Yes that’s right, 4 PADI Open Water students, 2 Divemasters and 1 Instructor from Davy Jones Locker were lucky enough to swim alongside a 5 metre Whale Shark on the students’ second ever dive! The gentle giant was spotted during an afternoon dive at White Rock. What a great way for the 4 students to be introduced to the world of scuba diving, lets hope that the biggest fish in the sea stick around and provide this amazing experience for many more DJL divers!
We are happy to announce that with the opening of Koh Tao
Always open with 24hrs security
Clean & comfortable accommodation in a great location
After a 'hard' weeks diving kick back and party on a Friday evening at the Pool Party
A big Congratulations to January’s IDC candidates, Harry (England) and Bastiaan (Holland) on becoming PADI Instructors. The guys passed with flying colours clocking up the highest IE scores to date. Both are continuing their dive careers as Master Scuba Diver Trainees and we wish them every success. Thanks to Pete, DJL’s course director for training Harry and Bastiaan and maintaining an excellent pass rate!
So.. I was sat in a pub havin a pint and reading the paper. It was Sunday afternoon, it was raining and I was in my home town, Derby. My mind was wandering, I’d been working a lot of hours saving up for a trip to South America, when my attention was suddenly drawn towards an advert in the travellers section. It read something along the lines of ‘DiveMaster Internships, Koh Tao, Thailand.
Now I’d done a little bit of this diving lark and always loved it so I gave the number a ring pretty much straight away and was given all the info I needed; full instruction up to Divemaster, materials, accommodation, my own gear, break-dancing lessons (I’m still waiting for them actually), and all this at a dive school called Davy Jones Locker. A couple of months later, on a sunny Monday morning I arrived on Koh Tao and was taken straight to the dive school. Now I was excited but a little apprehensive about what I’d got myself into. However, I was greeted by the lovely Rosalyn and Luke who quickly sorted me out with my accommodation and made me feel right at home.
Three months, four whale sharks and a ton of parties later I was qualified as a Divemaster… hooray! Ok so my intentions at this point were to continue with my original plan of goin to South America, but in what must’ve been a moment of madness, the good people at Davy Jones Locker offered me a job. I’d be working with my friends, on a beautiful island doing something I love…why not? After seven amazing months of ‘work’ I started to think about the next step, instructor. I hooked up with Pete the PADI Course Director at Davy Jones. After a lot of hard work on my part and a lot of patience on his he got me through my Instructor Development Course [IDC]. Thanks Pete! I passed my Instructor Exam with flying colours and am now working as the shop Divemaster/Instructor. Honestly, a bad day for me is 5metres visibility, a cloudy sky, maybe havin to write a blog. On a good day pretty much anything is possible, and to think that just over a year ago I was sat in that pub in Derby.
Neil Draycott
Hi my name’s Steven I’m from Scotland and I have just completed my open water to dive master course, or zero to hero as it’s known at DJL, I was working in Singapore before I came here and fancied going somewhere for a holiday before I went home and I saw this course on the real gap website so I decided that I would have a holiday and get a qualification at the same time. DJL is a really good dive school it’s not the biggest dive school but I think that’s part of it’s charm, everyone knows you which helps with meeting new people and girls…, the training I got was second to none and all the instructors are a fine bunch of guys and girls Alex, Callum, Emil ,Fred, Hanna, James, Luke and last but not least Si 
, special thanks to Tim for letting me do the intro to tech with him, nice to know that you’re in safe hands at 45.2 meters don’t think I’ll laugh so much underwater again. I would recommend taking the course to anyone because it’s a great experience and if I can manage to pass anyone can! Haha, the hardest part is just saying good bye to all the people who have became my friends over the past 3 months.
Cheers guys have a laucow for me at the bar!
Steven aka Scotland
