Another successful Padi Open Water completed, and well done to Rachel, John, Felicity and Nicola.

The guy's arrived from the night boat and were picked up by Ek - our ever dependent taxi driver (with dark sunglasses if its early morning) and taken to the resort. We got the guy's signed up and settled into their rooms. After a day's rest they were ready to start the academics, videos and complete their knowledge reviews.

The following day we headed out to Mango Bay for our shallow confined water skills session. The team handled the skills well and were more than ready for their first dive.

Day 3 of the open water course we finished off two more videos and did the final exam. After a nice lunch break we got our equipment together and made our way to the new and improved Simple Life dive boat, following it's monsoon holiday to the dry dock in Surat-thani. Once we'd run through the dive briefing, we all enjoyed a long dive at Japanese Garden's followed by a dive at Twins. The next morning was a real treat for the guys - we made our way to Chumphon Pinnacle north-west of Koh Tao and had a amazing dive. Visibility was great and we saw five 3 meter bull shark's!

Coming up after the dive the team couldn't contain their excited and totally loved the whole experience. We celebrated their passing of the course with a few drink's at the new Simple Life restaurant. Well done team.

Secondly, to give more information on our PADI Divemaster and scuba instructor internships on Koh Tao, we've launched a Thailand scuba diving internships micro site. The site offers gap year Thailand packages and lots of information about diving internships in Thailand.