Koh Tao Marine Environmental Interships

Dive Careers Koh Tao offers Marine Ecology Research courses in conjunction with CORE Sea, Koh Phangan. This is a great chance to get your dive education off to a great start on Koh Tao and get a great understanding of the marine environment with the Research Diver courses conducted by CORE. We have great packages combining COREs environmental training with  Dive Careers divemaster and dive instructor internships. We aim to encourage and promote a strong environmental awareness and understanding with our dive professioanl programmes.

 

 

 

Core Research Diver
10 Days/ 10 Dives

In-depth training on current marine research and sampling techniques for scientists, students of marine biology/ zoology/ ecology, bio-geo-chemistry and oceanography or people interested in going beyond recreational diving and assisting in scientific field-work.
College Credit: Course is designed in compliance with the European ECTS system as part of "General Studies" and is usually credited with 3 CP.
  

Field training Includes:
-planning, preparation and execution of research/ sampling campaigns
-advanced gas planning and safety protocols
-advanced mapping and imaging of marine structures (transects, grids, chain-profile and adv. patterns)
-specialized buoyancy techniques; equipment handling and lifting devices
-Tec-Intro
sampling techniques for water, sediments, planktonic and nektonic organisms
-laboratory internship
-intro to analysis and documentation of field samples
-participation in current research projects
-lectures on: reef classification, coral and aquatic animal physiology, ecology and all methods used in the course

By the end of this course participants will be able to design sampling campaigns independently and execute them safely.

Course fee includes: travel to and from Koh Phangan, thai style bungalow accomodation (2 p.p. room), WiFi internet access, tea, coffee and course manuals on cd/dvd.

This course costs 600Euro - Book now
 

Basic Research diver
Dive training and Intro to current marine research and sampling techniques for scientists, students of marine biology/ zoology/ ecology, bio-geo-chemistry and oceanography or people interssted in going beyond recreational diving and assisting in scientific field-work.
Field training Includes
-planning, preparation and execution of research/ sampling campaigns
-advanced mapping and imaging techniques of marine structures (transects, grids and adv. patterns)
-specialized buoyancy techniques, equipment handling and lifting devices
-sampling techniques for water, sediments, planktonic and nektonic organisms
-lectures on: reef classification, coral and aquatic animal physiology, ecology and used methods

Course fee includes: travel to and from Koh Phangan, Thai style bungalow accomodation (2 p.p. room), WiFi internet access, tea, coffee and course manuals on cd/dvd.

Dives 3 Beach, 2 Sailrock

Those courses are a mix between marine ecology and pure research techniques.

This shorter course costs 380Euro.  Book Now.