Archive for October, 2007

Gap Year Scuba Diving Internship Mini-site relaunched

By , 31 October, 2007, No Comment

We’re now offering beginner to PADI Divemaster Gap Year Internships [3 months], including everything you need – PADI Diving courses, accommodation, your own set of professional scuba diving equipment and all materials and certification fees.

Scuba diving internships in ThailandPADI Divemaster internship Thailand

In addition DJL is now also offering internship add-ons, allowing you to specialize in exciting divere areas of diving. Internship add-on options are;

Deep technical wreck diving expeditions

PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor [IDC]

International Powerboat handling course

Paid working dive internship as an underwater videographer

Here’s a list of our new website pages where you can read more about our gap year scuba diving internships in Thailand:

Thailand Gap year / scuba diving internships introduction

PADI Divemaster internship courses structure

Diving internship scuba courses

Scuba diving internship equipment

PADI Divemaster course resort accommodation

Why take a diving internship on Koh Tao Thailand?

What kind of people take a scuba diving gap year internship?

Thailand visas for scuba diving internships

Gap year diving internship free DVD

Scuba diving gap year internships booking form

Scuba diving internship add on – Expedition Diver

Gap year internship add on – PADI Scuba Instructor [IDC]

Dive internship add on – Small Boat Handling Course

Paid working diving internship add on – Underwater videographer

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Plongee sous-marine Koh Tao Thailande: DJL Diving homepage & PADI Open Water Pages Now Available en francais!

By , 12 October, 2007, No Comment

With 3 French speaking instructors on the DJL Diving team, we have the capacity to teach all PADI & BSAC scuba diving courses en francais. We’ve decided it’s time to start translating our website into French.

We’ve already translated our Koh Tao Thailand homepage and PADI Scuba Open Water page into French. These are now available on the following links:

Homepage en Francais:

DJL Diving Ecole Plongee Koh Tao, Annee Sabatique Thailande, hebergement, logement, Course de plongee sous – marine

PADI Open Water Page:

Apprenez la plongee sous-marine a Koh Tao, Thailande

We’ll continue to translate the remainder of the website – the next part will be our Thailand scuba diving Internships section [soon to be Annee Sabatique]

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Open throughout November 07 for PADI Open Water Diving

By , 8 October, 2007, No Comment

DJL Diving [Koh Tao Thailand] will remain open throughout November 2007, continuing to provide PADI / BSAC / SSI Scuba Diving Courses & Fun Dives for certified divers.

PADI Scuba Diving Open Water Diving in Koh Tao Thailand

Many Koh Tao Thailand Dive Shops close during November, to allow for boat maintenance following our busy Summer period.

At DJL Diving, we’ll remain open throughout November. If you’re traveling to Sairee Beach Koh Tao, looking to do your PADI Scuba Open Water Diving course or any other scuba diving during November, we still have availability. [Contact DJL Diving with your individual enquiries].

We’ll be sending our big boat in for renovation during the first half of December 2007, but don’t worry – we’ll still be diving in Koh Tao off our high speed RIB. As the prevailing wind shifts to start blowing from the North East, we’ll be able to moor our RIB in the shelter of Sairee Beach, allowing us convenient fast access to the best dive sites in Koh Tao.

We aim to get the big boat finished and back to Koh Tao Thailand by mid December.

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BSAC TEC Diving; Leona (Go Pro Internship) & William qualify as Extended Range Divers

By , 3 October, 2007, No Comment

After a combined technical scuba diving course & dive liveaboard expedition, we’re happy to announce that we have two new BSAC Extended Range Divers here at DJL Diving.

technical scuba diving training Koh Tao Thailand

Image; The first female Extended Range Diver trained by Tim, Leona on an ERD training dive

Retired concert organist, William Hudson (from Alaska), joined us from a cave diving background. William went through the BSAC Combined Nitrox & BSAC Extended Range Diver Courses. He was joined by Leona Goh (Singapore), who’s taking a diving internship through to PADI Divemaster with DJL Diving.

Technical scuba diving on Koh Tao Thailand

Image; Alaskan William Hudson gets to grips with a twin set and side tank.
Despite some challenging moments in training, the guys have turned out as competent deep air divers. They’re both now qualified to undertake decompression dives to 50 metres, using multiple tanks and nitrox blends up to 100% O2 for accelerated decompression.

Gap year scuba diving on Koh Tao Thailand

Image; William on the deco bar during an Extended Range Diver training dive

At the end of their Extended Range Course we put their skills to the test, taking them on the South China Sea Dive Expedition (see below). They both got to enjoy diving on the HMS Repulse, right down to 50 metres.Gap year scuba diving in Thailand

Image; Remove and staging deco cylinders on the ERD course

Congrats to both William & Leona, and thanks to Ginger Ayres for providing the photos.

If you’re interested in getting into tec diving, whether you’re an experienced diver or not, contact DJL diving and we can discuss the best options for you.

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