PADI Dive Instructor Internships

IDC Internships on Koh Tao, Thailand

• Buddha View is a successful dive center.  Koh Tao is a vibrant and growing dive industry. Be part of that success and start your career on the right track. That is real job opportunity.
• 100% success guarantee for the PADI Dive Instructor Exam
• All of your courses will be taught by experienced and successful PADI Dive instructors
• FREE Dive Careers Pack with all on line bookings
• All PADI and IDC materials included
• Courses start everyday
• Access to PADI e-learning FREE of charge and unique IDC on-line learning
• Materials home delivered
• Paperwork for student visa supplied
• Includes bus and boat ticket from Bangkok to Koh Tao, reception at office in Bangkok
• Recompression insurance from Badalveda Recompression Chamber Network
• basic PADI Enriched Air training and materials
• PADI Enriched Air Diving Instructor course and materials
• Basic PADI oxygen Provider materials and training
• PADI Oxygen Provider Instructor course, materials and certification
• Marine Resource Management seminar and naturalist workshops
• Unlimited diving before the Dive Instructor Development programme
• PADI Emergency First Response Instructor and Care For Children Instructor
• PADI Dive Instructor Pack and EFRI manual
• Rebreather and tech diving introduction
• Diving Medical
• All PADI certification fees
• Your choice of Dive Equipment Packages
• Your choice of accommodation packages
• Optional Videography Diver Specialty
• Optional Dive Resort Management course
• Optional liveaboard diving experience

• PADI Dive Instructor Course - IDC - This is a 14 day programme before a three day instructor exam conducted by PADI.  Dive Careers and Mark Soworka maintain the best success rate for instructor training on Koh Tao, Thailand. This comprehensive programme includes teaching techniques, academic, confined water and open water presentations plus reviews of PADI dive theory and standards. All of our IDC candidates are guaranteed success on the course and exam, plus a very successful job placement service.  Our course includes FREE of charge PADI Oxygen Provider Instructor and PADI Marine Resource Management Instructor, plus Enriched Air Diving Instructor. All PADI application and membership fees are included, plus all PADI materials and Dive Careers training pack.  Our dive instructor candidates also have free access to our unique e-learning. All of our candidates have FREE diving before the IDC, a chance to assist courses, get in some dives and build up experience before the IDC.  Download here the complete information booklet about our programme. Prerequisite training is PADI Divemaster or equivalent

• PADI Divemaster Course - DMT - Our Divemaster internship includes unlimited diving really giving you the chance to develop loads of experience and confidence with leading dives and assisting courses.  A Dive Careers Divemaster internship allows you to immerse yourself in a scucessful and vibrant dive industry.  During your internship we schedule a special ten day programme that guarantees you get a thorough understanding of dive theory, problem solving and dive control.  This programme ensures you get the best dive professional training in Thailand. During this programme we also include FREE of charge with all of our Dive Careers internships PADI Oxygen Provider and PADI Marine Resource Management specialties, plus Enriched Air Diver and materials.  All PADI application and membership fees are included, plus all PADI materials and Dive Careers training pack.  Our dive instructor candidates also have free access to our unique e-learning.  Download here the complete information booklet about our programme. Prerequisite training is PADI Rescue Diver or equivalent, plus CPR First Aid training within the past 24months. 

• PADI Marine Resource Management - FREE - Included in all Dive Careers internships, this reef ecology seminar and dives are tailored towards the dive professional, giving a basic understanding of how the reef works, plus techniques and tips to use when teaching and guiding divers to ensure an interest and concern for reef preservation, plus environmentally aware diver behaviour. 

• PADI Enriched Air Diver - Nitrox - Enriched Air Diving allows you to extend your time by replacing nitrogen with elevated levels of oxygen.  This is a stepping stone to all technical diving.  The Enriched Air course and PADI materials are included with our Dive Careers Internships.  

• PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider Course -  This knowledge and the certification is important to all dive professionals for liabiltiy protection and for finding employment.  Oxygen Provider course and materials are included in all of our Dive internships. 

• Technical Diving Introduction - FREE - Included in our internships is a seminar about technical diving and the chance to try out technical dive gear with a free shallow water session.  It is  chance to orient yourself to a growing part of the dive industry. 

• PADI EFR & Rescue Diver Course - The Rescue and EFR courses develop basic first aid skills plus diver rescue scenarios.  This course really builds confidence as a diver.  We overview diver physiology and oxygen administration, but spend most of the time in the water practicing realistic scenarios to give you the confidence to solve problems for other divers.  Includes Rescue manual, slate and EFR Participant manual.  Prerequisite certification is PADI Advanced or equivalent. 

• PADI Advanced Open Water Course - This five dive course will introduce you to different specialties that you can experience as a diver.   From deep diving Chumporn with massive potato cod, to night diving White Rock with barracuda hunting by torchlight this course gives you the chance to see the different types of diving you will be able to pursue during your internship.  This course includes the Adventures in Diving manual and slate.  Prerequisite certificaiton is PADI Open Water Diver or equivalent. 

• PADI Open Water Diver Course - This is your entry level diver course and will take you from your first breaths on SCUBA in the controlled environment of our swimming pool through to four exciting dives on some of Koh Tao's most exciting dive sites.  Buddha View Dive Resort, virtually alone on Koh Tao, give our open water divers an extra shallow water session, working on your buoyancy control in one of the calm bays of Koh Tao.  This ensures that you complete the Open Water Diver course relaxed and confident with your diving. 

• PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer Internhsip - after your IDC you can become confident with your real world teaching skills assisting experienced instructors, gaining mor ethan 25 certificaitons and completing PADI specialty training.  This programme helps make you a very employable and confident instructor.  Includes all PADI fees. Click here for more information

• Dive Videograper Internhsip with professional Videographer trainers with more than a decade of experience,  giving you the skills to work as an underwater videographer. Click here for more information

• Dive Resort Management Training This course develops skills to help place you as a dive center manager.  Interning at Buddha View Dive Resort, one of the most successful dive resorts in the world, will give yout he experience and knowledge necessary to be a successful dive center manager.  Click here for more information

• PADI IDC Staff Instructor As an MSDT you can enroll in a PADI IDC Staff Instructor course.  You will assist an IDC developing the counselling and evaluation skills that will give you the experience to teach Assistant Dive Instructors.  Click here for more information

• Similans Liveaboard Experience Combined with your Dive Careers internship on Koh Tao, this liveaboard experience will give you the chance to develop experience and contacts interning for a week on a Similans liveaboard.  Wolrd Class diving and valuable experience for job placement.  Click here for more information

• Koh Tao Accommodation A selection of discount deals for monthly accommodation on Koh Tao, with choices from budget to luxury. Click here for more information

• Dive Equipment Package Discounted equipment packages for Dive Careers Divemaster and Dive Instructor Internships.  Great savings.  Click here for more information