Posts by Simon

Cobia mistaken as shark at Hin Pee Wee

By Simon, 5 July, 2011, 1 Comment

During the morning of 26th DJL was doing their first dive of the day at one of the local deep dive sites Hin Pee Wee just off sairee beach. As we jumped in to the water and took a quick glance below we could see straight away we were in for a great dive as the visibility was amazing at least 30 meters. Once we had descended me and my open water group headed south just beyond the pinnacle as I looked below I noticed a fishing box net and a large shadow moving along the bottom. I turned to my student and pointed for them to look down, at first we thought it was a shark as I have seen black tips around that area many years ago, but I could not see any black on the tip of the dorsal fin and it was difficult to tell what it exactly it was as I was at 17m and the “shark” was at about 25m. During the dive we were being filmed and the videographer had caught the “shark” on camera, when we got back to the shop we checked the footage but we were still unclear what the un identified fish was and due to the shape of the face I was starting to believe it could be a very big Cobia. The following day DJL went to the same dive site again and there was another sighting in the same place. This morning I was teaching Deep Specialty with the Divemasters which was great so I could get deep and get a better glimpse! We were correct it was not a shark it was a Cobia. A Cobia is not from the Shark family but from the Tuna family this is due its extended elongated dorsal fin which means it denotes it to the Tuna family. Hopefully this cobia will keep hanging around at Hin Pee Wee because he’s very interesting to look at.

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New Divemasters

By Simon, 2 August, 2010, No Comment

5 new Divemasters on Koh Tao. Beau, Tom, Joe, Harry and Sarah arrived at Davy Jones Locker 2 months ago. All 5 signed up to for the Divemaster Internship which is the first step in the professional ladder. The guys studied hard, learning how to demonstrate skills and leading dives. Once the guys completed the course we celebrated with DJL famous snorkel test. Were the guys dressed up as cave men and participated in a lot of silly games and drinking! The DJL team would like to say a well done to the guys and good luck for the future.

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Nitrox and Deep Spec

By Simon, 18 April, 2010, No Comment

DJL Divemaster interns Dan and Lasse completed their Nitrox and Deep specialty course which is just some of the extra courses Davy Jones Locker have to offer. During the Divemaster course Si and Alex (DM Instructors) offer specialty of the month at a cheaper price to the Divemaster interns which gives them the opportunity to progress in there diving and increases there diving credentials. We run specialty such as Wreck, Search and Recovery, DPV and many more. The most common specialty’s is the Deep and Nitrox course due to the fact that once you have completed your Divemaster you are able to take your fun divers if also qualified, on Nitrox or take them Deep and more important its fun.

The course is run over 3 days.

Day 1 Nitrox and Deep academics

Day 2 Dive 1 & 2 (0n Nitrox 32% & 36%)

Day 3 Dive 3 (40m) & 4 (30m)

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Divemaster Internship

By Simon, 16 February, 2010, No Comment

Another 2 New certified Divemasters successfully completed their Divemaster internship at DJL. Adrian Cole and Heesham Garroun both from Australia have just spent the past 2 – 4 months working hard and enjoying the great diving Koh Tao has to offer. The guys came as novice divers but after lots of swim tests, assits, lectures, skill circuits and leading dives, the two aussies excelled themselves as excellent Divemasters. After completing the course Adrian also continued his further education and completed his Videography course and provided some fun wacky dive videos.

Myself and the rest of the DJL team would like to congratulate the boys and wish them every success in the future.

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