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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
