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Frankie joins the DJL diving team

By frankie, 3 December, 2009, No Comment

So began my new lease of life at Davy Jones Locker on the 1st of November and what a month it has been. Well at least there are blessings of having worked on Koh Tao for a while and having done my technical diving with the company.  I didnt have to learn a million new names! Of course though, it always takes a bit of time to get used to how a new shop works and their way of doing things. Luckily the team were all really great and helped me to adjust.

So after getting settled in, it was time to start teaching.  This was to be my first opportunity to use my BSAC instructor qualification which of course is always a little nerve racking but with some hard work I had high hopes of producing some exciting new divers.  So indeed it proved, because as I was teaching my first pool session the weather took a turn for the worse.  In came the wind!!  Well after a couple of shallow shore dives we were ready to head out to the big boat. The conditions were not perfect,  but when are they.  No problems for my student Marie though who was in the water and descending like a pro within a matter of minutes. She was clearly progressing into a confident and competent diver.  Watching  her develop from what had been a nervous new diver into one taking charge and able to monitour herself and others under water always gives you great satisfaction and we all wish her all the best in the future.

As the month continued I was able to keep that ball rolling and I have to congratulate the lovely Chloe and Sian on completeing their Sports Diver course. This included a wonderful job of briefing and leading me around Twins on what was only their tenth dive. A really impressive achievment and one of which they should be extemely proud.  They also managed to provide some hysterical moments, that I will never forget.  Just ask poor Ian about being rescued by these two young ladys.  Nonetheless they perservered and turned out to be enthusiastic learners and great fun to teach. So Chloe now its time for your Boat Handling, eh.

All in all though it has been productive and enjoyable first month and lets hope there will be many more. You will be hearing from me soon………….

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new gapyear internship options

By tim, 3 December, 2009, No Comment

After the overwelming success of our internship program this year DJL are proud to announce a new catagory option that will involve learning about the ecology of the reefs around Koh Tao and basic surveying techniques. It will help us to accurately record and track the impact divers and eco tourism have on the reefs in this area, giving us a different slant on diving here. The program will give our students valuable skills to take on to schools in other regions around Asia so we can better understand the impact eco tourism has on these fragile environments. The program is to be called Eco Diver and will be running alongside our very popular Divemaster Internship Program for the summer of 2010. Look out for the full itinerary on our website. Batfish

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New Look For DJL bar

By tim, 1 December, 2009, No Comment

The Monsoon has been very light this year so theres been a lot of great diving being done which has left less time for getting the bar ready for another high season, but with time moving on we have been thinking of themes for the bar and have decided to go with the old theme of shipwrecks. Using the pieces collected over 20 years of looking for wrecks that we had originally displayed in the museum on Koh Tao that we closed when the shop moved to Sairee beach, as our philosophy has always been to display to the public the compasses and portholes ect with the history and picture of the shipwreck so that its memory can be preserved and the lessons learnt from it loss better understood by future seafairers, instead of leaving the artifacts locked away in a cupboard to deteriorate over the years. We feel this will be a visually stimulating and educational asset to the DJL group and give a fantastic backdrop to the parties we have all enjoyed here over the past years.

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Wreck Discovery – Straits of Malacca

By Ollie the Spaniard, 24 November, 2009, No Comment

A team of divers from Davy Jones Locker recently located a shipwreck in the Penang straits of Malacca. The wreck is of a currently unknown cargo vessel of approximately 2500BRT.

After chartering a local fishing boat the team of technical divers from DJL accidentally discovered the wreck after searching for a wreck of a WW2 British submarine.

The cargo vessel sits at 60m and has a huge crane lying next to the main hold of the ship. The cargo has spilled into the sand around the crane as a result of sinking. The bridge sits upright and has nets flying from its mast as if clawing for the surface.

The team also located and identified a Japanese submarine and a large boiler from a steamship believed to have fallen foul to a British submarine.

The team comprised of Fri, Jeremy, Tim 2 and was led by Tim Lawrence from Davy Jones’ Locker, all of whom plan to resume the search to identify the vessel as soon as possible

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