Well done to Matt, Vicki, Alex and John on completing their Padi Open Water course here at Simple Life Divers, Koh Tao. The guy’s arrived at Simple Life Diver’s through the recommendation of other travelers. Arriving on Koh Tao on one of the morning ferries, the team were ready to start their PADI Open Water [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2010’
Diving Internships Thailand: Ready to Rescue
Posted By PADI Dive Instructor Jon: Well done to Marylee and Eric on completing there PADI Rescue Diver course. After catching the diving bug after their PADI Open Water Course they decided to continue their training up to PADI rescue diver level, which would better prepare them for future planed diving excursions. En-route highlights of [...]
Scuba Diving with Sharks in Koh Tao, Thailand
The famous Chumphon Pinnacles dive site north-west of Koh Tao, Thailand is a popular dive site with a very special attraction – Bull Sharks! At the moment, there are many big bill sharks living around the Koh Tao dive site, reaching around 3M in length. This makes for a truly spectacular shark dive. Yesterday, Simple [...]
Songkran Festival April 2010: Thai New Year and Whale Sharks on Koh Tao
This year the Thai New Year Songkran celebrations on Koh Tao are set to take place on April 15th 2010. The official dates for the Songkran celebrations are from April 13th – 15th, so in the bigger cities things will already be in full swing a couple of days prior to the Koh Tao Songkran [...]
PADI Divemaster Internships: Why dive using enriched air nitrox?
Continuing our series of articles focusing on our PADI Divemaster Internships, this post examines why some divers choose to dive using nitrox? Browsing the Simple Life dive internships Thailand micro site, you’ll notice that some of our longer gap year internships include PADI Specialty courses, one of which is the PADI enriched air diver specialty. [...]
Divemaster Internships Thailand: How much weight should a diver wear
Next in our series of snippets from the Koh Tao PADI Divemaster internship we’ll take a look at how to properly weight divers. In salty seawater most people’s bodies are roughly neutrally buoyant. In English, that means they neither sink nor float. But since water conducts heat away from the body many times faster than [...]
Thailand PADI Divemaster Internship: Choosing a Koh Tao Dive Site (Quiz)
This series of articles shares some free snippets from the PADI Divemaster internship here in Thailand. Simple Life’s experienced scuba instructors add their past experiences and stories to the curriculum of the PADI Divemaster course, so you’ll understand much more than the bare minimum and can apply what you’re learning to real working situations here [...]
