Image: Snorkel test with a difference – this time the new PADI Divemasters decided to dress up as smurfs!
As is customary at the end of every PADI Divemaster internship, we celebrate the achievements of the new PADI professionals with a special event or party. This normally involves a Koh Tao traditional passing of rights ceremony [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Gap Year Thailand’
Scuba Diving Internships Thailand: Smurf Snorkel Test
New PADI Rescue Divers Ready for the Divemaster Internship
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 [...]
Koh Tao Divemaster Internships: Great diving and lots of sun!
Due to the brilliant dive conditions and weather we’re currently enjoying on Koh Tao, after enjoying their entry-level dive training at Simple Life a number of students have decided to stick around and enroll in our PADI Divemaster internship.
Having endured the PADI Rescue Diver course and come out as more confident and competent divers, Hannah, [...]
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 Life [...]
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 festivities.
Know [...]
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 [...]
Koh Tao Thailand Videos | Scuba Diving and Nightlife
We’ve added a YouTube video archive to the Simple Life website, allowing you to get a better idea of what it’s like here on Koh Tao.
The Koh Tao video archive features the following scuba diving movies, highlighting what it’s like to dive in the Gulf of Thailand:
The final two dives from a PADI Open Water [...]
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 [...]
Run up to Xmas on Koh Tao
It’s that time of year again! People have putting up the Christmas Trees and decorations even here on tropical Koh Tao.
The new bar restaurant and Simple Life resort has opened just in time (strange coincidence), so to celebrate the festive season Sett is hosting a Gala Buffet style Christmas dinner on the 24th December.
There’s going [...]
