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