.: Dive Master Internships
PADI Dive Courses up to Divemaster - for free. Get Rescue and Divemaster course for free in exchange for divemastering for a certain time for us.
Are you an enthusiastic water sport fan or already a diver? Are you dreaming about staying for a while on a paradise island and go diving daily? Would you like to spend a good measure of time in a tropical environment? We are looking for divers and non-divers who would like to get a diving education up to Divemaster.
We are accepting people from beginning of October till beginning of February who would like to continue their diving education, become a professional and take the opportunity to gain valuable real world experience. (Non-divers will have to pay for the 3-4 day beginner course and the 2 day advanced course.)
The education up to Divemaster takes place over 3-4 weeks and after that a working off period is required according to your certification level at the beginning of the internship.
A Divemaster candidate will be thoroughly familiarized with customer service, dive planning, in water supervision, equipment maintenance and servicing and many more aspects of being a pro. This experience along with the fact that the intern will have worked as a Divemaster allows us to issue a job reference to successful candidates. The offered program will also ensure experience is gained with PADI diving courses by assisting our instructors (planning, conducting and course standards). Therefore, if afterwards the aim is to become a diving instructor the preparation is already done!
Your own equipment is not required; but if a candidate is interested we offer a special price through our trade contacts. However the piece of equipment a candidate needs to buy is a dive computer!
At the end of the program a candidate will have at least 100 - 150 dives.
Highlights: Living on one of the most beautiful and famous islands in the world - enjoying the culture and living style of the Thai society in a tropical environment and at the same time experience a completely new world - the incredible variety of the aquatic realm of the Andaman sea. Many internship candidates have by the end of the program seen almost all famous things there are to encounter for divers - from whale sharks, manta rays, various other sharks and turtles to ghost pipe fishes, seahorses and different nudibranchs - not to mention the typical lion fish, scorpion fish and different kind of moray eels. Since the island is such a popular tourist destination you will be in constant contact with all kinds of people from all over the world. Diving being a very social activity - just the team you learn and work with provide an unforgettable time in terms of team work, camaraderie and shared experiences. Everyone that we deal with is of course on holiday hence, happy cheerful and looking to have a great time consequently it`s a fantastic opportunity to meet new people from very diverse walks of life and make new friends. Our team helps create holiday memories for visitors and become part of their memories for life.
* not included: all the required PADI teaching material and a dive computer
Merlin Divers`s Mission Statement: Turning non-divers and already qualified divers into highly experienced and professional PADI Divemaster with the ability afterwards to go to the next professional level - PADI diving instructor.
P.s. es wird kein perfektes English erwartet - grundlegende English Kenntnisse sind aber erwuenscht.
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.: Blog News
February 2009
Manta Madness
Loads of Mantas and excellent Visibiluty at Koh Bon in the Similan National Park
November 2008
New Artificial reef Arrives
MAI KHAO: Amidst great fanfare, a convoy of 15 flatbed trucks loaded with the remains of 10 decommissioned military aircraft arrived at the Tah Chat Chai checkpoint at 2 pm on Sunday after a three-day overland journey that began in Lopburi. The convoy departed from Koke Krathiem Air Force Base in Lopburi with the partly disassembled aircraft on Friday. The arrival of the four Douglas C-47 Dakota Skytrain military transport aircraft and six Sikorsky S-58T helicopters marks the penultimate leg of their final journey before they are sunk in the waters off Bang Tao.
On May 5, the aircraft skeletons are to be dropped into the sea about a kilometer off Bang Tao Beach to create an artificial reef in the hope that it will attract marine life and become a popular new dive site. The aging aircraft, which have been dubbed the “Coral Reef Squadron”, are US-built and served in the Vietnam and Korean Wars, during which Thailand was used as a strategic base for operations during its Cold War fight against communism.
At a depth of about 15 to 20 meters, the aircraft will be arranged in a concentric pattern with two helicopters in the middle. These will be surrounded by an alternating circle of airplane and helicopter fuselages. The wings of the aircraft were clipped at about mid-length and the rotors removed from the helicopters. All dangerous and/or toxic components of the mostly-aluminum remains were removed at the air base before being transported. The entire arrangement, to cover about 2,500 square meters, will sit near an abandoned offshore tin-mining sledge.
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