All Inclusive PADI Divemaster Internship on Tropical Koh Tao
Our PADI Divemaster Internship is an extended diver training program conducted over 1 – 12 months on beautiful Koh Tao in Thailand.
It is an excellent opportunity for non-divers or certified divers who want a change of lifestyle, or for people who are looking to start a new career or it is ideal for students who are considering a GAP year.
There has never been a better time to get away and learn something new, train or re-train with our extended diver training program on our tropical island paradise, Koh Tao.
Signing up for a Scuba Diving Internship
If you decide to sign up for one of our extended Scuba Diving Internships and demonstrate you are committed by paying the program deposit, we will provide you with the ongoing accommodation letter that you require for your visa application.
We will advise you on the steps you need to take to start the visa application process with your local Thai consulate or Thai embassy.
Our Divemaster Scuba Diving Internship offers flexible scheduling, which means you can take as long as you want to complete each component of the program.
Our Divemaster Internship program gives you the opportunity to earn your first Professional level diving certification, working alongside the most experienced professional level development team in scuba diving.
Our pro level team has fine tuned our Divemaster Internship over the past 20 years and have certified thousands of PADI Divemaster candidates and PADI Dive Instructors.
Many of our professional level candidates have successfully gone on to senior roles within the scuba diving industry, including working for PADI.
Learn to become a PADI Divemaster on Koh Tao
Our Divemaster Internship is an all-inclusive personally tailored program aimed at producing a high quality PADI Divemaster.
You will learn what it takes to become a successful Divemaster in the modern and highly competitive scuba diving industry.
You will hone and fine tune your professional level role model dive skills, learn how to demonstrate in-water skills to student level divers and perfect your rescue skill techniques and organizational skills.
What it takes to become a PADI Divemaster
As a role model Dive leader, a PADI Divemaster is expected to lead by example both in their attitude towards others, their profession and diving abilities.
As a PADI pro, a few of the character and personality traits you will need to demonstrate on a daily basis are:
- A great attitude
- Strong communication skills
- Excellent Customer Service skills
- Able to work as part of a team
- Role model behaviour and diving skills (in and out of the water)
If you have answered yes to all of the above and have an interest in pursuing a change of lifestyle or career in scuba diving on a tropical island, we would like to hear from you.
Our PADI Divemaster Internship Package Prices
Full Cost: 84,500 baht (non divers – check our pricing page for more details)
PADI Courses Included in our Divemaster Internship
- PADI Open Water Diver Course
- PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course
- EFR Primary & Secondary Care Course
- PADI Rescue Diver Course
- PADI Divemaster Course
PADI Materials Included in our Divemaster Internship
- PADI e-learning for Open Water, Advanced, EFR & Rescue courses
- PADI Divemaster Crew Pack
PADI Divemaster Crew Pack
- PADI Laptop Bag
- PADI Instructor Manual with 3-Ring Binder
- Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving
- Divemaster Manual
- Divemaster Aquatic cue cards
- Access code for the digital e-RDPml
All scuba equipment rental is included. However, there are pieces of required equipment that we include for you to keep.
- Wrist slate & pencil
- Compass
- SMB & basic finger spool w/stainless steel double ender
- Whistle
- Black Turtle Dive T-shirt (Ocean Explorers | Marine Protectors)
- Eezycut Trilobite knife
- Rescue breathing pocket mask
PADI Educational Materials & Certification Costs
- First Year PADI Membership ($AUS 260)
- Diving Medical
- 1 year DiveAssist Insurance
PADI Divemaster Internship Additional Extras Included
Buoyancy Lab Fluid Mechanics Workshop
To ensure your buoyancy is excellent and of an exceptionally high standard, we include Levels 1-3 of our unique Fluid Mechanics buoyancy workshop with all our Divemaster Internships.
Our Buoyancy Workshop Goals
- Super fine tune your buoyancy
- Perfect control and streamline your trim
- Teach you advanced propulsion & manoeuvring techniques
- Perfect your back finning
- Teach you how to perform dive leadership quality descents and ascents
Reef Ecology & Conservation Program (RECP)
Learn how a Coral reef functions, how it supports an entire ecosystem of life and how life interacts with each another.
Learn about the threats Coral reefs are facing and how our conservation efforts can help by participating in one or more of the following conservation activities that we regularly conduct.
- Reef Ecology & Coral Reef Seminar
- Beach clean-up & Microplastics survey
- Dive site clean-up & Dive Against Debris survey
- Coral Health monitoring survey
Social Media & Online Marketing Workshop
Our social media & online marketing workshop is designed as an introduction into effectively marketing yourself as a dive professional online.
You will have the opportunity to learn how we use different social platforms to promote scuba diving and the various techniques we adopt.
An optional portion of this workshop is for you to complete your own social media project with our full support.
PADI Divemaster Internship Package Price: 84,500 baht
Already a Certified Diver?
- Already Open Water Diver – 76,500 baht
- Already Advanced Open Water Diver – 68,500 baht
- Already Rescue Diver – 54,500 baht – Accommodation Options
Details of our PADI Divemaster Internship
At Black Turtle Dive we strongly believe that all our dive professionals should be able to demonstrate dive skills in a realistic manner, given the nature of the marine environment they will be working in.
To achieve this, we work closely with you through each part of our internship, so that you are able to complete the Divemaster skill circuit neutrally buoyant, which forms part of our unique fluid mechanics buoyancy workshops.
We believe staged skills should be conducted by our Dive Instructors in a manner that is realistic whilst maintaining a normal diving position.
Divemaster Skill Circuits – Neutral Buoyancy
Divers do not kneel on the sea floor to adjust a loose mask strap, it will be performed whilst swimming, neutrally buoyant and this is no different to how we ask our students to learn these important skills.
