finland. Started diving in Finland in 2015 before moving to Thailand in 2017 and becoming an instructor in early 2018. Teaches extended range specialties including sidemount, wreck, and cavern diving, and is a certified cave and mine diver active in exploration teams, holding certifications on KISS Sidewinder and SF2 rebreather units. Teaches SSI courses in Finnish and English.
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Laihanen teaches technical courses at Koh Tao Divers, and the review that carries the most weight is from a diver he took through every sidemount and extended range course available — describing being taught patiently, corrected when needed, deliberately allowed to make mistakes, and pushed to grow. The word that student reaches for is mentor rather than instructor, and the relationship clearly ran across multiple courses rather than one. Koh Tao Divers as a whole is one of the island's genuine technical centres rather than a certification mill, and reviewers repeatedly name individual instructors there rather than the shop.
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