Our gap year internship includes all courses from beginner up to PADI Divemaster.

You'll also receive all required diving manuals, your own full set of scuba equipment to keep, unlimited diving during the internship and student materials (for example dive planning tables) plus all application fees.

Read more: Steps for PADI Divemaster Internship

Getting a Visa for your Scuba Diving Internship in Thailand

Lets now take a look at the visa regulations in Thailand & how to get the best possible visa for your diving internship, plus discuss some frequently asked questions:

If you make no prior arrangements & fly straight into Thailand you'll be issued with a 30 day 'Visa On Arrival'. Since the duration of the internship is several months you'll make 'visa runs' in order to remain in Thailand.

This means crossing the border out of Thailand, then re-entering to receive another 30 day tourist visa. It takes one and a half days of constant traveling to get to Burma and back and costs around 2,000 baht. This is ok, but there is a cheaper and easier way of doing things.

Much better is to apply for a one year Non - Immigrant B education visa. This allows you to remain in Thailand for 90 days at a time, only making a visa run every three months.

The best way to get this is to apply for it at a Thai consulate in your country of origin.

You'll need a couple of documents from us (which we can fax or e-mail to you). There is an application fee but it works out much better than going down the 'visa on arrival' route.

You need to contact your local Thai consulate for the exact fee, but expect it to be a little over 100 US dollars.

Our advice is don't leave things till the last minute - sometimes these things take a while to organize so be proactive.