During your PADI Divemaster Internship you will assist our Dive Instructors who will be conducting all staged skills neutrally buoyant.
Our Divemaster Internship also includes our Reef Ecology workshops that are aimed at providing you with the necessary knowledge to understand how a Coral reef and Marine Ecosystem functions.
You will be taught about the different relationships between marine animals and the threats the Coral reef is facing.
Divemaster Internship – Marine Conservation
This way you can better inform your scuba divers about what they are actually seeing underwater and be able to answer any questions they may have.
Our ethos is that the more our student or certified divers know and understand about the marine environment, the more enjoyment they will get from their dives.
If our students and customers receive the correct information, the more likely it is that they themselves will become responsible marine protectors and aspiring marine conservationists.
Our Divemaster Internship is not only about diving, as the modern diving professional needs to understand the business of diving, just as much as they need to learn how to dive.
Divemaster Internship – Business of Diving
Our Scuba Diving Internship offers marketing workshops designed to show how you can use social media to promote yourself and your diving center.
Becoming a PADI Divemaster is the first step on the Professional ladder for those that are considering a career in the diving industry.
It is our philosophy to train every one of our PADI Divemaster candidates to the high level that we expect of our employees.
Black Turtle Dive Divemaster Internships are ideal for anyone considering a Gap Year and provide you with a well-respected qualification that you can use to travel the world.
Travel the World as a PADI Divemaster
Located on beautiful Koh Tao, our Divemaster internship is an excellent personal development program for people that are looking for a structured educational program to further their diving knowledge, skills and experience.
Our extensive, flexible program provides you with a wealth of knowledge, learning, discovery, adventure and about the marine environment, your new ocean workplace.
Flexible Internship Program
Our PADI Divemaster Internship gives you the opportunity to meet people from all over the world and you will have lots of fun on your journey.
Completing our Divemaster Internship program means you will be trained to the very highest standards, giving you the additional knowledge and skills that will provide you with an edge in the industry.
Divemaster Program with High Training Standards
Once you complete our PADI Divemaster Internship, it will help to make you more employable and allow you to stand out from the rest.
For candidates who plan to work in the diving industry we include a resume workshop that gives best tips on what potential employers are looking for when they read a diving resume.
For candidates who prefer a less intensive program, our flexi-scheduling and student focused approach means you can enjoy the program whilst also exploring the beautiful island of Koh Tao.
A Change of Lifestyle & Career
Our PADI Divemaster Internship on Koh Tao is an excellent choice for non divers who really want a change in their lifestyle or for people who want to pursue a new career.
Now is a great time to either re-train or engage in diver training courses in anticipation of a return to normal international travel.
Living Costs Koh Tao – Divemaster Internship
As a Divemaster candidate on our Internship program, you will be staying with us for some time and Koh Tao provides you with many social activities and alternative things to do for times when you are not in training.
How long you stay with us depends on how flexible you want your training schedule to be and what your plans are for the future.
Our Divemaster Internship package cost covers all the training courses, additional workshops, PADI materials and certification costs.
Outside of these costs, you will need to consider the type of accommodation you want to stay in and living expense costs, such as food, mobile phone, scooter rental and any other social event costs.
Planning for Cost of Living on Koh Tao
If you are a non diver and in training with us, then you need to plan your living expense costs for months ahead.
A good idea and one that we often advise our Divemaster and Diving Instructor candidates, is to set yourself a monthly budget to live on and then you can calculate an approximate cost for the length of your planned stay.
Based on experience an approximate cost to live on Koh Tao comfortably is around 25,000 baht a month, unless of course, you have an extravagant social side and your costs will increase accordingly.
Divemaster Internship Koh Tao – Putting it All Together
If you are a non diver aspiring to become a PADI Divemaster, you will need to pass all the training courses and meet the performance requirements to enrol on the Divemaster course with a valid EFR certificate and a minimum of 40 logged dives.
Through the Open Water, Advanced Open Water and Rescue diver courses, your logged dives will increase and if there is any shortfall to enrol, we will facilitate the fun diving and adventure dives needed.
To be certified as a PADI Divemaster you will need to have logged a minimum of 60 dives, which is easily achievable once you start diving with us.
PADI Specialty Courses as a Divemaster Candidate
Most of our Divemaster candidates also sign up for several of our PADI Specialty courses such as Deep, Wreck, Nitrox and the Underwater Navigator specialty courses.
Specialty courses significantly add to your diving resume, experience, knowledge, fun and adventure as you advance through our course set on your journey to becoming a more competent and confident scuba diver.
PADI Divemaster Internship – Explore Koh Tao
Our PADI Divemaster Internships are action packed, adventurous, exciting and full of fun and learning, so what about Koh Tao?
In between diver training Koh Tao provides you with a multitude of leisurely activities and the only difficulty you will have, is the need to fit it all in.
With a sub tropical climate and set daylight hours every day, you know that you need to be on the west coast for the daily sunsets.
Amazing Koh Tao Sunsets
Considering Koh Tao is only 7 kilometres in length and approximately 2 kilometres wide, on a scooter, this means you can reach anywhere within 15 minutes.
You can choose from a range of locations on the many beaches, high up on a viewpoint or relaxing at one of the many beachside cafés and restaurants.
At many of the beaches around the island you can Kayak, Paddleboard, swim, snorkel or just relax and think about your next diver training session.
Things to do on Koh Tao
For evenings, there are an abundance of bars and restaurants, live music and DJ venues for you to make new friends and discuss scuba diving or put the world to rest.
Koh Tao breathes scuba and if you are looking for the perfect destination to find adventure, a new skill-set and create new international friendships, send us a contact form for more information.
