Divemaster Internships | Thailand

Witness Fantastic Marine Life around Koh Tao, Thailand

The coral reefs & pinnacles around Koh Tao, Thailand are home to an amazing variety of tropical marine life.

By taking your scuba diving internship on Koh Tao, you'll get to see masses of colorful reef fish such as butterfly, angel & parrotfish, plus wrasses, triggerfish and more.

We've got lots of larger pelagic species - trevelly and barracuda plus you can see even bigger fish such as Giant Grouper and decent sized bull & grey reef sharks. There's also cuttle fish & squid around the Koh Tao Dive Sites.

The highlight for many divers are the massive [harmless] whale sharks which visit Koh Tao. Around the island we've seen whale sharks up to 7-8 metres in length. Spectacular!

For sure you'll want to borrow one of our digital underwater cameras! See our 'Koh Tao Scuba Diving Sites' page for more info.

A Very Experienced International Diving Team

Our dive instructors are some of the most experienced in Asia.

The DJL Diving instructors have taught all over the world. Two of the senior instructors have more than 15 years experience working in diving - even our youngest instructor [23 years old] has over 4 years experience teaching scuba diving.

Our instructors have previous working experience all over Thailand, Asia & Europe. This brings a wide breath of diving knowledge to the DJL Diving Team.

Each instructor has their own areas of interest - combined this gives us a massive teaching resource. In addition to the core elements of your dive internship [e.g. learning to dive / Divemastering etc] we able able to provide:

Technical Deep Diving
Instructor Training
Wreck Diving
Powerboat / small boat handling
Compressor & Boat Maintenance
Digital Underwater Photography & Videography
First aid / CPR / Oxygen Administration
Search & Recovery

Most courses are taught in English, but we also provide courses in Spanish, Dutch, French & German.

Doing your Divemaster Internship here, you'll be mentored by one instructor [who'll make sure you're looked after] but will get the opportunity to work with all our instructors.

Taking your dive internship with DJL, means our experienced team of instructors can give you the best possible chance of becoming a great dive pro. Plus you'll have a great time learning.

'Standing Out from the Crowd' | DJL Dive Boats

In this part of the world, most people dive from converted fishing boats. There are many reasons for this - the boats are affordable to buy and convert for diving, plus the Thai's have a lot of experience driving and maintaining them, which makes life easy.

The DJL 'Big Boat' is a 16 metre converted fishing boat - we've fitted tank racks and tanks to accommodated around 20 divers, added an onboard air compressor so there's no heavy carrying plus included all the other necessary item [emergency oxygen, western toilet, sun deck, cooking/drinks facility . . .].

Even better we also have a very high speed Rigid Inflatable Boat. Weighing only about 650 kg, it's propelled by twin Yamaha outboards at speeds up to 36 knots - putting that in perspective that's approximately 6 x faster than most of the other boats around Koh Tao. This gives us a really exciting option for experienced divers - you can get out to the best dive sites fast, plus have a great option for dive exploration trips.

Taking your PADI Divemaster internship with DJL gets you diving off both our boats.

Great Diversity of Koh Tao Dive Sites

With regard to diversity of dive sites, Koh Tao has a lot to offer.

Close to the island we have shallow coral reefs, where you can see lots of tropical reef species. Further out we've got isolated pinnacles, that host our bigger fish such as the Chumphon & Southwest Pinnacles.

Even more remote we have deep shipwrecks, such as the Unicorn & Torpedo [Thai Cargo Ships] or a Japanese WW2 Schooner. With DJL you get the chance to dive these wrecks.

The distance to our dive sites is short, so this allows a lot of scuba diving options - we run at least 2 dive trips every day. We make an big effort to rotate around the dive sites so you see more! If you want to read more about the dive sites see our 'Koh Tao Scuba Diving Sites' page.

On the next page we'll examine what kind of people take a scuba diving gap year internship, and discuss the social side of becoming a PADI Divemaster in Koh Tao Thailand.