Archive for March, 2012

You know you are a scuba diver when…

By , 31 March, 2012, No Comment

1 Every time you get on a plane you equalize your ears by pinching your nose and gently blowing.

2 You can’t say O.K without making the sign.

3 You always go up stairs slowly to reduce the risk of DCI.

4 You refer to your favourite jumper as ‘thermal protection’

5 You want to go to the sea side even when the sun isn’t shining.

6 You have a ‘suit tan’ and a permanent mask imprint on your face.

7 When people ask you ’what is your favourite fish?’  You don’t say ‘cod and chips’.

8 You don’t think DCI symptoms is a character on The Bill.

9 You are not afraid of sharks

10 You know that Davy Jones Locker is the greatest dive school in the world!

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Advance Open water course

By , 30 March, 2012, No Comment

Here at Davy Jones Locker we teach a variety of courses. One of my favourites to teach is the advance course.

The advance course takes 2 days and is 5 dives. Two of the dives are mandatory, underwater navigation adventure dive and the deep adventure dive. The rest though you get to choose.
We do recommend certain dives but it is your choice from the list of many adventure dives. At DJL with our team of experienced and vastly qualified instructors will be able to help you make your decision on what you want to do.
The advance course is a great course to do and gives you the next step in your diving career by being able to go to 30 metre and giving you valuable underwater experience.

Why not come and upgrade your open water and have a great time with our great team.

Tom

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Advanced Open Water – The next step

By , 29 March, 2012, No Comment

Here at Davy Jones Locker we teach a variety of courses. One of my favourites to teach is the advanced course.

The advanced course takes 2 days and is 5 dives. Two of the dives are mandatory, underwater navigation adventure dive and the deep adventure dive. The rest though you get to choose.

We do recommend certain dives but it is your choice from the list of many adventure dives.  At DJL with our team of experienced and vastly qualified instructors will be able to help you  make your decision on what you want to do.

The advance course is a great course to do and gives you the next step in your diving career by being able to go to 30 metre and giving you valuable underwater experience.

Why not come and upgrade your open water and have a great time with our great team.

Tom

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Got the need for speed?

By , 27 March, 2012, No Comment

DJL's High Speed Rib

DJL’s high speed RIB returned to service on Koh Tao to offer something very different.

The DJL RIB, named ‘The Carpathia’ is a Rigid Inflatable Boat, or RIB for short. The RIB concept was originally designed by Rear Admiral Desmond Hoare of the Atlantic college, who sold the patent to the RNLI for £1. Used in the United Kingdom as inshore lifeboats for decades, due their high speed and safety, RIBs make an ideal great dive platform. RIBs consist of a rigid fibreglass hull, bonded to a multi cell inflatable tube.

The Carpathia is powered by twin Yamaha 85hp 2 stroke outboard motors, which can carry her at an exhilarating 27 knots even when laden with divers and equipment, the RIB opens up possibilities of quickly and conveniently whisking divers to the dive site of their choice. Carrying smaller groups and being faster, we are able to tailor the choice of dive site to suit you, meaning we can offer Koh Tao’s only truly ‘a la carte’ diving shuttle service. Want to go to a dive site no one else is going to? No problem! Just let us know and we can arrange it for you. Fancy a technical diving trip to one of the many deep wrecks in the region, we can accommodate you. Keep an eye on the RIB trip board to see what trips are scheduled, or here on the DJL forum for updates.

DJL will also be offering boat handling courses for those interested in learning seamanship skills, consisting of both theory and practical boat handling experience, the boat handling course teaches you how to operate a RIB for diving operations, including dropping in and picking up divers, dropping and recovering shot lines, manoeuvring skills, emergency skills including man overboard procedures, coming alongside, anchoring and collision avoidance. Working towards a career in diving? Add something a little different to you CV with a boat handling qualification.

Ed Bosworth, DJL Diving

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Turtles are around!

By , 24 March, 2012, No Comment

Been a good couple of weeks here on Koh Tao, lots of new and experienced divers visiting the island, some here to start diving and many taking their diving to the next level.

We have also had a lot see in the water which is always great! Turtles definitely seem to be showing up more. I’ve seen 3 in the past 2weeks, all at different sites and doing different activities. Saw a small hawksbill turtle swimming towards the beach over the sand-patch at Mango Bay on an open water course, a green turtle going to bed at White Rock doing a night adventure dive and another hawksbill (maybe the same one from Mango Bay) at Red Rock on the way back to Japanese Gardens… glad to see them around, especially as we’re on Turtle Island!

It’s not just the turtles that are around, we’ve also seen sea-snakes and a couple whale sharks have been seen at Chumpers… first ones in a while!

Still waiting for the elusive bull sharks…

Now all I need to do as soon as possible is head down to Koh Lipe to do some of the spectacular diving that’s on offer down there, really looking forward to it!

Don Dornbrack

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