This afternoon saw the completion of Shay, Joel, Louisa, Patty and Alex’s PADI Rescue Diver course here at Simple Life Divers!
These guys were all put through their paces, with a number of panicked snorklers, divers, swimmers – shock, horror, missing and unconscious divers.
After a large amount of surface swimming (Joel and Louisa!) these guys really [...]
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New PADI Rescue Divers Ready for the Divemaster Internship
Koh Tao Buoyancy World Project: 6th till 10th February
Amongst other valuable work, each year the ‘Save Koh Tao’ marine conservation group organize one major project aimed at bringing the Koh Tao dive schools together in working towards sustainable diving tourism and protecting the island’s natural resources.
Back in 2009, the project was creation of the ‘Hin Fai’ biorock structure. A series of domes were [...]
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 the advanced course [...]
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 air, to [...]
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 [...]
Global Economic Crisis Vs Gap Year PADI Divemaster internships in Thailand
The world financial crisis of 2009 has a had a drastic effect on business across the globe.
In most cases, third and fourth quarter figures show signs of economic recovery for many developed western countries, but there’s a long lag time expected till we see that recovery manifest in unemployment rates. Estimates for September and October [...]
PADI Divemaster Internship; The Final Test
Congratulations to Paul – Simple Life’s newest PADI Divemaster, after nearly 3 months of training.
Paul First arrived here at Simple Life Divers Koh Tao back in July. After completing his Advanced Open Water course with Alex, decided that he too would like to work in the dive industry. The PADI Divemaster course is the first [...]
Koh Tao Dive Internships Blog
Browsing our the Simple Life Divers website, you’ve probably already seen that we offer a range of exciting gap year Thailand opportunities. These include scuba diving internships training candidates to PADI Divemaster and Open Water Scuba Diving Instructor, plus paid gap year work with our Koh Tao underwater videographer internship.
To keep everyone up to date [...]
