Thailand PADI Divemaster Internships, Instructor Training, Ko Tao

Koh Tao Thailand PADI Divemaster interenships with simple life

Scuba Instructor or PADI Divemaster Internship - Which is for you?

Koh Tao Thailand PADI Divemaster internships

People join our diving internships from many different backgrounds, with differing budgets, schedules and objectives. For this reason we offer a number of different scuba diving internships on Koh Tao, so you can pick the one which suits you best.

Here's some general information about how the scuba internships run, the steps involved in the PADI training, and what each qualification allows you to do.

PADI Training on Koh Tao: Scuba Diving Internships

Simple Life's gap year dive internship programs follow PADI's diver education system.

PADI is the biggest and most recognized diver training agency in the world, so gaining a professional PADI qualification such as Divemaster or Open Water Scuba instructor puts you in a great position no matter where you travel.

First here's a flowchart which illustrates the order of the main PADI courses:

PADI flowchart for Koh Tao scuba diving internships to Divemaster and Instructor

Thailand dive boat for PADI divemaster internships

In brief, the further along the PADI ladder you go, the greater your opportunities and earning potential. However, each step requires you to build up more scuba diving experience, undertake more training and will obviously requires a greater investment of time and money!

Here's a comparison of our most popular dive internship packages - you can compare the duration, cost, and what you'll be qualified to do by the end of the gap year diving internship. Click on each to read full details.

[N.B. The information in this table assumes you're starting from beginner i.e. no previous dive certification. If you're already a certified diver we can reduce the duration and cost - see already a certified PADI diver].

Title	Duration	Price	What you'll be qualified to do
PADI Divemaster Internships	2 Months	125,000 baht	Guide certified divers on underwater tours, conduct refresher sessions for 'rusty' divers and organised diving logistics.
PADI Divemaster Internship + 5 specialties	10 weeks	145,000	As above, plus you'll be certified to dive to 40M, using enriched air (nitrox) mixes to extend your bottom time, plus will have great experience in equipment maintenance, navigation and fish ID.
PADI Divemaster + Underwater Videography Internship	3 months	185,000	Same as DM, plus you'll be trained to shoot, edit, produce and sell high quality underwater movies, and will get paid gap year work as part of the dive internship.
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor Internship	7 months	260,000	Most in demand dive professionals, qualified to teach all PADI courses, up to and including PADI Divemaster.
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer Internship	8 months	340,000	Same as OWSI, plus able to teach specialty courses (deep, nitrox diver, navigation etc), and has already taught at least 25 scuba certifications.
PADI IDC Staff Instructor Internship	9 Months	email us	Same as MSDT, plus can assist in the training of new PADI Instructors.

Instructor & Divemaster Internships with Simple Life Divers, Koh Tao

Thailand gap year Divemaster internships

Whichever dive internship you choose you'll be sure to learn lots and have a great time here at Simple Life Divers, Koh Tao.

You'll get to work together with the rest of our team of experienced western PADI Instructors and Divemasters, assisting in the training of new divers, helping out with diving logistics and becoming part of the Simple Life team. Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime!

PADI Divemaster Internships Testimonial: Davoc

Padi Divemaster internship in Koh Tao Thailand

Name: Davoc Bradley

From: England

Prior to the Divemaster Internship: Travelling around Japan

Life on Koh Tao: I've spent 8 months of my life on Koh Tao in total, split over two seperate occasions, I love Koh Tao as a place. It's amazingly beautiful, amazingly goof fun, filled with amazing people, and amazingly good looking women! AMAZING!

Be cool, don't rub people up the wrong way, enjoy yourself, but don't be an idiot, don't hire a quad bike EVER, be careful when you're riding your bike (you don't want the Koh Tao Tattoo) and finally, go diving with Simple Life!

The Divemaster Training: Leading people was good fun, I really enjoyed being able to show people where cool stuff was, and taking out a big group on someones birthday, finding sharks at chumphon, then seeing the turtle at white rock attacking a jelly fish was pretty amazing for my first solo lead...I was very lucky because the guys I lead were experienced divers, and made it all quite easy for me.

The swim test was fun, we ended up doing it out in the sea, and had to deal with waves and currents. When you do it in Engalnd you do it in a swimming pool, where is the fun in that?
Padi Divemaster Thailand Assisting the instructors in training new students can be hard! You're still learning how to deal with people, and sometimes it's easy to miss something important. The key is to make sure you don't get distracted, and concentrate 100% on the divers you're supposed to be there to help.

The underwater equipment exchange (stress test) was really good fun, enjoyed it a lot. I was lucky because I was already a qualified tech diver when I did my stress test, so it was a lot of fun to do the stress test.
I saw a load of sharks, but never dived with a whale shark unfortunately. One day!

Food and Nightlife: The food is great on koh toa, but you have to chose the right places to eat. Tuktas is my favorite place to eat on Koh Tao, it's brilliant thai food!

The night life is great, you can have any night you want, from a nice relaxed one, through to a crazy one at the castle until silly o'clock in the morning!

I’ve been a few times to the Phangan Full Moon Party. I really enjoy it, best idea is to stay sober and watch the carnage!!

Funny Stories: Every day in Koh Tao is fun!

What Next I design software.

Have dived quite a lot, I've now moved onto diving on a closed circuit reabreather. I've done a lot of diving in the UK, Malta and very deep diving in the gulf of Thailand wreck diving.

It has changed my outlook on life, I know much more clearly that the most important thing in life is to have fun with friends, and on Koh Tao you will always be able to do that.

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